PHM-Exch> [PHM news] PHM urges the WHO member states to disengage the organization from 'International Conference on Harmonisation' set up by big pharma.

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: PHM Global Secretariat <globalsecretariat at phmovement.org>


PHM urges the WHO member states to disengage the organization from the
'International Conference on Harmonisation' set up by big pharma
    In a joint statement with Medicus Mundi International during the 67th
World Health Assembly, PHM expressed its concern on WHO’s participation in
the ‘International Conference on Harmonisation - ICH’, a de facto standard
setting body set up by the transnational pharmaceutical industry to serve
their business interests. The ICH compromises the neutrality of the process
of setting regulatory norms and standards. It seeks to raise the bar on
acceptable manufacturing standards, and to globalise these. However, higher
standards, beyond a point, do not add to medicines quality and public
health outcomes. It adds to costs of manufacturing and is a barrier to
entry of generics in L&MICs. Read the
statement<http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/MMI-PHM%20Statement_Regulatory%20system%20strenghtening_Susana_FINAL.pdf>.
Read the PHM comentary <http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch/wha67> on the
agenda of the 67th WHA.


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