World Health Organization
Open letter to Dr Margaret Chan, DG of the WHO regarding safety issues with HIV/AIDS treatment in Thailand
IPN Opinion article
WHO's Got its Facts Wrong?
IPN Opinion article
The World Health Organisation makes great sport of taking the pharmaceutical industry to task for its inability to provide everyone in the developing world with the drugs they need. This so-called market failure is being used at negotiations in Geneva this month to bring research and patents under official control, managed by the WHO--but the WHO has trouble managing itself.
WHO's '3 by 5' not the answer
IPN Opinion article
ACTIVISTS at this week's world AIDS conference want us to believe that the United Nations' inefficient and expensive treatment programmes can defeat the AIDS pandemic in Africa. But the single-minded pursuit of these targets has taken the focus away from the only thing which really can defeat it: prevention.
WHO must take side of malaria victims
IPN Opinion article
The WHO has finally agreed to use DDT as a main part of its strategy to combat the worsening malaria problem. But the demonised pesticide will have to overcome many vested-interests and political hurdles before it can start saving lives again.
How Safe are Anti-retroviral Drugs?
IPN Opinion article
ARVs are no silver bullet in the fight against AIDS, but if properly administered and manufactured, they can help carriers of the diseases maintain productive lives. Despite this, untested and poor quality ARVs have been foisted on many in Africa by the WHO and western NGOs, according to Thompson Ayodele. Africans DO deserve high quality medicines. What they don't deserve is the increased risk of rising drug-resistance and increasing illness. The WHO's prescription for fighting AIDS is nothing but a sticking plaster on a massive wound, and it is fast becoming unstuck.
