The Prospects for an IP Waiver Under the TRIPS Agreement
Going forward, practical solutions should focus on scaling up manufacturing and supply, and improving access and affordability.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism
As the rich get richer, those of low socioeconomic status are doubly marginalized by the classism that characterizes the international pandemic response.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health
In concentrating on largely Western conceptions of health, the international pandemic response paid insufficient attention to realities in the Global South.
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Read more: The Inevitability of Error in Health Care The Inevitability of Error in Health Care
A recent publication by the WHO seems to have rekindled conversations about the “inevitability of error” in the field of patient safety.
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Read more: A Dose of Perspective on World Patient Safety Day A Dose of Perspective on World Patient Safety Day
We should not forget that all is not well at home, and that some systems are failing, causing avoidable patient injury, and, in some cases, death.
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Read more: Questioning the Comparative Relevance of US Abortion Jurisprudence Questioning the Comparative Relevance of US Abortion Jurisprudence
The June Medical and Alliance for Open Society decisions call into question the contemporary comparative relevance of U.S. abortion jurisprudence.
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Read more: WHO and Global Patient Safety: A View from Across the Pond WHO and Global Patient Safety: A View from Across the Pond
As the organization shoulders sustained disparagement from President Trump, it is worth highlighting the critical work the WHO has done over the years.
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Read more: Ebola and the Return of Quarantine Ebola and the Return of Quarantine
By Wendy Parmet [Ed. Note: Cross-posted from HealthLawProf Blog.] Last month’s riots in an Ebola-infected slum in Monrovia, Liberia demonstrated anew the perils of relying on quarantine, and similar highly coercive public health laws, to contain highly contagious diseases. At first blush, Ebola viral disease (EVD) is exactly the type of disease for which broad…
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Read more: Art Caplan: WHO Ethics Committee on Ebola Just a Start Art Caplan: WHO Ethics Committee on Ebola Just a Start
Art Caplan has a series of new opinion pieces out on the WHO ethics advisory committee meeting that approved the use of experimental drugs to treat patients ill with Ebola. He suggests deeper exploration of issues of informed consent, corporate responsibility, and resource allocation in this blog post for The Health Care Blog. As he…
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Read more: Art Caplan: The Real Reasons for Worrying About Ebola Art Caplan: The Real Reasons for Worrying About Ebola
Art Caplan has a new opinion piece on NBC News responding to the recent media coverage of Ebola. He makes the case that although this has been the worst recorded outbreak of the disease, citizens of developed countries have little reason to panic: Ebola is not going to run amok in downtown Boston, Cape May or Myrtle Beach or…