The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Denmark have convened a Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing of Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control from 9 April 2018 to 11 April 2018 in Copenhagen. The conference is… Continue Reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2018 kim.treanor@keionline.org (202)-332-2670 Six organizations are asking Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to take actions to lower the price of eteplirsen, a drug sold under the brand name Exondys 51, to… Continue Reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2018 kim.treanor@keionline.org (202)-332-2670 A coalition of 16 advocacy organizations in the United States and Korea asked trade negotiators in the U.S. and Korea to reject the demands of the pharmaceutical industry, protect human rights, and… Continue Reading
In a resolution dated the 9th of March, 2018, Minister Carmen Castillo Taucher of Chile’s Ministry of Health has announced that there are sufficient public health reasons to support a compulsory license on medicines for the hepatitis C virus (HCV),… Continue Reading
This is an update to a 2007 report regarding a district court decision in the Innogenetics v. Abbott case here, regarding Abbott’s infringement of Innogenetics’s patents for HCV genotyping. The previous blog discusses the ruling at the district court level… Continue Reading
There is a specialized web page on delinkage here: http://delinkage.org De-linkage can be defined in the negative, by saying that the R&D funding should not be tied to the price of the product. Progressive de-linkage means that governments implement reforms… Continue Reading
KEI Briefing Note 2018:1. Bayh-Dole Obligations to Disclose Federal Funding Government oversight of under-reporting U.S. federal rights in patents. 1994. June 15, 1994, Inspector General Report to HHS on the under-reporting of federal funding of inventions at the Scripps Research… Continue Reading
World Health Assembly, May 2001 Statements May 21, 2001. Health GAP Report on the 54th World Health Assembly. May 18, 2001. CPT/Essential Action Comments on the World Health Assembly. May 17, 2001. HealthGAP Coalition Release on the World Health Assembly.… Continue Reading
KEI page on Research and Development Cost Transparency Legislation EB142: KEI statement on Addressing the global shortage of, and access to, medicines and vaccines, January 24th, 2018 Expert Panel charts a road map for WHO’s engagement on transparency and R&D,… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018, the representative of the Republic of South Africa delivered the following statement at the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council; South Africa delivered this statement under the agenda item on IP and the Public Interest: Regulatory… Continue Reading