The 3rd session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is meeting from 3-6 December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. According to the conference website, Hyderabad is
This is from an exchange on IP-Health.
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Dear Aidan and Thomas.
There are several things I could mention about this revised position on compulsory licenses, but I will begin with these.
One feature of the HIF that is raising eyebrows is their proposal to
spend $600 million *per year* on assessing health impacts. This is
apparently more than an order of magnitude greater than the entire
budget of NICE. The reference to the $600 million from the HIF book
follows:
Aidan Hollis and Thomas Pogge, The Health Impact Fund, Making New
Medicines Accessible for All, A Report of Incentives for Global Health,
2008Page 30-32
THE COST OF HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Yesterday December 1 2008, professors Aidan Hollis and Thomas Pogge presented their Health Impact Fund (HIF) proposal at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
The meeting convened and moderated by the President of Georgetown University, Jack deGioia, was attended by 50/60 people and was structured with two presentations by the co-authors and a panel discussion by :
Paul Antony, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director, PhRMA
Lawrence Gostin, J.D., Associate Dean and Timothy and Linda O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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This is a comment on the references to compulsory licensing in the Hollis/Pogge HIF book that are quoted below.
https://www.keionline.org/blogs/2008/11/18/excerpts-from-hif-compulsory-licensing/
Aidan Hollis and Thomas Pogge, The Health Impact Fund, Making New Medicines Accessible for All, A Report of Incentives for Global Health, 2008.
On November 25, 2008, I was invited to give a talk in Vienna, at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce (the WKO). The event was organized by Eva Lichtenberger, a Green Party MEP. Eva also spoke, and gave a great talk, in German. Her slides were in English, and I’ll add them when I can. The outline of my talk is given below.
On November 25, 2008, I was invited to give a talk in Vienna, at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce (the WKO). The event was organized by Eva Lichtenberger, a Green Party MEP. Eva also spoke, and gave a great talk, in German. Her slides were in English, and I’ll add them when I can. The outline of my talk is given below.
KEI has filed comments on the EC’s Green Paper on Copyright limitations and exceptions. They are on the web here: https://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215
UNCTAD head Supachai Panitchpakdi will open up this December 16-19 event in Bangkok. The meeting is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany.
Programme Events
Event: Symposium on Flexibilities in International Intellectual Property Rules and Local Production of Medicines
Date: 16–19 December 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Venue: Conference Room of Arnoma Hotel
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