<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PHM Global Secretariat</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><h1>PHM urges the WHO member states to disengage
the organization from the 'International Conference on Harmonisation' set up
by big pharma</h1>
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<div>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 <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/MMI-PHM%20Statement_Regulatory%20system%20strenghtening_Susana_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">statement</a>. Read the <a href="http://www.ghwatch.org/who-watch/wha67" target="_blank">PHM comentary</a> on the agenda of the 67th WHA.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div>--<br>Global Secretariat<br>People's Health Movement (PHM)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a><br>
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