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Hepatitis C treatment
Pakistan: Low cost Hepatitis C treatment: ‘Everything is heading in the right direction – on paper’

The production of a local biosimilar version of interferon alfa is being delayed by bureaucratic obstacles, according to its developer.

Published
28 February 2013
From
Express Tribune
Access to medicines and treatment
UNAIDS and UNDP back proposal to allow least-developed countries to maintain and scale up access to essential medicines

Failure to extend the transition period for least-developed countries to become fully compliant with the TRIPS Agreement could put millions of lives at risk.

Published
28 February 2013
From
UNAIDS
Hepatitis C treatment
Pakistan: Hepatitis C patients get the axe as hospitals stop treatment

ISLAMABAD: Most public hospitals in twin cities have stopped providing treatment to Hepatitis patients who cannot afford to pay, putting their lives at stake.

Published
28 February 2013
From
The Express Tribune
GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV and the patent pool have also agreed to negotiate further licenses that will allow generics firms to manufacture low-cost versions of an experimental drug, dolutegravir, that is currently awaiting regulatory approval in Western markets.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Reuters
Finance and funding
US budget cuts could jeopardize development of life-saving tools against major killers

Across-the-board cuts to US R&D programs could have a devastating impact on efforts to develop new drugs for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the world's first malaria vaccine, and other vital global health products in development, according to a new report from a coalition of nonprofit groups focused on advancing innovation to save lives.

Published
27 February 2013
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Eurekalert Inf Dis
Access to medicines and treatment
UNITAID can address HCV/HIV co-infection

In the first days of March, the governing body of UNITAID, the organisation financed mainly through a levy on air tickets, will decide on a new 4-year strategy. We believe UNITAID's new strategy should also include tackling a prevalent and serious, but curable, HIV co-morbidity: hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.

Published
23 February 2013
From
The Lancet
Global health initiatives
New IOM report highlights PEPFAR's successes

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has saved and improved millions of lives worldwide and offered proof that HIV/AIDS services can be effectively delivered on a large scale even in countries with high rates of disease and resource constraints, says a new congressionally mandated evaluation conducted by the Institute of Medicine.

Published
20 February 2013
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Access to medicines and treatment
Belgian proposal: Sick illegal immigrants to return home in exchange for medical treatment

It emerged on Monday that Antwerp social services had been refusing to fund antiretroviral drugs for undocumented HIV patients when the drugs are already available in their country of origin.

Published
20 February 2013
From
Expatica
Access to medicines and treatment
Malawi: Malawi's Never-Ending Drug Shortage Problem

Malawi is again experiencing a crisis in the delivery of essential medicines, with understaffed clinics and erratic drug supplies preventing many dangerously ill patients from accessing treatment.

Published
20 February 2013
From
AllAfrica
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
UNITAID-financed project to increase access to new HIV monitoring technology

UNITAID and France Expertise Internationale (FEI) signed a US$ 2.4 million agreement to implement the “OPP-ERA” project which will stimulate the market entry of new manufacturers and suppliers of HIV Viral Load Test (VLT) technologies, bringing an innovative solution to meet the HIV monitoring and diagnostics needs in resource-limited settings.

Published
15 February 2013
From
UNITAID
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