-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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Contraception and family planning is a woman’s job -Sonikka Loganathan
-The Hindu Although both men and women have knowledge of various modern contraceptive methods, NFHS-5 data show that women continue to bear the burden of family planning Awareness of family planning and contraception among Indians is widespread, with over 99% of married men and women between the ages of 15-49 knowing at least one contraceptive method. Still, not all women find their family planning needs being met. While there are many reasons...
More »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 »Male sterilisations simpler, but the more complicated female procedure is what India opts for -Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in According to National Family Health Survey 4 data, 35.7% of all family planning procedures in India are female sterilisations while only 0.3% account for male sterilisations. New Delhi: The case of Chhattisgarh’s 101 female sterilisations that took place last week in Surguja district, in a matter of hours, has thrown light on the procedure itself. Tubectomy, or female sterilisation, is the most complicated of all available contraceptive methods. Yet, it is the...
More »Poonam Muttreja, executive director, Population Foundation of India, interviewed by Jagriti Chandra (The Hindu)
-The Hindu We need to address inequality, and social and gender discrimination, says Poonam Muttreja, Population Foundation of India In the recent past, States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam, and and Union Territories like Lakshadweep, have proposed to implement a two-child norm as a pre-condition for getting government jobs or to get nominated or elected to Panchayat elections. What has been the impact of such policies so far? Jagriti Chandra interviewed executive...
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