-The Hindu Business Line Agreement between Viatris, MedAccess and TBA to slash cost by 34 per cent on pretomanid A new agreement among drugmaker Viatris, MedAccess, and TB Alliance looks to reduce the price of pretomanid, a drug used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, by 34 per cent. The agreement will help expand access to this critical new treatment in more than 140 countries, including those with the highest TB burden, said a joint...
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Voluntary Licensing Agreements between MPP and Big Pharma – Increasing Monopoly Power -Richa Chintan
-Newsclick.in The recent agreements between Medicine Patent Pool and Big Pharma are being projected as benevolent gestures from pharma companies in sharing their patented technologies with other countries. The fact is it is working towards cementing its monopoly power further. The development of anti-viral Oral pills to combat COVID-19 will, hopefully, make the fight against the pandemic more promising. While Merck has developed the anti-viral pill Molnupiravir, Pfizer has come up with...
More »Govt widens choice of birth-control methods for women -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In order to give women wider choice, the government has introduced a mix of birth-control measures, including injectable contraceptives and new Oral pills, under the national family planning programme, health minister J P Nadda has said. Age-old condom brand 'Nirodh' has been given a makeover with a new logo and communication strategy, led by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador, to give a boost...
More »Female sterilization up 36%, males’ dips 24% -Himanshi Dhawan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Despite the botched Chhattisgarh sterilization the number of women who underwent sterilization surgery increased by 36% even as male sterilizations dropped to below 25% last year. According to health ministry data accessed through RTI the number of female sterilizations has increased from 30.22 lakh in 2012-2013 to 41.28 lakh in 2013-2014. Male sterilizations-which were already low-dropped further from 1.20 lakh to 91,652 in the same period. A...
More »Deadly target -Jyotsna Singh
-Down to Earth Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy THERE WAS nothing right about the sterilisation camp held on November 8 in Chhattisgarh's Takhatpur block of Bilaspur district. An overambitious government doctor-with unsterilised equipment and virtually no manpower-set out to conduct laparoscopic tubectomy on 83 women in an abandoned private hospital. The mass sterilisation led to the death of 13 women and left others critically ill. They were...
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