E-DRUG: "Health for Development" campaign in Barcelona, Catalonia
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[Reports from a pharmaceutical campaign in Catalonia; WB]
Proposals of the Campaign "Health for Development" regarding access to
Medicine
In 2008, throughout roundtables and the screening of films and
documentaries carried out within the framework of the campaign, several
aspects of drugs have been analysed:
- access to medicines as a human right,
- the problem of research and development of medicine for neglected
diseases,
- ethics in clinical trials and information of medicine that
arrive to society, as well as
- future prospects to improve access to medicine in developing countries and
- alternatives to the current model of research based on monopolies.
Results of this analysis, different advices and conclusions have been
drawn. We have sent them as proposals to Health, Cooperation and Industry
Committees of the Parliament of Catalonia (Parlament de Catalunya).
Among those proposals concerning improvement of access to medicine we highlight:
- establishing a global system of regulation of clinical trials with
medicine,
- avoiding direct advertising to consumers of medicine that
require doctor's prescription,
- supporting the World Health Assembly's resolution WHA 61.21 and implementing and putting into practice alternatives to the present model of research and development.
We hope that these proposals will be taken into account in the Catalan
parliamentary framework that discusses these corresponding matters.
The campaign "Health for Development" of the NGOD Farmacéuticos Mundi and
Medicus Mundi Catalunya counts on the support of the Catalan Cooperation
Agency for Development and the Barcelona City Council-Barcelona Solidària.
Further information is shown at the campaign's web page (in Catalan and in
Spanish): http://www.salutxdesenvolupament.org/es/node/436
regards,
M. Elena Garcia i Pujadas
Coordinadora
"Salut per al desenvolupament"
+34 679 46 48 12
info@salutxdesenvolupament.org
www.salutxdesenvolupament.org