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Written by Elisabeth Fowler
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Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Summer 2009
Kristina M. Lybecker, Colorado College
Elisabeth Fowler, World Health Advocacy
The tension between economic policy and health policy is a longstanding dilemma, but one that was brought to the fore with the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement in 1994. The pharmaceutical industry has long argued that intellectual property protection (IPP) is vital for innovation. At the same time, there are those who counter that strong IPP negatively impacts the affordability and availability of essential medicines in developing countries.
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Written by Elisabeth Fowler
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World Health Advocacy co-hosted the "Access to Rx Drugs: What Every Patient Should Know" workshop held in Toronto, ON on September 21 & 22, 2009. Elisabeth Fowler helped to moderate the workshop and also delivered the attached presentation, providing an overview of the process of medical innovation.
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Guest blog by Susan Huggett, President of Torre Lazur McCann Canada
Periodically, there have been calls for greater limits on direct to consumer (DTC) advertising of new prescription drugs in the U.S. One proposal that is often advanced calls for a moratorium on advertising during the first two years following a drug's approval by the Food and Drug Administration. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently evaluated the impact of the proposed advertising moratorium – in terms of cost to the health care system as well as its impact on public health.
The brief published by the CBO highlighted that an advertising moratorium delaying the widespread use of new drugs:
- Could worsen rather than enhance public health
- Would likely have a limited impact on prescription drug prices
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On Friday, March 5, 2010, over thirty Canadian health stakeholders (representing patients, providers, government, academics and industry) participated in a roundtable meeting to discuss the new paradigm of benefit-risk introduced in Bill C-51.
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The Pre-WHA Civil Society Forum (“Equity, Justice and Health”) was co-organized by the People’s Health Movement, Third World Network and the World Council of Churches in order to “share concerns and recommend actions that civil society views as being of critical importance for advances in global Health and health equity.”
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