UBC-UAEM news

UAEM Express: Access to medicines news roundup for July 14th

Posted on July 14, 2011. Filed under: UBC-UAEM news |

Several items of interest from the past week: – UAEM submission to WHO Consultative Working Group (CEWG) UAEM presents several models to increase global health impact of publicly-funded medical innovation: 1) global access licensing, 2) open research, development and publishing 3) patent pools, 4) de-linking R&D costs from drug prices. Authored by Unni Gopinathan and [...]

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Next UBC-UAEM Meeting: Saturday, May 28th

Posted on May 24, 2011. Filed under: UBC-UAEM events, UBC-UAEM news |

Hi everyone, UBC-UAEM’s summer session kicked off with a successful Strategic Retreat. A huge thanks to everyone who came out — so many fresh faces and great ideas! Minutes from the meeting will be available soon. We hope you can join us for the next breakfast meeting, happening Saturday, May 28th, 9-10am at Sonja’s apartment. [...]

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Canadian access-to-medicines bill passes second reading

Posted on December 25, 2009. Filed under: UBC-UAEM news |

Since 2008, UAEM chapters across Canada have been supporting the work of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network in lobbying for long-overdue reforms to Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), a law which was intended to allow low-cost Canadian generic versions of patented drugs to be exported to poor countries. When Canada passed this law in [...]

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