BRIEFING PAPERS

HAI's response to the European Commission Public Consultation: An Assessment of the Community System of Pharmacovigilance

Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising: the European Commission's Proposal for Legislative Change (Barbara Mintzes).
For English version; French version; German version
Briefing document prepared for the DTCA seminar (10 January 2002) in Brussels. (HAI, December 2001)

Health, Pharma and the EU
A briefing for Members of the European Parliament on DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DRUG PROMOTION (Charles Medawar) (HAI, January 2002). Also available in French.

Drug policy and the 55th World Health Assembly - May 2002
Briefing document prepared for the health delegates to the 55th World Health Assembly in May 2002:

• Improving access to needed medicines
  Joint NGO briefing paper on access issues (en français, en español)
  (also available as Word documents: in english, en français,/pubsespañol)
  Drug policy and the 54th World Health Assembly - May 2001
  Briefing document prepared for the health delegates to the 54th World Health Assembly in May 2001:
• Improving and sustaining access to essential drugs  (en français, en español
• WHO's growing 'partnership' with the private sector (en français, en español)

Drug policy and the 53rd World Health Assembly - May 2000
Briefing document prepared for the health delegates to the 53rd World Health Assembly in May 2000: Improving Access to Essential Medicines: Confronting the Crisis. Also available in French. (HAI, MSF, CPT 2000).