Advocacy groups
| Title | Link |
|---|---|
| Ip-health -- Discussions of Intellectual Property and Health Care | http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/ip-health |
| Public Citizen - The Health Research Group - "Keep up with Public Citizen through your E-mail!" | http://www.citizen.org/hrg/ |
| Kaisernetwork.org - E-mail alert | http://www.kaisernetwork.org/email_alert/email.cfm |
| The Economics of TB Drug Development - Global Alliance for TB Drug Development - October 2001 - (168 pages) | http://www.tballiance.org/3_per.cfm?rm=economics&sub=per |
| Public Citizen - Patently Offensive Congress Set to Extend Monopoly Patents for Cipro and Other Drugs - November 2001 - (20 pages) | http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF34F.PDF |
| Congressional Leaders’ Soft Money Accounts Show Need for Campaign Finance Reform Bills First of Public Citizen Reports on “527” Groups Reveals Corporate Influence on Broadband, Tobacco and Money-Laundering Policies (48 pages) | http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF45A.PDF |
| Carlos Correa- Integrating Public Health Concerns into Patent Legislation in Developing Countries - South Centre - 2000 (143 pages) | http://www.southcentre.org/publications/publichealth/publichealth.pdf |
| TRIPS on Trial - The Impact of WTO’s Patent Regime The Impact of WTO’s Patent Regime On the World’s Farmers, the Poor On the World’s Farmers, the Poor and Developing Countries and Developing Countries -Declaration de Berne September 2001 - (27 pages) | http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/tripsontrial.PDF |
| Analysis of the Scientific Value of the Evaluation Heroin Distribution in Switzerland - (48 pages) | http://www.aegd.ch/pdf/kritik_engl.PDF |
| Global Forum for Health Research - home page - "to help correct the 10/90 gap by focusing research efforts on diseases representing the heaviest burden on the world's health " | http://www.globalforumhealth.org/pages/index.asp |
| Global Forum for Health Research - Monitoring Financial Flows for Health Research (publication of 5 chapters) | http://www.globalforumhealth.org/FilesUpld/20.pdf |
| Global Forum for Health Research - The 10/90 Report on Health Research 2000 - (publication of 7 chapters) | http://www.globalforumhealth.org/non_compliant_pages/report00/00intro.pdf |
| CPTECH - Frequently Asked Questions About HR 626, the `Health Care Research and Development and Taxpayer Protection Act' | http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/econ/rp-faq.html |
| Kaiser Permanente - Institute for Health Policy - Existing Reporting Systems - This document provides an overview of the following existing medical care reporting systems - (20 pages) | http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/medicine/ihp/pdfs/exist_error_rep.pdf |
| Kaiser Permanente - Institute for Health Policy - List of publications | http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/medicine/ihp/publications.html |
| Fédération romande des consommateurs - FRC - home page | http://www.frc.ch/ |
| "Dialog Ethik" - home page - einen Verein und ein Institut | http://www.dialog-ethik.ch/ |
| HAIWEB - Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising: The European Commission’s Proposals for Legislative Change - Health Action International (HAI-Europe), December 2001 - (11 pages) | http://www.haiweb.org/campaign/DTCA/BMintzes_en.pdf |
| HAI (Health Action International) Europe - Providing prescription medicine information to consumers: Is there a role for direct-to-consumer promotion? Symposium Report- 2002 - (60 pages) | http://www.haiweb.org/campaign/DTCA/2002_symposium_report.pdf |
| Oxfam - TRIPS and Public Health The next battle - (18 pages) | http://www.cptech.org/files/Oxfam-Int-TRIPSPublicHealth.doc |
| Mark
Thomas - Drug Donations: corporate charity or taxpayer subsidy? - (18 pages) |
http://www.waronwant.org/dd-report.pdf |
| Public Citizen - Pharmaceuticals Rank as Most Profitable Industry, Again “Druggernaut” Tops All Three Measures of Profits In New Fortune 500 Report - (15 pages) | http://www.citizen.org/documents/fortune500_2002erport.PDF |
| Public Citizen - Rebuttals to PhRMA Responses to the Public Citizen Report, "Rx R&D Myths: The Case Against The Drug Industry’s R&D 'Scare Card' | http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/articles.cfm?ID=6514 |
| Public Citizen - Drug Industry Most Profitable Again New Fortune 500 Report Confirms “Druggernaut” Tops Other Industries In Profitability Last Year - 2001 - (9 pages) | http://www.citizen.org/documents/4.11.PDF |
| Public Citizen - Critique of the DiMasi/Tufts Methodology and Other Key Prescription Drug R&D Issues | http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/articles.cfm?ID=6532 |
| NCAHF (National Council Against Health Fraud ) - Analysis of the Reports of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) | http://www.ncahf.org/whc/00.html |
| William T. Jarvis - NCAHF (National Council Against Health Fraud ) - Fluoridation | http://www.ncahf.org/articles/e-i/fluoride.html |
| March/April 2002 Issue # 75 Biopiracy + 10 - Captain Hook Awards - 2002 - (10 pages) | http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/Biopiracy+10Comm.pdf |
| Public Citizen - Backgrounder Unprecedented Number of Drug Withdrawals Point to Problems in FDA Drug Approval Process | http://www.citizen.org/congress/regulations/issue_areas/drug_devise/articles.cfm?ID=7442 |
| E-Drug Mailing List - "SATELLIFE's electronic conference on essential drugs. E-Drug is used by professionals in this field to obtain and discuss current information on essential drugs" | http://old.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html |
| wipout.net, the website of the intellectual property counter-essay contest | http://www.wipout.net/home_eng.html |
| MSD - Conference Report Implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health : Technical Assistance – How to Get It Right - 28th March 2002, International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG) - (7 pages) | http://www.accessmed-msf.org/upload/ReportsandPublications/26420021519443/REPORT.pdf |
| Food Fist - Home page - "a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center [that] highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty" | http://www.foodfirst.org/ |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Discussion Paper: The ethics of clinical research in developing countries - November 2001 - (36 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/clinicaldiscuss1.pdf |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Genetic Screening Ethical Issues - December 1993 - (130 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/genetic_screening.pdf |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Mental disorders and genetics : the ethical context - September 1998 - (127 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/mentaldisorders2.pdf |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Stem Cell Therapy: the ethical issues a discussion paper - November 2001 - (20 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/doc/stem_cell_therapy2.doc |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Animal-to-Human Transplants the ethics of xenotransplantation - March 1996 - (168 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/xenotransplantation.pdf |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Report: Human Tissue: Ethical and Legal Issues.Published: April 1995 - (182 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/human_tissue.pdf |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics - Annual Report: Annual Report 2000 - (21 pages) | http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/filelibrary/pdf/ncob_annual_report_2000.pdf |
| Peter Drahos - Bilateralism in Intellectual Property - A Paper Prepared for Oxfam - (14 pages) | http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/bilateral/biltateral.rtf |
| Peter Drahos - Trade-Offs and Trade Linkages: TRIPs in a Negotiating Context - Geneva, 12 September 2000 - Quaker United Nations Office - (13 pages) | http://hostings.diplomacy.edu/quaker/new/doc/OP1.pdf |
| Priced out of Reach - How WTO patent policies will reduce access to medicines in the developing world - Oxfam 4 | http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/priced/priced.rtf |
| WTO Patent Rules and Access to Medicines: The Pressure Mounts - June 2001 - Oxfam | http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/wtorules/wtorules.rtf |
| The Multilateral Trading System: A Development Perspective - Third World Network December 2001 United Nations Development Programme - (103 pages) | http://www.undp.org/mainundp/propoor/docs/TWN%20text%20jan11.pdf |
| Haiweb - NGO statement on Drug Policy at the 55th World Health Assembly May 2002: "Ensuring Accessibility of Essential Medicines" Resolution EB109.R17 | http://www.haiweb.org/campaign/access/wha55/WHA55briefing.doc |
| James Love - CPT Comments on South Africa's Pharmaceutical Legislation, Discusses Parallel Imports and Health Registration Data - October 6, 1997 | http://www.cptech.org/pharm/sa/sa-10-97.html |
| The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - home page | http://www.norml.org/ |
| Kaiser Family - State Health Facts on-line | http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgets&subcategory=Prescription+Drug+Trends&topic=Change+in+Retail+Prescription+Sales |
| Stephen Barrett, A Close Look at Naturopathy | http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics |
| Stephen
Barrett, A Few Thoughts on Ayurvedic Mumbo-Jumbo, Quackwatch, . |
http://www.quackwatch.com/04ConsumerEducation/cho |
| Saul Green, Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories, Quackwatch. | http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics |
| NCAHF - Position Paper on Over-the Counter Herbal Remedies - 1995 | http://www.ncahf.org/pp/herbal.html |
| Stephen Barrett, Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake, Quackwatch | http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions | http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics |
| Integrity in Science, Non profit organizations with ties to the industry, a CSPI Project | http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.htm |
| European Aids Treatment Group (EATG), Glaxo SmithKline Delivers Killer Greed- In Time for the Holidays | http://www.eatg.org/news/00/271200.html#greed |
| Kate Schiel, the war on cancer is a fraud, Disinformation, May 13, 2001 | http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id336/pg1/ |
| Holly Stewart, Vivienne Murray, Premarin The Hidden Costs, Earth Save Canada | http://www.earthsave.bc.ca/materials/articles/art |
| Margaret Duckett, Compulsory Licensing and Parallel Importing: What do they mean? Will they improve access to essential drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS? Background Paper, ICASO, July 1999 | http://www.icaso.org/docs/compulsoryenglish.htm |
| Exit - home page - ""Association pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité" | http://www.exit-geneve.ch/ |
| NCAHF Position Paper on Acupuncture (1990 | http://www.ncahf.org/pp/acu.html |
| Stephen Barrett, Acupuncture, Qigong, and "Chinese Medicine", | http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics |
| Comité d'action pour la médecine populaire - Les produits naturels sont menacés, Arguments | http://www.volksmedizin.ch/download/f_facts.pdf |
| Pain pour le prochain, Les brevets contre la santé | http://www.ppp.ch/news.php |
| Home Page of the Health Research Group of Public Citizen | http://www.citizen.org/hrg/index.cfm |
| Health Research Group: list of information on Dietary and Herbal Supplements | http://www.citizen.org/hrg/drugs/articles.cfm?ID= |
| E-Letter on Drugs for Severe Psychiatric Illnesses, Public Citizen | http://www.citizen.org/eletter/# |
| South Centre, Working Papers on Trade-Related Agenda, Development and Equity (T.R.A.D.E.) | http://www.southcentre.org/publications/pubindex.htm |
| Aegis - home page | http://www.aegis.com/ |
| Swiss Medical Association - home page | http://www.fmh.ch/ |
| Washington Legal Foundation - home page - defends principles such as "individual freedom, limited government, free market economy, and a strong national security and defense" | http://www.wlf.org/ |
| Washington Legal Foundation - Health Projects | http://www.wlf.org/Litigating/litprojects.asp?detail=3 |
| Fondation 19 - Fondation pour la promotion de la santé - home page | http://www.promotiondelasante.ch/default_f.asp |
| L'Association
suisse pour l'alimentation - home page - "en tant qu'association
mi-privée, elle est subventionnée par l'office fédéral de la santé
publique sur la base de la loi fédérale sur les denrées
alimentaires." " |
http://www.sve.org/francais/index.html |
| Paul Walter and Marquard Imfeld - Les Aliments fonctionnels tiennent-ils leur promesse ? Tabula n° 1 - January 1998 - | http://www.sve.org/francais/reportage/Reportage%20Tabula%201-1998.pdf |
| Hilka de Groot - Une sagesse ancienne remise au boût du jour - Tabula n°3 - August 1998 | http://www.sve.org/francais/reportage/Reportage%20Tabula%203-1998.pdf |
| ANDREAS BAUMGARTNER, Le lait: nectar divin... Ou poison malin? - Tabula n° - | http://www.sve.org/francais/a%20la%20loupe/A%20la%20loupe%20Tabula%204-1998.pdf |
| L'alcool pour préserver sa santé? Entretien avec Felix Gutzwiller, spécialiste en médecine préventive - Tabula n° 2 - May 1998 | http://www.sve.org/francais/special/Special%20Tabula%202-1998.pdf |
| Association Suisse pour l'Alimentation - Allergie au lait de vache | http://www.sve.org/francais/conseils/conseils_allergie_lait_vache.html |
| Association Suisse pour l'Alimentation - information on calcium | http://www.sve.org/francais/feuillesnutritionnelles/Calcium_f.pdf |
| Association Suisse pour l'Alimentation - Claudia Küpper - La solution vient du lait – vraiment? - Tabula n° 3 - August 2000 | http://www.sve.org/francais/special/Special%20Tabula%203-2000.pdf |
| Association Suisse pour l'Alimentation - Claudia Küpper - Ostéoporose: mieux vaut prévenir que guérir! - Tabula n° 3 - August 2000 | http://www.sve.org/francais/reportage/Reportage%20Tabula%203-2000.pdf |
| Groupe d'action ostéoporose Suisse - home page | http://www.donna.ch/f/index.htm |
| Conference on neglected disease of March 2002 - home page | www.neglecteddiseases.org |
| Doctors without border, Fatal Imbalance, The Crisis in Research and Development for Drugs for Neglected Diseases - September 2001 - (21 pages) | http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2001/fatal_imbalance_short.pdf |
| Doctors without Border - home page | http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ |
| MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines - home page | http://www.accessmed-msf.org/index.asp |
| GreenPeace - True Food Network - home page | http://www.truefoodnow.org |
| Executive Committee Meeting in Sorrento 2000 - Summary Report - Patentability Requirements and Scope of Protection of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and Entire Genomes | http://www.aippi.org/reports/q150/sr-q150-e.htm |
| Kaiser Network - home page | http://www.kaisernetwork.org/index.cfm |
| Kaiser Family Foundation - home page - "an independent, national health philanthropy dedicated to providing information and analysis on health issues to policymakers, the media, and the general public" | http://www.kff.org/ |
| Kaiser Family Foundation - Generation Rx.com How Young People Use the Internet for Health Information - December 2001 - (45 pages) | http://www.kff.org/content/2001/20011211a/GenerationRx.pdf |
| Kaiser Family Foundation - Understanding the Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising -November 2001 - (26 pages) | http://www.kff.org/content/2001/3197/DTC%20Ad%20Survey.pdf |
| Functional Foods for Health - home page - "a joint program of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" | http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/ |
| Functional Foods Sweden - home page - "The Centre represents national coordination and acts as an initiator and catalyst for strategic activities aimed at enhancing development, and for the creation and implementation of functional food projects" | http://www.functionalfoods.nu/dyndefaultframe.asp |
| Institute of Food Technologists - home page - "a nonprofit scientific society with 28,000 members working in food science, food technology, and related professions in industry, academia and government" | http://www.ift.org/ |
| IFT Expert Report on Biotechnology and Foods - August 2000 - (56 pages) | http://www.ift.org/govtrelations/biotech/report.pdf |
| American Dietetic Association - Biotechnology and the future of food -- Position of ADA | http://www.eatright.org/abiotechnology.html |
| CAST - Biotechnology Communications | http://www.cast-science.org/biotechnology/index.html |
| National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - home page - "private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology " | http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf |
| The Unofficial Gleevec site - home page | http://www.newcmldrug.com/ |
| Gleevec unofficial support web site - home page | http://www.cmlsupport.com/cmlstiresourcecenter.htm |
| The Fondation du Présent - home page - "brings together a multisectoral community of over 10,000 members to raise and jointly address health-related issues, particularly HIV/AIDS" | http://www.hivnet.ch/fdp/ |
| 3R Foundation - home page - "to promote alternative research methods to animal experimentation through grants for research projects" | http://www.forschung3r.ch/index_en.html |
| The Health On the Net Foundation - HON - home page - "to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information" | http://www.hon.ch/home.html |
| International Intellectual Property Institute - IIPI - home page - "a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving intellectual property systems around the world" | http://www.iipi.org/eng/ |
| IIPI - HIV/AIDS Pilot Project - To Deliver Patented Therapies & Other Treatments to Patients in Developing Countries - | http://www.iipi.org/eng/projects/aids.asp |
| Foundation for Genetic Medicine - home page - examines "a host of issues such as those regarding genetic medicine, behavioral genetics, and the ethical, legal, and social features involved" | http://www.geneticmedicine.org |
| ATAC - Reference materials on drugs in development and terminology | http://www.atac-usa.org/Pharmanotes.html |
| The Institutional Review Board - Discussion and News Forum - home page | http://www.mcwirb.org/ |
| NERA
- The Role of Supply-Side Substitution in the definition of the Relevant
Market in Merger Control - A Report for DG Enterprise A/4, European Commission - June, 2001 - (98 pages) |
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/library/lib-competition/doc/supply-side_substitution.pdf |
| The Global Alliance for TB drug development - home page - "Our mission is to accelerate the discovery and/or development of cost-effective new drug" & "not-for-profit, public-private partnership" | http://www.tballiance.org/ |
| Joint Press Release: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), and Oxfam - Generic AIDS Drugs Offer New Lease on Life to South Africans Importation of Generics Cuts Price in Half | http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/pr/2002/01-29-2002.shtml |
| Span Coalitation - home page - "founded by The Gray Panthers to ensure that Americans have access to safe, more affordable medicine" | http://www.spancoalition.org |
| Remed - Network for medicines and developpement - home page - "focusing its thinking and action on problems existing in the field of pharmaceuticals in the developing countries" | http://www.remed.org/html/en_welcome.html |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association - SHOW US THE MONEY: AN UPDATE ON THE STATES' ALLOCATION OF THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT DOLLARS - January 15, 2002 - (85 pages) | http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/2002/fullreport.pdf |
| Jean-Marie Kindermans et al. - Changing national malaria treatment protocols in Africa: What is the cost and who will pay? - Case studies: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda - MSF - February 2002 - (14 pages) | http://www.accessmed-msf.org/upload/ReportsandPublications/12220021722584/JMKmalariadoc.pdf |
| TACD - The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue - home page - "a forum of US and EU consumer organisations which develops and agrees joint consumer policy recommendations" | http://www.tacd.org/ |
| The Heritage Foundation - Health Care: Prescription Drugs - list of articles | http://www.heritage.org/library/keyissues/healthcare/drugs.html |
| European Forum for Good Clinical Practice EFGCP | http://www.efgcp.org/ |
| Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations - ICRIER | http://www.icrier.res.in/index.html |
| Business for Affordable Medicine - home page - "to improve employee access to affordable health care through reform of the federal Hatch-Waxman Act." | http://www.bamcoalition.org/ |
| The Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry - home page - "intended to provide an early signal of any major teratogenic effect associated with a prenatal exposure to the products monitored through the Registry" | http://www.apregistry.com/ |
Last updated: July 7, 2002