Media

IPN News coverage

September 17, 2010
IPN Senior Fellow, Philip Stevens, urges caution about research that shows links education to greater longevity for women.  

IPN News coverage

September 1, 2010
Julian Harris discussed the issues surrounding African medicines “going missing” on World Today, BBC World Service, last night.

IPN News coverage

August 24, 2010
Julian Harris comments on a technological solution to the fake drug problem in Africa.

IPN Opinion article

August 3, 2010
UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started before UNAIDS was set up): Bill Clinton at the international AIDS conference in Vienna attacked the waste of money but this analyst says UNAIDS should just be shut down. In fact, AIDS is not even the top killer in Africa, let alone anywhere else.

IPN Opinion article

August 3, 2010
Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.

IPN News coverage

July 13, 2010
The number of young people infected with HIV in Africa is falling in 16 of the 25 countries hardest hit by the virus, according to a new report by a U.N. agency...

IPN Opinion article

July 8, 2010
I wish Cheryl Cole a speedy recovery, and hope she'll consider using her fame to support truly effective ways of tackling malaria.

IPN Opinion article

May 18, 2010
Bad medicines don't just threaten lives, they undermine the entire medical system.

IPN Opinion article

May 17, 2010
Official statistics are routinely and disingenuously used by governments to promote political agendas that are at odds with inconvenient reality.
April 28, 2010
World Malaria Day, 25 April - The biggest threat is the rise of drug-resistant parasites due to fake and sub-standard medicines. As with other drugs before, this resistance is emerging all along the Mekong, from Cambodia to Myanmar, where the wonder-drug artemisinin is already failing: this threatens malaria victims everywhere.