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Friday, May 17, 2013 — No Region Specified

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach

Source: The Atlantic
The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 — No Region Specified

Aid for vaccines is subsidising Big Pharma, doctors claim

Source: The Guardian
Médecins sans Frontières is concerned that immunization schemes in poor countries are unsustainable, and often unsuitable for hot climates.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 — No Region Specified

Micro-Needles Could Allow Painless DNA Vaccines

Source: Live Science
Patches covered in microscopic needles could tattoo vaccines into the skin to boost a patient’s defense against disease, researchers say.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 — No Region Specified

Glaxo Starts India Venture to Develop Emerging Market Vaccines

Source: Bloomberg.com
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) agreed to form a joint venture in India to produce a six-in-one vaccine that will immunize children in developing countries against infectious diseases including polio.
TAGS:health care, multinational corporation, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Monday, January 28, 2013 — No Region Specified

Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning

Source: BBC
The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, tuberculosis
Thursday, January 24, 2013 — No Region Specified

Billionaire Horse Breeder’s Polio Shot to Undercut Glaxo

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunization and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline.
TAGS:Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Monday, January 14, 2013 — No Region Specified

UT Arlington receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant for research in global health

Source: Phys.org
A new research grant could lead to new ways to cool vaccines and medicine that must be shipped to remote parts of the world without ready access to electricity.
TAGS:academia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, rural healthcare delivery, vaccinations
Monday, January 07, 2013 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers

Source: Think Progress
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
TAGS:health care, malaria, pharmaceutical industry
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 — No Region Specified

First New TB Drug In 50 Years Approved Must Be Made Widely Available

Source: Doctors Without Borders
NEW YORK/GENEVA , December 31, 2012—The approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of an important new tuberculosis treatment must lead to its availability in countries with high levels of the drug-resistant form of the deadly disease
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, tuberculosis
Thursday, December 20, 2012 — No Region Specified

Silk stabilizer could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines

Source: Vaccine News Daily
Researchers at Tufts University recently found that a new silk-based stabilizer could get rid of the need to refrigerate vaccines and antibiotics, potentially enhancing vaccine delivery and storage in developing nations.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, vaccinations
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 — No Region Specified

Vaccine Rule Is Said to Hurt Health Efforts

Source: New York Times
A group of prominent doctors and public health experts warns in articles to be published Monday in the journal Pediatrics that banning thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines, would devastate public health efforts in developing countries.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, vaccinations
Thursday, December 13, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Saving Tanzania’s Poorest Children

Source: Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - Half asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge of his mattress, staring blankly out of the window. Every now and then, she turns to wipe her 18-month-old son’s forehead.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, public health, vaccinations
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzania free of tetanus in mothers and babies

Source: Saudi Gazette
Dar Essalam —The Tanzanian government yesterday celebrated the introduction of two vaccines to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhea and announced that it has been declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), one of the world’s major causes of deaths in mothers and newborns.
TAGS:pharmaceutical industry, public health
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria: Global Fund Happy With HIV, TB Treatment in Nigeria

Source: All Africa
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, on Tuesday expressed delight at the level of care and treatment given to persons infected with HIV and tuberculosis in Nigeria.
TAGS:health care, HIV/AIDS, pharmaceutical industry, public health, tuberculosis
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

GSK Forms Partnership with Vodafone to Help Increase Childhood Vaccination in Mozambique

Source: Equities.com
GSK today announced it has formed a partnership with Vodafone to harness innovative mobile technology to help vaccinate more children against common infectious diseases in Africa. Despite major advances in the funding and availability of vaccines worldwide, it is estimated that up to a fifth of children worldwide still do not receive basic vaccines. The proliferation of mobile phones in Africa offers an opportunity to create innovative and cost-effective ways to address barriers to universal vaccination.
TAGS:corporate engagement, health care, pharmaceutical industry
Thursday, December 06, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

GAVI Needs to Offer Lower Vaccine Prices to Humanitarian Groups

Source: Doctors Without Borders
DAR ES SALAAM/GENEVA, DECEMBER 5, 2012—The GAVI Alliance should systematically extend the discounted vaccine prices it obtains from pharmaceutical companies to humanitarian organizations that are often well placed to reach unvaccinated children, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today at the GAVI Partners Forum meeting in Tanzania.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry
Tuesday, December 04, 2012 — South Asia

Sanofi shakes up diabetes market in India

Source: LiveMint
The firm is changing the rules of the game by is lowering prices, localizing products for treatment of the disease
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry
Tuesday, December 04, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria: MSD Introduces New HIV Drug, Atripla

Source: All Africa
AS part of the efforts to meet the Anti-Retroviral, ARV, drugs requirements of Nigerians living with HIV, MSD, one of the world’s healthcare leaders, weekend launched into the Nigerian market its innovative antiretroviral, ARV, drug – Atripla – a prescription medication used to treat HIV-1 infection in adults and children of at least 12 years of age.
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry
Thursday, October 11, 2012 — Europe & Eurasia

GlaxoSmithKline opens door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines

Source: The Guardian
British drugs company releases findings of clinical trials and announces new effort to find tropical disease cures
TAGS:health care, pharmaceutical industry, research, social impact
Friday, February 10, 2012 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin Makes Headway in Attempt to Reduce Deaths from Malaria

Source: The Guardian
Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers
TAGS:health care, malaria, pharmaceutical industry, public health
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 — No Region Specified

GSK's Andrew Witty on the Future of Pharma Collaboration to Help Poor Countries

Source: The Guardian
Just before the all-singing, all-dancing launch of the big initiative to control or eliminate 10 neglected diseases – starring 13 CEOs from Big Pharma, the WHO's director general, Margaret Chan, and Bill Gates – I grabbed a few words with Sir Andrew Witty, head of GlaxoSmithKline, who co-chaired the negotiations over the past year with Gates.
TAGS:Base of the Pyramid, health care, pharmaceutical industry
Monday, March 21, 2011 — Latin America

PepsiCo Foundation Announces $5 M Grant to IDB's AquaFund

Source: Microfinance Focus
The PepsiCo Foundation recently announced a $5 million grant to the AquaFund, launched by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to facilitate investment in water supply and sanitation, water resources, solid waste management and wastewater treatment. The AquaFund agreement was signed by Luis Montoya, President of PepsiCo Latin American Beverages, and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the IDB, at the International Environment Summit in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The grant will fund a...
TAGS:pharmaceutical industry

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