E-DRUG: Durban: an appeal to the high level panel on medicine
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A call to World Leaders to enhance R&D and access to medicines: An appeal
to the UN High Level Panel
Co-hosted by Treatment Action Campaign, Stop AIDS, Open Society Foundation
and Oxfam
Tuesday 19th July 5:00pm-7:00pm at Elangeni Tower Hotel
Please come and discuss the HLP which was set up by the UN Secretary
General in order to "“recommend solutions for remedying the policy
incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international
human rights law, trade rules and public health in the context of health”
SPEAKERS
Precious Matsoso, Director General, Ministry of Health, South Africa
Tenu Avafia, Team Leader: Rights, Law and Access, UNDP
Lotti Rutter, Advocacy & Campaigns Manager, TAC
Tobeka Daki, HER2+ breast cancer patient
Catherine Tomlinson , OSF researcher
Mohga Kamal-Yanni (CHAIR), Oxfam
Questions to discuss:
· What is the HLP? Where did it come from?
· How does it gather evidence?
· What are the solutions?
· What is the way forwards?
· What is the role of governments and CS?
Food and drinks will be provided at the end
Best wishes مع أطيب التمنيات