FPMA believes it is imperative to underscore the importance of NCDs as a key component of sustainable development, by revisiting its Framework to ensure it is relevant and applicable in the post-2015 agenda.
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Four universities, fifty students, ten months of research and writing now lead to culmination at the annual conference of Polygeia: Students Shaping Global Health, at the Cambridge Union Society. Our key message: motivated and bright young people are not only the global health leaders of the future, but have the desire and ability to improve...
Read moreIFPMA congratulates WTO members for their commitment to reach an agreement on extending the TRIPS waiver for LDCs. This now allows more focus on how LDCs may benefit from eventual TRIPS implementation and on how to address the real barriers which prevent patients in these countries from receiving the medicines they need. IFPMA supports...
Read moreCroplife International, Innovation Insights, and IFPMA organized a cross-industry panel at the WTO Public Forum to discuss how trade has changed over the last 20 years in the fields of agriculture, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals. The speakers reflected on how the WTO, through its systems of rules, has contributed to a large extent to creating economic...
Read moreThe International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), formerly the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) held the inaugural meetings of its new Assembly [and Management Committee] on 23 October 2015. The reforms build on a 25-year track record of successful delivery of harmonised guidelines for global pharmaceutical development, and their regulation. The changes announced today build on...
Read moreGenes. Chromosomes. Mutations. Today, these terms are as likely to be overheard in a casual dinner conversation as they are in scientific symposia and medical congresses. While the discovery of DNA dates back to 1869 when Swiss biochemist Johann Friedrich Miescher discovered nucleic acid, it was not until James Watson and Francis Crick published in...
Read moreThe global innovative and generic/biosimilar pharmaceutical industries welcome the entry into force of the Medicrime Convention and encourage countries worldwide to sign and ratify it.
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This blog was originally posted on Business Fights Poverty. After more than two years of intense negotiations, the United Nations’ 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda with 17 goals. Together with the UN Post 2020 Climate targets, these agreements will have far reaching impacts on regulation, markets and expectations...
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