Dear friends,
The 49th World Health Assembly is meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland. One
of the topics on the agenda is a progress report on WHO's Revised Drug Strategy.
A resolution is likely to be adopted to give renewed support to WHO's Drug
Action Programme.
Health Action International was present with a delegation from Asian, Latin
American, African and European countries. A briefing document was distributed to
WHA delegates in english, french and spanish. The paper discusses 4 topics:
- drug promotion
- drug pricing
- drug export and imports
- drug donations
A copy of the english text is available from the healthnet server by sending an
email to:
majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
with no subject, and in the text only the following words:
get e-drug policy.txt
For those who want a copy of the spanish or french version, please send such a
request to: hai@hai.antenna.nl
Barbara Mintzes, HAI
email: hai@hai.antenna.nl