India, With Brazil, Proposes Delinkage Feasibility Study in WHA Cancer Resolution

Posted on 23 January 201717 April 2017 by delinkageadmin

During negotiations on the cancer resolution at the World Health Organization Executive Board meeting in January 2017, India, with the support of Brazil, proposed adding language to a resolution on cancer that would require the WHO to conduct a feasibility study on the creation of a multi-country push and pull fund for cancer research and Read more about India, With Brazil, Proposes Delinkage Feasibility Study in WHA Cancer Resolution[…]

December 2016 Meeting on Delinkage in U.S. Senate

Posted on 3 December 201617 April 2017 by delinkageadmin

On December 2, 2016, Knowledge Ecology International hosted a technical meeting on delinkage at the United States Senate. The meeting included panels on various aspects of delinkage, including end product prizes, open source dividends, and antibiotics. Slide presentations from the meeting are available on the KEI website. A recording of the event is on YouTube.

UN Backs Delinkage in Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Antimicrobial Resistance

Posted on 30 September 201615 November 2016 by James Love

A September 21, 2016 high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance endorsed delinking the cost of R&D from the price and volume of sales. The documents from the meeting are available here: http://www.un.org/pga/71/event-latest/high-level-meeting-on-antimicrobial-resistance/. The relevant part of the political declaration was as follows: (c) Underline also that all research and Read more about UN Backs Delinkage in Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Antimicrobial Resistance[…]

Group of 77 and China Back Delinkage in Context of Antimicrobials

Posted on 30 September 201615 November 2016 by James Love

During the UN high level meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, the Group of 77 and and China read a statement that included an endorsement of delinkage: Statement delivered by His Excellency General Prayut Chan-o-cha (ret.) Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand on behalf of the Group of 77 and China at the Plenary of the Read more about Group of 77 and China Back Delinkage in Context of Antimicrobials[…]

UN High-Level Panel Endorses Delinkage of R&D Costs from Prices of Drugs and Vaccines

Posted on 14 September 201616 September 2016 by Zack Struver

The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines today issued its final report. The main report was accompanied by eleven pages of additional commentary, including ares of dissent from six panel members, plus additional explanations of the process. The panel was asked to address the policy incoherence from granting monopolies for products on Read more about UN High-Level Panel Endorses Delinkage of R&D Costs from Prices of Drugs and Vaccines[…]

Innovation and Access Requires “Delinkage”

Posted on 13 September 201613 September 2016 by James Love

By Ellen ‘t Hoen LLM. Medicines Law & Policy and Global Health Unit, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. September 13, 2016 Solving the problems of access to high priced medicines is not possible without some serious new thinking about the way we finance the development of new medicines. Today’s predominant model Read more about Innovation and Access Requires “Delinkage”[…]