[James Love is] Big Pharma’s worst nightmare | Sarah Boseley | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/big-pharmas-worst-nightmare
Jamie Love has spent years battling global drug companies, unshakable in his belief that even the world’s poorest people should have access to life-saving medicines.
#WHO walks back some of its #mea_culpa
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2015/04/who-walks-back-some-of-its-mea-culpa.html
Yesterday I posted the complete text of WHO’s description of its #errors in dealing with #Ebola in West Africa (...). It was striking for the frankness of its admissions.
(...) strange report by Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley: How WHO revised its self-criticism over Ebola handling. Here’s what Boseley wrote. Click through to the full report to see how thoroughly (and rapidly) watered down its original statement:
The World Health Organisation issued a fairly profound statement of the mistakes made in its own handling of the Ebola outbreak while pointing to the way forward this morning, which dropped into my email inbox at 09.21 UK time. Then just an hour later, it issued what it called a #correction, but which was in fact a substantial #revision of the document.
Ebola: the race to find a cure | Sarah Boseley | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/17/ebola-race-find-cure
The border crossing did not look encouraging. Dense tropical forest spilled over the banks of the rushing Mano river, which divides Guinea from Liberia. Three scientists from Oxford University – Jake Dunning, 38, Peter Horby, 47, and Laura Merson, 37 – stood on the bank and watched as the boatman used a plastic canister to bail out brown water from the bottom of the canoe. They then climbed in with their bags – they had no time to lose.
It was 20 October 2014 and the travellers carried passports with visas for the three countries worst afflicted by the Ebola epidemic: Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. They also carried mission papers, which gave them government approval to cross border posts that had been closed in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease.
Aid for vaccines is subsidising Big Pharma, doctors claim | Sarah Boseley | Global development | guardian.co.uk
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/04/aid-vaccines-subsidising-big-pharma-doctors-claim
Large sums of public money intended to ensure children in the developing world are immunised against disease are effectively being used to subsidise Big Pharma, doctors working in the field claim.
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), the Nobel prize-winning organisation working on the frontline in remote and conflict areas, says vaccines bought with UK and other donor governments’ money cost too much and are not designed for the needs of hot and impoverished countries. When the pot of money subsidising the high prices of western pharmaceutical companies runs out, developing world governments will not be able to afford the vaccines and children will continue to lose their lives, MSF says.
MSF is concerned that the deals between the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), to which the UK was the biggest donor last year, and pharmaceutical companies such as the British giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer in the US, are not transparent and do not have inbuilt sustainability.
“It looks to us like a big subsidy for pharma – there is no other way of saying it really,” said Dr Manica Balasegaram, executive director of MSF’s access campaign.
Campaigners propose radical agenda to tackle ill-health | Sarah Boseley | Global development | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/oct/21/who-conference-poverty-causes-ill-health
At a prestigious World Health Organisation global conference on Friday, intended “to build support for the implementation of action on social determinants of health”, the stakes were raised publicly. More radical health campaigners rejected the official Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, which had been carefully negotiated in advance in order not to upset sensitivities, and launched an alternative civil society Rio Declaration.
#santé #politique #inégalités (à lire en entier)