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News on drug donations October 2002 - Results monitoring proposal Wemos during WHO technical briefing
During the WHO
technical briefing seminar, taking place from 30 September until 4 October 2002 representatives of the consortium Medicines Crossing Borders had the opportunity to present the monitoring proposal. People from all over
the world were attending the seminar, and it turned out to be an inspiring exchange of thoughts on drug donations and how to be informed on what is happening in the field. Read more
September 27, 2002 - Do you agree monitoring
of the Guidelines on drug donations is necessary? Then join the supporters list!
Click here to add your name to the supporters list.Read more about the monitoring system.
September 23, 2002 - International Health Consortium presents monitoring system at WHO technical meeting
Monitoring of Guidelines on drug donations is needed! The International Health Consortium ’Medicines
Crossing Borders’ - consisting of Difäm from Germany, Prosalus from Spain, ReMed from France and Wemos from the Netherlands – will be presenting their ideas on a monitoring system for the Guidelines on drug donations
during the WHO technical briefing seminar, taking place from 30 September until 4 October 2002.Read more.
September 10, 2002 – Inappropriate drug donations, article by Wemos,
Difam, Prosalus and ReMed in Student BMJ
Drug donations sent to “help” developing countries can actually do more harm than good. In this article, Iris Stehmann explores the reasons and explains what should be
done instead.Click here to go to the article May 6, 2002
In 2001 the Spanish group of the Medicines crossing borders project (Prosalus)
presented a proposal to all the Parties in Congress. The proposal asks for including into the Law of Drug the following paragraph:
“Guidelines for Drug Donations of World Health Organisation (WHO/EDM/PAR/99.4) shall
be respected when sending medicines to developing countries”. (read more in English) (read more in Spanish)
May 6, 2002 - New leaflets available in English and German
DIFÄM developed and
published three different leaflets to explain the concept of the Guidelines to different target groups: action groups, doctors and private individuals/laymen in German language. These leaflets are to be downloaded in
pdf-format :
www.difaem.de/amh_media.htm.
A coloured leporello (120x26cm) titled “Guidelines for drug donations-a bridge to health” is available in English and
Spanish language.
Interested in these publications? Please send an E-mail to: amh@difaem.de. January 3, 2002 - Pills to Africa: how to donate effectively – BMJ article
Click hereto go to the article. November 14, 2001 - Appropriate Drug Donation checklist based on the WHO guidelines,
Are you interested in donating medicines to developing countries? STOP! There is a checklist available.
Click here to go to the checklist. August 18, 2001 - Article by Beverley Snell published in The Lancet,
Volume 358, Number 9281, on Inappropriate Drug Donations and the Need for Reforms.
Click here to read the article. June 30, 2000 - Newsletter: 'Dutch drug donation campaign completed successfully'
The campaign 'Towards better quality of drug donations from the Netherlands', was completed successfully in December 1999. Click here to read the results of the campaign.
June 3, 2000 - Report 'Unusable medicines "dumped" on Venezuela' by Claire Wallerstein.
The British Medical Journal carries a report of the effect of drug donations not according to the WHO guidelines. Click here to read the report.
April 28, 2000 - First years experiences with guidelines for drug donations (PDF- file)
WHO has made available via her web pages an evaluation report on the first year experiences with theInter-agency Guidelines for Drug Donations.Click here to download the PDF-file (36 pages A4).
February 28, 2000- Replies to publishing 'Investigation into industrial motives'
Electronic mailing list discussions on the results of an investigation into what is causing
donations of drugs by US pharmaceutical companies that do not comply with the guidelines for drug donations (see news item below). February 11, 2000- Investigation into industrial donations' motives
The results of an investigation into what is causing donations of drugs by US pharmaceutical companies that do not comply with the guidelines for drug donations. Click here for the full text of the analysis and solution. Published on the drugdonations.org site with the courtesy of Scott Hillstrom. January 25, 2000 - WHO's Essential Drugs Monitor on donations
Number 27 (1999) of WHO's Essential drugs Monitor (EDM) has several articles on the drug donations issue.Click here to download from WHO's internet pages the full EDM, or click here to read the articles from this website. October 28, 1999 - Guidelines now online
The new released interagency guidelines for drug
donations can be found online on these drugdonations.org pages. Please click here to access these guidelines. September 14, 1999-"It's time to call a halt to poor drug donation practice".
An article published in the September issue of Scrip Magazine, by Phillipa Saunders. September 13, 1999-Essential Drugs List from Turkey.
Especially interesting for those organizations that want to donate medicines for Turkey. September 9, 1999-Proceedings of the expert seminar on appropriate drug donations.
A summary of the proceedings of the first day of the European expert seminar on appropriate drug donations held June 11 and 12 in the Netherlands, has been published on this web site. August 16, 1999-An Assessment of US Pharmaceutical Donations
A study by the Harvard school of Public Health into the relevance and time-to-expiry of pharmaceutical donations by the USA. June 11, 1999- Educational video 'Making drug donations better with care'
Launch of a video about the complex issue of drug donations. For everyone involved in donating medicines to people in need. June 11, 1999- Appropriate drug donations - the time to act is now!
Press conference at the European expert seminar on appropriate drug donations (June 11 and 12, 1999).
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