Cheap drugs? Part 2: WHO intervenes

Cancer drugs in LMICs: cheap but unaffordable

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries.

Comparison of veterinary drugs and veterinary homeopathy: part 2

Part 2 of this narrative review outlines the theoretical and practical bases for assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of conventional medicines and homeopathic products. Known and postulated mechanisms of action are critically reviewed. The evidence for clinical efficacy of products in both categories, in the form of practitioner experience, meta-analysis and systematic reviews of clinical ...

Deadlock on access to cheap drugs at global trade negotiations.

At the end of 2002, the United States rejected a compromise proposal aimed at giving developing countries without local manufacturing capacities access to affordable life-saving drugs. At a December meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, negotiators of several of the 144 WTO members expressed their regret about the failure to reach an agreement by the intended deadline, which ...

Bush accused of blocking access to cheap AIDS drugs.

News International health charities have accused George Bush's administration of trying to block developing countries' access to cheap AIDS drugs by questioning the quality of " three in one " generic combination drugs. At a meeting this week in Gaborone, Botswana, the US global AIDS coordinator, Ran-dall Tobias, said that the World Health Organization's drug pre-qualification programme is not ...