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Increasing Access to
Needed Medicines
International
News and Events
2001
13 November 2001
WTO Member States finalise declaration on TRIPS and public health.
Click here to read the joint statement
15 October 2001
HAI comments on the paper, "Updating and disseminating the WHO
Model List of Essential Drugs: the way forward" Click
here to read
25 June 2001
US withdraws WTO case against Brazil related to intellectual
property and access to medicines.
Click here to read the joint
statement.
22 June 2001
Patents and medicines: the WTO must act now. HAI signs joint NGO statement
on the special discussion in the WTO TRIPs Council on Patents and Access
to Affordable Medicines. Click here
to read the full statement and see the list of endorsers.
20 June 2001
Special report on the WTO TRIPs Council special session on access
to
medicines. Click here to read the full report
written by the Third World Network
19 June 2001
Developing countries draft joint paper on TRIPs and access to
essential medicines for special session of the TRIPs Council. Click
here to read the full text.
19 May 2001
WHO Director General comments on Global Health Fund:
- text
of speech
- WHO
press release
17 May
2001
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
describes his vision on a Global AIDS and Health Fund at the 54th WHA
HAI statement on Revised Drug
Strategy
Oxfam statement on Revised
Drug Strategy
Save the Children Fund Statement
Draft
resolution on HIV/AIDS proposed by Brazilian delegation
Proposed resolution on the Revised
Drug Strategy from the Brazilian delegation
17 May 2001
WHO releases second edition of Globalization, patents and drugs - An
annotated bibliography
click here for ordering information
16 May 2001
WHO
Director General addresses delegates at 54th Assembly and
highlights access concerns.
16 May 2001
Statement to the World Health Assembly
by the Honorable Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Minister of Health of
South Africa on behalf of the SADC Health Ministers.
14 May 2001
Press release from the 54th World Health Assembly in Geneva:
- Public interest
NGOs demand that the Global Health Fund meets poor countries' needs,
not those of industry
8 May 2001
HAI releases briefing paper on "Increasing
and sustaining access to essential medicines"
for upcoming World Health Assembly
11 April 2001
Press release
from the NGOs attending the WHO-WTO meeting on Differential Pricing
and Financing of Essential Drugs
8-11 April 2001
International Workshop on Differential Pricing and Financing of
Essential Drugs
A number of HAI members and contacts participated in this meeting. For
full proceedings click here.
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