E-DRUG: UNITAID: Release of latest progress report "Five Years of Innovation for Better Health"
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[NITAID released the above mentioned report at a press conference 11 May in
Geneva. Worth reading! Moderator
The report can be accessed here:
http://www.unitaid.eu/media/annual_report_2011/index.html
In today's environment it is vital that we think of new ways to finance
international health and development, to be more targeted and effective in
our interventions, to make the money yield better results.
Since late 2006, UNITAID has led the way on a number of innovative
initiatives that have had profound impact on millions of lives and the way
we work in global health. Among some of the salient results: it has
succeeded in getting 400 000 children living with HIV on child-friendly
treatment; introduced better, more affordable medicines and diagnostics into developing country markets; raised 1.3 billion through the air ticket levy alone (about 65% of its revenue); created the Medicines Patent Pool - a one-stop shop for patent licensing to increase access to cheaper medicines, and more.