Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 6/2021

Pharma supply

Cancer

Unaffordable treatment

For people in developing countries, most cancer drugs are unaffordable

Price negotiations

Paying over the odds

Thrashing out a vaccines pricing deal with multiple players

Multilateral affairs

Brief history of WTO flexibility regarding pharma patents

Why the international intellectual-property regime was modified in 2001

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Pandemic response

Many governments are half-hearted about IP waiver

Debate on patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines lacks sense of urgency

Pharmacists in development cooperation

Essential experts

Pharmacists without borders do important work in aid missions and projects worldwide

Patents

Intellectual property versus health care

Insistence on medical patents costs lives, especially in the global south

Industry strategies

Repurposing offers rays of hope

How finding new uses for established pharmaceuticals matters in the fight against Covid-19

Crime

Counterfeit medicines are very profitable for criminals

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year as a result of counterfeit medicines

Ebola and Covid-19

Lessons learned from Ebola and Covid-19

In the fight against a deadly disease, more things matter than only vaccines and pharmaceuticals

Intellectual property

INGO opposes vaccine patents

Oxfam explains how current pricing and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines highlight global inequality

Our view

In the health sector, government action is indispensable

Unrestrained market forces do not deliver good health-care results

IMF

IMF keeps pressing for more assertive government action

IMF proposes investments worth $ 50 billion to boost Covid-19 vaccination programmes

Rural health care

Medicines and supplies are difficult to find in rural Malawi

Rural Malawians are poorly served by clinics lacking medicines and expertise

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

An expert from Cape Town assesses the state of African vaccination campaigns in view of coronavirus