IFPMA Ethics & Business Integrity Days
Progress and future of ethics & business integrity in Ghana and Africa
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50 Years of Global Health Progress Report
This report traces global health progress over the past 50 years. It reviews some of the research-based biopharmaceutical industry’s major scientific advances, as well as acknowledging challenges the industry faces and areas of unfinished business.
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Global Code Comparison
An overview of the global R&D-based biopharmaceutical industry’s self-regulation mechanisms and the commitment of IFPMA members to ethical promotion and interactions for the safety and benefit of patients worldwide.
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AMR Industry Alliance
Together with 100+ companies and trade associations from the AMR Industry Alliance, IFPMA is committed to stop superbugs. Check out our first Progress Report!
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A #mustwatch - our event @WHA71 - click under resources
Have a full detail on one of our events organized at the margins of WHA71.
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IFPMA Corporate Brochure - Committed to a Healthier Future
We hope you find this brochure informative to gain better understanding of the contributions of our industry. We are passionate about the role we play in finding effective and sustainable solutions to today’s most pressing health concerns and look forward to continuing the dialogue with our partners
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IFPMA HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTORY
IFPMA hosts the Health Partnerships Directory, a continuously expanding online database that allows users to view, in depth, health partnerships from across the world that involve the research-based biopharmaceutical industry.
Read MoreIFPMA in Brief
IFPMA represents the research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations across the globe. The research-based pharmaceutical industry’s 2 million employees research, develop and provide medicines and vaccines that improve the life of patients worldwide. Based in Geneva, IFPMA has official relations with the United Nations and contributes industry expertise to help the global health community find solutions that improve global health.
Tackling Global health challenges
The research-based biopharmaceutical industry is proud to be playing its part in the quest to find effective and sustainable solutions to today’s most pressing health concerns.
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Boosting Innovation and Access
The research-based biopharmaceutical industry is thinking creatively about its innovation and business models to meet new challenges, and is working in collaboration with different players from the scientific community.
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Strengthening Regulatory Systems
Patients everywhere should be treated with high quality medicines and vaccines. Science-based guidelines provide direction for the development, manufacture, and supply of medicines.
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Building trust
The healthcare community and the public must be confident that research-based biopharmaceutical industry and their employees, wherever they operate, communicate and act in an ethical and professional manner.
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Discovering medicines and Vaccines
Never have people lived longer and never have so many children been saved from dying in the first years of life. Medicines and vaccines extend and improve the quality of life for many people.
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The Globalisation of the Pharmaceutical Industry
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IFPMA & IFPW Supply chain session 2016 Global Health Forum - long version
The session that took place at 2016 GHF ‘Shaping a sound supply chain ecosystem’ gathered speakers from BMS, IFPW Walgreens Boots Alliance, ICRC and WHO. Moderated by Scrip’s Sukaina Virji. To find out more about the complexities of the pharmaceutical supply chain, to hear what experts think are the essential...
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IFPMA Welcomes Set-Up of New African Medicines Agency
Geneva, 25 May 2018 – To mark Africa Day, soon after African health ministers of 55-country African Union, all gathered at the 71st World Health Assembly, unanimously adopted a treaty to establish the African Medicines Agency, IFPMA seizes this momentum to welcome this important milestone. The new African Medicines Agency...
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ABPI, EFPIA, and IFPMA issue joint statement on AMR
ABPI, EFPIA and IFPMA issue joint statement following publication of the final report by the Review on AMR The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) have today issued a joint...
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Our membership has three levels tailored to meet specific needs. Full Members have to be R&D-based pharmaceutical companies or national associations whose membership includes innovative pharmaceutical companies; Associate Members of R&D-based pharmaceutical companies and national associations whose permanent staff numbers are less than five, and Affiliate Members that are organizations, associations, companies and institutions who are supportive of the R&D-based
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Drugs companies are rising to the challenges of research into superbugs
This letter was first published on the Financial Times on 4th July 2018, in response to the article titled "Pharma sector failing to tackle superbugs, says O’Neill" (26th June 2018) I respectfully disagree with Jim O’Neill’s comments on pharmaceutical companies’ inaction on combating antimicrobial resistance (“ Pharma sector failing to tackle superbugs, says O’Neill”, June 26). As published in the AMR Industry Alliance’s progress...
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Healthy mothers, healthy communities
This blog was first published on the Media Planet supplement for the Guardian on 27 June 2018 Last month, President Kagame told the World Health Assembly: “In Rwanda, a combination of community-based health insurance, community health workers, and good external partnerships led to the steepest reductions (a halving) in child and maternal mortality ever recorded”. But global progress is patchy. India, one of the...
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Opinion: Beware of fake news on global health
This blog was first published on Devex on 23 May 2018 At the 2014 Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, the late Professor Hans Rosling quizzed his audience of leading scientists on average life expectancy. Given three choices, just over a quarter of the crowd picked the correct answer of 70. That’s fewer than would be likely randomly. It is reassuring that even eminent...
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