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Showing posts with label WHO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WHO. Show all posts
Sunday, May 20, 2018

BWorld 211, Intellectual property, innovation, and prosperity

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* This is my column in BusinessWorld last May 10, 2018. The BusinessWorld Economic Forum 2018 is fast approaching this coming May 18...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

IPR and Innovation 42, Coalition letter to WHO re plain packaging

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Today, a global coalition of 62 market-oriented independent or non-government think tanks and institutes sent a letter to the WHO. Three in...
Friday, February 23, 2018

IPR and Innovation 41, Governments and the UN on patent prizes

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I am reposting below a good article by a friend. Enjoy. -------------- How governments can screw up the development of new drugs ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

WHO must go back to basics

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I am reposting this good article by a friend, Philip Stevens, published in BusinessWorld last Thursday, January 18. ------- To maint...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

IPR and innovation 40, WHO health alarmism and IPR tinkering

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Seven years ago, I briefly surveyed the various offices under the UN and I was surprised to see about 100+ different agencies. See UN burea...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

Business Bureaucracy 11, SEANET workshop on business-friendly regulations

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I am reposting this short summary of the SEANET meeting in Kuala Lumpur, a day after the 4th Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) ended. ------------ ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

MeTA 19: National Forum 2015, Empowerment of Patients

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The two-days annual national forum of the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines started today. I attended the afternoon session...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

MeTA 15: Forum 2014 on Healthcare Ethics and Transparency

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The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines will hold its annual forum this year with a timely theme, Transparency and Ethics in ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Counterfeit Drugs 7: WHO, InterPol and IFPMA on SFFC

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The spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines or simply counterfeit medicines is a big public health problem. Patient...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Health Transparency 14: IMS-CHAT Meeting

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The Coalition for Health Advocacy and Transparency (CHAT) is the umbrella organization of health and research NGOs and think tanks that gath...
Monday, April 15, 2013

PhilHealth Watch 15: Rising Claims for NCDs

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Payment for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC or PhilHealth) is among the four mandatory monthly payments that people in the...