PHM-Exch> Civil Society Open Letter to World Health Assembly Delegates May 9

Thu May 9 19:20:05 PDT 2019

May 9, 2019
Civil Society Open Letter to World Health Assembly Delegates
We are appalled at the proposals by several countries at the May 7, 2019
informal on the
World Health Assembly (WHA) transparency resolution. In the April 29, 2019
version, the
resolution was focused on transparency, and provided concrete measures to
achieve the
most useful and practical outcomes.
The 61 brackets to the text, plus other proposed changes, would make this
resolution
confusing, weak and practically useless in many areas.
It seems clear that several countries, including in particular, Germany,
Sweden, Denmark,
the UK and Australia want to derail the transparency initiative, and that
Austria and the
United States want to weaken key parts.
We urge other WHA Member States to participate in the May 10, 2019
informal, and to stand
up for a resolution that will be effective in empowering governments and
the public to have
greater transparency and more equal access to information, in order to have
greater power
in dealing with the crisis in the pricing of medical technologies.
Organizations (in alphabetical order)
1. Acceso Justo al Medicamento (AAJM), (Spain)
2. Acción Internacional para la Salud - Perú
3. Action against AIDS Germany
4. AIDES (France)
5. AIDS Access Foundation (Thailand)
6. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
7. Alianza LAC - Global
8. All India Drug Action Network
9. American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
10. ARAS - The Romanian Association Against AIDS
11. Ärzte der Welt e.V./ Médecins du Monde Germany
12. Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA) (Brazil)
13. Brot für die Welt, Bread for the World (Germany)
14. BUKO Pharma-Kampagne (Germany)
15. Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
16. Cancer Alliance, South Africa
17. Cáritas Latinoamérica y el Caribe
18. Centre for Health Science and Law (CHSL)
19. Citizens' Health Initiative (Malaysia)
20. Colombian Council of Bishops
21. Committee of Oversight and Cooperation in Health (Colombia)
22. Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) (Malaysia)
23. Corporación Innovarte (Chile)
24. Doctors for America
25. EKPIZO (Consumer Association the Quality of Life) (Greece)
26. Empower India
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27. Essential Inventions
28. European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
29. Fundación IFARMA (Colombia)
30. Global Health Advocates
31. Global Justice Now (UK)
32. Health Action International (HAI)
33. Health Action International Asia-Pacific (HAIAP)
34. Health and Trade Network (HaT)
35. Health Global Action Project (Health GAP)
36. Health Innovation in Practice (HIP)
37. Heart to Heart Foundation, Thailand
38. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
39. Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
40. Just Treatment (UK)
41. KEI Europe (Switzerland)
42. Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
43. Korean Pharmacists for Democratic Society (KPDS)
44. LWC Health
45. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign
46. MEZIS (Germany)
47. Misión Salud (Colombia)
48. ONG Políticas Farmacéuticas (Chile)
49. People’s Health Institute (PHI) (South Korea)
50. People’s Health Movement (PHM)
51. Positive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+)
52. Public Eye (Switzerland)
53. Salud por Derecho (Spain)
54. Salud y Farmacos (USA)
55. Section 27 (South Africa)
56. Stichting Farma ter Verantwoording (Pharmaceutical Accountability
Foundation) (The
Netherlands)
57. STOPAIDS (UK)
58. T1International
59. The Thai Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (Thailand)
60. Third World Network (TWN)
61. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) (South Africa)
62. Treatment Action Group (TAG)
63. Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT)
64. Universidades Aliadas por Medicamentos Essenciais (UAEM Brasil)
65. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
66. Wemos (The Netherlands)
67. Yale Global Health Justice Partnership
68. Yolse (Switzerland)
69. Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN)
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Individuals (in alphabetical order)
1. Aidan Hollis. Professor of Economics, University of Calgary.
2. Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law, Yale Law School.
3. Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA, Professor, Tufts University, School of
Medicine, Boston,
MA, USA, Co-Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy.
4. Beverley F Snell, Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), Coordinator -
Health Action
International Asia Pacific.
5. Brian Citro. Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker
School of Law.
6. Brook K. Baker, Professor at Law, Northeastern University School of Law
7. Dinesh Abrol, National Working Group on Patent Laws, India.
8. Dr. Ellen ‘t Hoen, Medicines Law & Policy.
9. Dr. Jennifer Sellin, Assistant Professor of International & European
Law, Maastricht
Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University, and Visiting Professor
Dalla Lana
School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
10. Dr. Katrina Perehudoff, post doctoral researcher, University of Toronto
& Ghent
University.
11. Dr. Krisantha Weerasuriya, Independent Consultant, WHO Retiree and
Former
Secretary of the Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential
Medicines.
12. Dr. Mogha Kamal-Yanni, Public health and access to medicines
consultant, United
Kingdom.
13. Dr. Rafael J. Pérez Miranda, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -
México.
14. Fifa Rahman, Board Member Unitaid NGO Delegation and PhD Candidate
(International Trade and Intellectual Property), University of Leeds.
15. Gilberto de Lima Lopes Junior, MD, MBA, FAMS. Associate Professor of
Clinical
Medicine, Medical Director for International Programs, Associate Director
for Global
Oncology, Co-Leader, Lung Cancer Site Disease Group, Sylvester Comprehensive
Cancer Center at the University of Miami and the Miller School of Medicine.
16. Graham Dutfield, Professor of International Governance, School of Law,
University of
Leeds.
17. Gregg Gonsalves, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial
Diseases, Yale
School of Public Health.
18. Joel Lexchin, MD. Member Emeriti-School of Health Policy & Management,
Faculty
of Health, York University.
19. John Wilbanks, Open Source advocate - United States of America.
20. Jordan Jarvis. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
21. Lawrence Gostin, University Professor, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
22. Marcus Low, Spotlight, South Africa.
23. Margo A. Bagley, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory University
School of
Law, Faculty Fellow, Emory Global Health Initiative, Senior Fellow, Centre
for
International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Collaborator, Harvard
University Global
Access in Action (GAiA) Program.
24. Marie-Paule Kieny, PhD. Director of Research, Institut national de la
santé et de la
recherche médicale (INSERM), Chair, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
Board
of Directors.
25. Melissa Barber. PhD student, Harvard University.
26. Meri Koivusalo, Prof Global Health and Development, Tampere University,
Finland.
27. Michael H. Davis, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
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28. Mohan Rao, Former professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community
Health,
JNU, New Delhi, India.
29. Ophira Ginsburg, MD. Associate Professor, Department of Population
Health,
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Director Perlmutter Cancer
Center
High-Risk Cancer Genetics Program, New York University.
30. Oscar Lizarazo, Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional Colombia.
31. Peter S. Arno, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director, Health Policy Research,
Political
Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst,
MA.
32. Phyllis Freeman, JD, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, MA,
USA, Co-Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy.
33. Prof. Dr. H.D. Banta, former director of the Health Program US
Congressional Office
of Technology Assessment and former Deputy Director of the Pan American
Health
Organization.
34. Radha Holla Bhar (India).
35. Reshma Ramachandran, MD, Family Medicine Physician
36. Rohit Malpani, Alternate Board Member, Unitaid NGO Delegation.
37. Salomé Meyer, Cancer Alliance (South Africa).
38. Shirin Syed, IP Researcher, North Maharashtra University (NMU),
Maharashtra,India.
39. Sol Terlizzi, Academic Coordinator, Master in Intellectual Property,
FLACSO
Argentina.
40. Suerie Moon, MPA, PhD. Director of Research at the Global Health
Centre, Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Adjunct
Lecturer on
Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
41. Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary, Medicus Mundi International.
42. Uma Suthersanen, Advocate and Solicitor to the Supreme Court of
Singapore and
Professor of International Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary,
University of
London.
43. Wilbert Bannenberg, Public Health Consultant, The Netherlands.
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