WHO/IGWG

Statement of Thailand to EB 126 (Jan 2010) on public health, innovation and intellectual property

The following statement was delivered by Thailand on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 during the discussion of agenda item 4.3 on public health, innovation and intellectual property. This statement requested Dr. Chan (Director-General, WHO) to conduct an investigation of the leaks of documents of the WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing to the IFPMA. In its statement, Thailand noted that the circle of trust had been broken.

Mr. Chairman,

I thank Madame DG to her explanation about the process and documentations including her constructive advices

Brazilian statement to EB 126 (Jan 2010) on public health, innovation and intellectual property

On Monday, 18 January 2010, Brazil delivered the following statement to the 126th session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) under agenda item 4.3 "public health, innovation and intellectual property". In her intervention, the delegate of Brazil stressed,

Final Report of the WHO Expert Working on R&D Financing published on Friday, January 15, 2010

At the proverbial 11th hour today, the World Health Organization published the final report of the "World Health Organization Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing" in English three days before the commencement of the 126th session of the WHO Executive Board on January 18, 2010. At this juncture, it does not appear that the WHO Secretariat has made available official versions of this Report in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish for Member States' consideration.

New WHO documents published in relation to 3rd EWG meeting

New documents have been published on the WHO website in relation to the third meeting of the WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing that took place from November 30 to December 2, 2009. These six documents are available at:

http://www.who.int/phi/ewg3rdmeet/en/index.html

The first document is: Comparative Review of Innovative Financing Proposals for Health R&D

The second document is: Coordinating Arrangements for R&D [doc 352kb]

Official executive summary of the report of the WHO Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing

23 December 2009

The Official Executive Summary and Recommendations of the Report of the Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing to the Executive Board has been published on the website of the WHO Executive Board as document EB126/6 Add.1. It has a provisional agenda item number of 4.3. The official WHO link to this Executive Summary is: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB126/B126_6Add1-en.pdf

KEI Comments to EWG 2nd Web-based Public Hearing: Defending the Status Quo, or Roadmap for Change?

On Saturday, KEI filed comments with the WHO EWG's 2nd web based hearing. Our comments focused on the criteria for new proposals.

KEI comments to IGWG2

Written by Judit Rius Sanjuan
Friday, 09 November 2007

KEI comments to IGWG2

8 November 2007

KEI appreciates the opportunity to speak today. Our comments will focus on 3 items.

1. Transparency

WHO IGWG (Spanish)

Written by Judit Rius Sanjuan
Wednesday, 23 May 2007


Informe de KEI

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