Archive for 'IGWG'
IGWG Statement by Ethan Guillen of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
May 3, 2008
Today Ethan Guillen, Executive Director of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (www.essentialmedicine.org), issued the following statement on the World Health Organization Intergovernmental Working Group in Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property:
“We were pleased to see the advancement in the negotiations of important issues like technology transfer that promotes innovation of and access to […]
Posted: May 3rd, 2008 under IGWG, Press.
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Statement of Churches (the Delegation UAEM is on), MSF, KEI, HAI
Today, NGOs at the WHO IGWG had an opportunity to give statements to the plenary session. Below are a number of statements made by civil society organizations, including the collaborative statement of the Churches delegation in which we participated.
Joint Statement of Churches Delegation
This statement was written by delegation members from Essential Action,
Third World Network, […]
Posted: May 1st, 2008 under IGWG.
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Prizes and Parasites at IGWG
Prizes and Parasites
One subject attracting a great deal of attention this week at the IGWG meeting in Geneva is that of prizes as an alternative incentive approach for neglected disease R&D, with multiple different examples of prize proposals on the table. In following the negotiations, it has been have noted that there have been […]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under IGWG, Resources.
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18% of IGWG “experts” and invited entities delegates from BIO, 33% of NGO delegates from IFPMA
The post title and the text have been updated to reflect that the category BIO was in also included invited entities, another special category included with the experts.
Suerie Moon, a Harvard UAEMer, in Geneva with MSF this week, has compiled information on the IGWG delegations.
You’ll note that 18% of “experts” are from BIO, including Janna […]
Posted: April 29th, 2008 under IGWG.
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