AstraZeneca and MMV Join Efforts in the Fight Against Malaria
June 30th, 2010 | AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) today announced a collaborative agreement designed to identify novel candidate drugs for the treatment of malaria. The agreement will initially allow MMV access to AstraZeneca’s extensive compound library. MMV will seek to identify promising compounds with the potential to treat malaria, including drug resistant strains of the disease. AstraZeneca CEO David Brennan announced the collaboration at the Fortune/TIME/CNN Global Forum in Cape Town, South Africa.
CEO Blog: Breaking Down the Barriers to Access Health Care
June 24th, 2010 | GlaxoSmithKline
Every year millions of the world’s poorest people die from curable or preventable infectious diseases or suffer unnecessary ill health because they do not have access to basic health care services, including essential medicines and vaccines.
Global polio eradication initiative launches 2010-2012 strategic plan for interrupting polio worldwide
June 17th, 2010 | World Health Organization
In Geneva this Friday, a broad range of stakeholders will formally launch the new Strategic Plan 2010-2012 for eradicating wild polio virus.
GHP.org | Why innovation is sometimes just as important as invention for pharmaceutical patents
June 14th, 2010 | Asian Age
The Indian Patents Act appears to discourage innovation, requiring “significant” improvement to become eligible for pharmaceutical patents.
GHP.org | Public Health, Not Drug Patents, at Issue as Counterfeit Medicines Grow
June 14th, 2010 | Voices of America
Public health, not the use of drug patents, is the real issue that needs to be addressed as counterfeit drugs continue to be a problem in countries around the world.
Healthy Women, Better World
June 11th, 2010 | UNICEF
Since 2008, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and The World Bank have stepped up efforts to save the lives of mothers and their newborn babies.
Life saving medicines for children – UNICEF and WHO publication highlights importance of access to medicines
June 10th, 2010 | Global Health Progress
A new publication that lists medicines formulated for children is being made available online by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, to help doctors and organizations obtain some of the 240 essential medicines that can save the lives of children.
Global Health Progress: Providing Innovative Solutions and Improving Access to Healthcare in the Developing World
June 8th, 2010
Billions of people worldwide living in developing countries struggle with diseases and other health challenges that threaten their very survival as well as their prospects for building a better life. Developing innovative, sustainable health care solutions for the developing world is essential to ending this vicious cycle of disease, poverty and despair.
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