US blocks deal on cheap drugs

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries.

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 ...

Cancer drugs in LMICs: cheap but unaffordable

Dirt Cheap and Without Prescription: How Susceptible are Young US Consumers to Purchasing Drugs From Rogue Internet Pharmacies?

BACKGROUND Websites of many rogue sellers of medications are accessible through links in email spam messages or via web search engines. This study examined how well students enrolled in a U.S. higher education institution could identify clearly unsafe pharmacies. OBJECTIVE The aim is to estimate these health consumers vulnerability to fraud by illegitimate Internet pharmacies. METHODS Two I...

A Visual Framing Analysis of French and US Political Cartoons on Trump's Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal

The present study examines how Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018 was framed in political cartoons published in the American and French media. The paper offers a thematic analysis of cartoons published from May 8 to June 8, 2018, the peak period for publication of cartoons on the Iran nuclear deal, and accessed via Google images. The...