Medicine
What Purpose Unitaid’s Patent Pool?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
This paper examines the wisdom of Unitaid's new patent pool for AIDS treatments, considering the weaknesses in the case for such a pool, the lessons from historical examples and the likely consequences for research and development.
The new boom in malaria
World Malaria Day, 25 April - The biggest threat is the rise of drug-resistant parasites due to fake and sub-standard medicines. As with other drugs before, this resistance is emerging all along the Mekong, from Cambodia to Myanmar, where the wonder-drug artemisinin is already failing: this threatens malaria victims everywhere.
Killing the malaria killer
IPN Opinion article
On World Malaria Day, activists and governments discuss many weapons against the disease except one of the most effective: DDT
The new boom in malaria
IPN Opinion article
The outlook for malaria remains poor because of fake drugs and bad governance
