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How to Help India's AIDS Victims

IPN Opinion article

September 7, 2004
Julian Morris argues that patents cannot be the barrier to accessing AIDS medicines in India, since India does not recognise patent protection and has the largest generics industry in the world. The problem, he says, is the economic mis-governance that keeps Indians in poverty and the hopeless inadequacy of India's healthcare systems.
AIDS Drugs: Is patent the obstacle? [sic]

IPN Opinion article

July 31, 2004
Thompson Ayodele, director of the Institute of Public Policy Analysis in Lagos, Nigeria, argues that it is \"off target\" to blame patents for blocking access to medicines. He says \" The priority should be on increasing the economic well being of the people on the [African] continent\" by increasing trade and economic freedom -- not by increasing foreign aid.
Spread of AIDS, like terrorism, is bitter fruit of oppression

IPN Opinion article

July 22, 2004
Julian Morris analyses the claim that the AIDS pandemic will lead to increased terrorism
Empowerment is the solution to AIDS in Asia

IPN Opinion article

July 15, 2004
\"A more plausible solution to the AIDS problem in Thailand would be for the government to take a less oppressive attitude both to drug users and to drug producers. Education about the dangers of drug use, which would include messages about needle sharing, is a more responsible answer to the problem than throwing users in jail. Meanwhile, encouraging the research-based companies to sell their wares in Thailand, by respecting their intellectual property rights, is a more responsible answer than frightening them away by stealing their patents.\"
Taxes and tariffs deny patients access to medicines, says new study.

IPN 
Press release

July 14, 2004
Aids quick-fix won't save Africa

IPN Opinion article

July 1, 2004
Dr John Kilama, President of Global Bioscience Development Institute, warns against the dangerous belief that simply increasing the supply and lowering the cost of AIDS medicines in Africa will solve the crisis. In reality the entire healthcare infrastructure needs an overhaul before treatment regimens can be effective
New book debunks environment, health myths

IPN 
Press release

June 21, 2004
Wealth means health -- progress, not regulation, improves lives

IPN Opinion article

June 14, 2004
Environment and health ministers from the WHO\'s European region will meet next week in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss 'the effects of a degraded environment on children's health.' This article highlights the role of technological progress in solving human health and environment problems, often overlooked by activists and international agencies.
Remember TB?

IPN Opinion article

March 24, 2004
Most of us probably think of tuberculosis as a disease of the past ñ something that killed off our weaker ancestors and was eliminated by antibiotics. It may come as something of a shock, then, to learn that each year approximately 8 million people are infected with TB and 2 million die.
Economic solution to scourge of malaria

IPN Opinion article

December 15, 2003
Moreover, when studying climate and vector-borne disease transmission, you must consider the past few thousand years. Dr Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris points out in a new book Adapt or Die: the Science, Politics and Economics of Climate Change, edited by Kendra Okonski that in the past 2000 years, malaria thrived during temperature extremes. During the dark ages (from 750 to 1100 AD) temperatures were so low that the Nile froze and ice floated in the Adriatic Sea. During the Middle Ages, temperatures rose, so much so that Greenland became suitable for agriculture and England became a wine producing region. Yet all the while the transmission of malaria and other vector-borne diseases continued.