Why is the Gates Foundation still in China?
The China office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of its biggest – second only, in size…
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Gates Foundation seeks to merge science and delivery of global health
Everyone knows that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation likes technology, inventing new things and helping others find innovative ways…
Guest post: Drug prices hurting Russia’s battle against HIV, hepatitis
By Natalie Flath, aka Natasha, a health advocate and activist based in St. Petersburg, Russia. St. Petersburg, Russia — On…
PATH & Sanofi start major production of synthetic anti-malaria drug
Malaria remains one of the world’s biggest killers and also a massive economic drag on poor countries, poor families. One of our best weapons against this scourge is a drug known as artemisinin, which is harvested from the plant sweet wormwood and, as a crop, is about as predictable as corn or hog futures.A major new initiative to be launched tomorrow in Italy by Seattle-based PATH in collaboration with the French drug maker Sanofi aims to do industrial production of synthetic artemisinin.
Drug industry loses in India – fight over ‘patents vs poor’ to continue
The Indian Supreme Court has rejected a drug patent application by the international pharmaceutical firm Novartis, an event that merited coverage by the New York Times, BBC and many other media – news which you might think is mostly a matter for the business page or drug industry insiders. In fact, the case may represent one of the most difficult dilemmas in global health. It is a fight that is far from over.
Op-Ed: How a new trade agreement will hurt poor’s access to medicines
Salon called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the biggest trade deal you’ve never heard of, and speculated it “could potentially be the most significant foreign and domestic policy initiative of the Obama Administration.”
Obama Admin opposes making other nations share cost of drugs
Fake drugs on the riseFlickr, by Rodrigo Senna On the face of it, this might sound a bit odd. But…
Why we still don’t have a cure for AIDS — a novel explanation
If someone discovered a cure for AIDS, would the pharmaceutical industry be able to – or even want to –…
Al Jazeera: The great billion-dollar drug (and vaccine) scam?
Flickr, anolob The pharmaceutical industry often trots out some pretty stunning numbers to explain why their drugs cost so much.…
Owen Barder: Should we pay less for vaccines?
Owen Barder, a development expert at the Center for Global Development, asks “Should we pay less for vaccines?” Barder’s post…