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Washington Post: Gilead delayed safer HIV drug to extend monopoly profits, advocates allege “…An HIV-prevention group called PrEP4All Collaboration filed a petition Wednesday with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office contending Gilead knew its new, improved drug — approved in 2015 and now part of Gilead’s combination therapies Genvoya and…
World Economic Forum: How venture capital can transform global health Nina Rawal, founder and managing director of Emerging Health Ventures, discusses the financing needs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the role of venture capital. Rawal concludes, “The venture capital model is far from perfect and is not proposed…
Médecins Sans Frontières: Pharma giants shouldn’t receive multi-million dollar pneumonia vaccine subsidy “Ahead of this week’s board meeting of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in New Delhi, India, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on board members to immediately stop paying out funds from a remaining US$262 million subsidy to the pharmaceutical…
Center for Global Development: HIV Treatment in Rural South Africa Increases Employment among HIV-Negative Neighbors — Especially Women (Over/Kaufman, 12/2). Center for Strategic & International Studies: World AIDS Day: Big Questions on the Eve of HIV’s Pivotal Year (Allinder, 11/26). Friends of the Global Fight: Elton John and other leading…
Fortune: Epidemic of Fear: How the Trouble-Ridden Debut of a Breakthrough Vaccine Sparked a Panic “…[W]hile the Philippine news media and most of the politicians involved have moved on, the Dengvaxia controversy continues to have a profound and lasting impact. … In the Philippines, where immunization coverage was already dangerously…
IPS: More Than just a Toilet: Fusing innovation & Partnerships for a Better World Rotish Namboothiry, associate director of Innovation for Good at Kohler Co. “Each year, World Toilet Day raises awareness of the crucial role that sanitation plays in reducing disease and creating healthier communities. At Kohler, we’re committed…
AFP: Europe’s prisons failing to monitor inmates’ health: WHO (11/21). The BMJ: Doctors criticize Indian government’s advice to delay oxytocin at childbirth (Mudur, 11/20). Devex: Food system transformation needs everyone at the table, experts say (Morgan, 11/20). The Guardian: U.N. warns Burkina Faso could become ‘another Syria’ as violence soars…
UNICEF: Novo Nordisk and UNICEF announce new partnership to help prevent childhood overweight and obesity “Novo Nordisk and UNICEF announced a new partnership [Wednesday] to help prevent childhood overweight and obesity worldwide with an initial focus on interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under this partnership the United Nations…
DW: New Ebola vaccine enters real-world DRC test phase “Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo started using a new vaccine to control the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, global health NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday…” (11/14). The Hill: Ebola vaccine approved “…By prequalifying the…
STAT: Ebola vaccine approved in Europe in landmark moment in fight against a deadly disease “…The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Merck’s vaccine, known as Ervebo, on Monday, less than a month after the European Medicines Agency recommended it be licensed. It is currently being used in the Democratic…