Comments on: World Health Assembly Creates New Initiative For R&D Financing

By: WHO Group On Neglected Diseases R&D Issues Workplan With Timeline | Intellectual Property Watch

Mon, 23 May 2011 17:57:02 +0000

[...] The mandate for the R&D working group was set at the 2010 Health Assembly (IPW, WHO, 21 May 2010). [...]

By: WHO Future In Question, Debate Over Industry Representation | Intellectual Property Watch

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:08:13 +0000

[...] During the last WHA in May 2010, a consultative expert working group on research and development financing and coordination was created. A previous group was shaded by concerns about lack of transparency and its final report did not meet the expectations of a number of member states (IPW, WHO, 21 May 2010). [...]

By: Miles Teg

Miles Teg — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:50:41 +0000

@ Loria, nice idealist sentiment much needed at WHO. Contrary to aspirations, WHO staffers were actively campaigning against a Brazilian proposal in the text that said to the effect that “Health needs should take priority commercial interests”… makes you wonder about WHO Human Resources, WHO management, what it takes to get ahead at WHO, and more importantly WHOs shying away from its role as balancing short term interests with medium to long term needs… WHO will issue a statement to protect trade in pork products during Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ but almost attacked (then retracted) Thailand for supporting compulsory licenses for patients who could not afford it… It take REAL IDIOT SAVANTS to forget that the system needs strong contradiction to survive… that said, barring a few developing countries, most are just bystanders while the rich countries protect their own systems while decimating those of the South including through promoting aid dependency… idealism ought to be tempered with the fact that we find ourselves in circumstances not of our making… the hope lies now in the austerity programs in the US and EU that is going to decimate the health systems and care… perhaps after that it will be clear that policies for the natives are not good for the North either no matter how professorial the advice may be…

By: James Loria

James Loria — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:00:59 +0000

These processes run so deep and have such a tremendous impact on all countries. The first and foremost question needing to be addressed before anything of real significant value can be achieved is:
“Will all of the countries in the world come together and truly commit to working for the benefit of the WHO without prejudice, selfishness, jealousy or personal goals in order to change the future for all of mankind”?
The world will need to change drastically and everyone will need to rise to a higher level of consciousness before that can ever be achieved. Until then, the same types of problems will continue to exist and plague our planet, with the WHO being blessed with the slow process of moving forward with its agenda.

By: World Health Assembly Creates New Initiative For R&D Financing – Lega Digital Consulting Group

Mon, 24 May 2010 05:09:18 +0000

[...] Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=11003 [...]

By: Miles Teg

Miles Teg — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:48:59 +0000

WHO caught with its pants down when Wikileaks revealed that BigOligopPharma had the document before member states… Now this… seems like there is a shadow government on intellectual property at the WHO… This is a victory for developing countries after the attempt at perversion of this process… one would have thought the WHO would have taken the need for innovation more seriously than this with new chemical entities being discovered at a fraction (about a 10th) of what they were in the 70s… no matter as long as the number of ‘new’ patents goes up (even if they are ‘old’)… like they say in health, what gets measured gets done…
One really needs a God Complex to pull this off…