E-DRUG: Access to Meds conference Milan, Italy, 17 Nov
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[MSF Italy is organising a conference on access to medicines this Friday in Italy. Please find below the agenda. For further information, please contact Barbara Galmuzzi on 00 39 334 3190073 or Silvia Mancini on 00 39 335 6976157; WB ]
CRISIS OF ACCESS TO MEDECINES
Friday, 17th November 2006
Palazzo delle Stelline, C.so Magenta, 61 Milan
OPENING
9.00 Participants Registration and accreditation of journalists
9.15 Address by the Executive Director of Medici Senza Frontiere Italy
First Session
Moderator: Nicoletta Dentico, DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative)
9.45 Serafino Zucchelli, Ministry of Health, Italy
10.20 Tido von Schoen-Angerer – Director of Access Campaign
to Essential Medecines, Doctors Without Borders
10.50 Roberto Salvan, General Director UNICEF Italy
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires
12.30 Gangte Loon – Indian Network for People Living with
HIV/AIDS
13.00 Lunch Break
SECOND SESSION
Round Table 1
Health and Inequality: The Crisis of Research and Development for Neglected Diseases
Moderator: Gianna Milano, journalist
15.00 Catherine Royce, programme manager - LEAP
platform/DNDi
15.30 Claudio Jommi - Head of the Pharmaceutical Observatory
Centre for Research on health care management - Bocconi University
16.00 Ellen ‘t Hoen – Campaign for Access to Essential
Medecines, Doctors Without Borders
16.30 Ahmed Ogwell – Director of International Health
Department, Ministry of Health, Kenya
17.00 Raymond Merat, Permanent representative of “International
Association of Democratic Lawyers at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations
Round table 2
TRIPS: What Impact on Access to Drugs?
Moderator: Barbara Gobbi, journalist “Il Sole 24 Ore†SanitÃ
15.00 Shashikant Sangeeta, Third World Network
15.45 Lucio Poma, Professor of Political Economy, University of Ferrara
16.20 German Velasquez, OMS, Essential Drugs and medecines Policy
17.00 Ratan Singh, Indian HIV/AIDS Positive People
18.00 CONCLUSIONS
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