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The EU must show leadership in the global fight against HIV/AIDS
Full text of Article: Everyday, 600 children and 4,000 adults die of a treatable and manageable disease. After decades of struggle against HIV/AIDS there is still an urgent need to do more to stop people dying needlessly. Despite available and mostly affordable drugs, tools and models of care that work, is it acceptable that 1.7 million people succumb to the disease every year? I don’t think so.
Last updated 15 April 2013
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Science Omega: Vaccines without barriers
Full text of Article: In May 2011, Bill Gates unveiled the Decade of Vaccines to the United Nations in Geneva. Aimed at reducing deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases, and expanding the benefits of immunisation to all, particularly in low and middle-income countries, this initiative has catalysed a new momentum within the global health community.
Last updated 9 April 2013
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BBC: Do drugs really have to be so expensive?
Full text of Article: A liver cancer treatment is off-limits in the NHS due to its unjustifiably high price tag, but in India the same treatment is available for less than £100 a month. In this week's Scrubbing Up, Michelle Childs, of Medecins Sans Frontieres, questions why wealthy nations are not doing more to drive down medicine costs. Sorafenib tosylate is a drug for liver cancer patented by German pharmaceutical company Bayer and marketed as Nexavar.
Last updated 28 March 2013
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Straits Times: US drug-patent demands a roadblock in Pacific trade talks
Full text of Article: This week in Singapore, behind closed doors, government negotiators from 11 Pacific Rim countries meet for the 16th round of negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. The talks ended in Singapore yesterday (Wednesday) and the next round will be held in Peru in May .
Last updated 14 March 2013
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The Australian: Put health ahead of profits in Asia-Pacific trade pact
Full text of Article: THE US government is trying to slyly push restrictive intellectual property protections through the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiation rounds that are currently underway in Singapore. If they succeed, this will be the most damaging trade agreement ever for access to essential medicines in developing countries.
Last updated 8 March 2013
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UNITAID can address HCV/HIV co-infection
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Last updated 4 March 2013
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Buruli Ulcer in a Brave New World
Full text of Article: My recent visit to the Buruli ulcer ward run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Akonolinga Hospital, Cameroon, was both inspiring and disturbing. The care provided was state-of-the art but the visit led me to imagine an ideal world in which we could close these wards and change the face of this disease dramatically. So why would a doctor want to shut down hospital wards?
Last updated 4 March 2013
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Stuck in a time warp: WHO-brokered global R&D action plan shelved
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Last updated 6 December 2012
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Canada’s role in ‘getting to zero’ on HIV
Full text of Article: This year’s World AIDS Day has an ambitious theme: “Getting to zero.” This means: Zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.
Last updated 30 November 2012
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PLOS Blogs: Children with TB – Global Interest at Last
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Last updated 27 November 2012
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