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		<title>Ensuring affordability, accessibility and safety of medicines through urgent action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Health Action (HA) has published articles relating to essential medicines, generic medicines, drug price control and other drug related issues in its September 2009 issue. Some of the relevant articles have been uploaded here (with permission from HA).
Dubious Rather Than Spurious Drugs &#8211; India’s Real Drug Problem
Dr Anurag Bhargava M D
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		<title>&#8220;Mashelkar Report ll underestimates India&#8217;s right to define patentability standards&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mashelkar Report II underestimates India&#8217;s right to define patentability  standards&#8221; &#8211; Professor Brook K. Baker, Northeastern U. School of Law, Program  on Human Rights and the Global Economy; Health GAP (Global Access  Project), October 9, 2009
For the second time, the Mashelkar Committee has misinterpreted India’s flexibility under international law to limit  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidanindia.wordpress.com&blog=4440105&post=230&subd=aidanindia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MAKING MEDICINES AFFORDABLE &#8211; Reaching the Unreached</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOW COST MEDICINES INITIATIVE &#8211; CHITTORGARH
DISTRICT LEVEL INTERVENTIONS – THE MODEL
&#8220;We knew that the actual cost of most of the drugs is very low. But, these were not available to patients at low rates because of three obstacles:&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. So, the district administration adopted the following strategy to provide low cost medicines to the patients.&#8221; 
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		<title>AIDAN Policy Brief on Drug Pricing released</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AIDAN Policy Brief on Drug Pricing was released in the Press Club of Bangalore on March 30, 2009 by Shri.H.S.Doraiswamy, freedom fighter and human rights activist. The policy brief was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Wishvas V. Rane (1930-2008), one of the founders of AIDAN and beloved senior most drug activist. It contains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidanindia.wordpress.com&blog=4440105&post=206&subd=aidanindia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine Prices and Affordability &#8211; A Policy Brief on Drug Pricing</title>
		<link>http://aidanindia.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/medicine-prices-and-affordability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This policy brief discusses the issue of medicine pricing and affordability for the common people of India. This document gives specific examples of overpricing. A decaying public health system and a market riddled by overpriced, irrational and unscientific medicines aggravates the lack of access and affordability. Several Government of India committee reports have suggested some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidanindia.wordpress.com&blog=4440105&post=209&subd=aidanindia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open letter to WHO on Pneumococcal Vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 16, 2009
To,
Dr. Margaret Chan,
Director-General of WHO,
Geneva
Dear Dr. Chan,
Greetings from All India Drug Action Network &#8211; AIDAN !
All India Drug Action Network is an all India network of organization and concerned individuals who have been advocating for more than twenty five years on issues related to the access, prices, safety , quality and rationality of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidanindia.wordpress.com&blog=4440105&post=195&subd=aidanindia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NGO asks WHO not to support Wyeth’s anti-pneumonia vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economic Times, Delhi edition dated Sep 18, 2008 (Page Number 26) carried news about Drug Action Forum of Karnataka (DAF-K) open letter to World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
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		<title>Profit making vaccine companies and WHO -Open letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPEN LETTER TO WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO) DIRECTOR-GENERAL (DG) FROM DAF-K*
2nd September 2008
From,
Drug Action Forum – Karnataka (DAF-K)*,
57, Tejaswinagar, Dharwad 580002, Karnataka, India.
Fax &#38; telephone +91 (0)836 2461722, Mobile +91 (0)9448862270
Email; &#8211; drugactionforumkarnataka@gmail.com, Web; &#8211; www.daf-k.cjb.net
To,
Director-General,
World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland,
Fax number +41 22 7913131
Dear Ma’am, 
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		<title>IMA Recommendations on Polio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Consultative Meeting on the Polio Eradication Initiative (and Hepatitis-B) was held on 14th May 2006 by the Indian Medical Association (IMA).  While the complete report of this meeting is available on the IMA website (www.imanational.com), we reproduce here the Recommendations on Polio.
 
Polio Eradication: Current Status
 
Gains Achieved by the programme 

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		<title>Price Control Move Hailed (AIDAN Press Release 2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Press Release: 27 July 2006
 
MOVE TO BRING ESSENTIAL MEDICINES UNDER PRICE CONTROL HAILED
- All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) calls for a comprehensive, balanced and rational drug policy
 
The All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), which is a national network of a number of organisations who have been working on pharmaceutical policy issues since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidanindia.wordpress.com&blog=4440105&post=33&subd=aidanindia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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