Health policies

• New tobacco draft too weak to reverse global epidemic, say NGOs (K.Raja)
• Scope of public health can't be restricted to a few diseases, Brundtland (C.Raghavan)
• Seixas Correa tables new chair's text on tobacco treaty (C.Raghavan)
• No new R&D on drugs affecting poor, says new report (K.Raja) 9 Oct 2001
• WHO unduly influenced by large pharma companies, complains Nader (C.Raghavan) 29 Jul 2001
• New victory in campaign for low-cost medications (G.Capdevila) 19 Jul 2001
• FAO/WHO urge greater collaboration over food safety problems (K.Raja) 2 July 2001
• UN member states hedge pledges to fight AIDS (T.Deen) 27 June 2001
• African groups disappointed by UN AIDS declaration (L.Machipisa) 27 June 2001
• Spread of AIDS seen as security threat (J.Lobe) 20 June 2001
• In fact and fiction, US officials play games with AIDS in Africa (G.Mutume) 17 June 2001
• Environment, health activists urge release of dioxin report (D.Knight) 30 May 2001
• Tobacco habit targets women (G.Capdevila) 30 May 2001
• Radical solutions needed for antibiotics resistance (S.Burcher & M.W.Ho)
• NGOs zero in on non-transparent WHO/corporate links (C.Raghavan) 17 May 2001
• HAI voices concern over WHO's 'partnership' with private sector (C.Raghavan) 13 May 2001
• Anti-tobacco activists condemn US obstructionism (G.Capdevila) 4 May 2001
• Activists demand tougher anti-tobacco treaty (G.Capdevila) 2 May 2001
• Differential pricing and politics of health development (H. Bank) 25 April 2001
• Brazil wins international backing for drugs policy (G.Capdevila) 23 April 2001
• Africa: AIDS needs more than money and drugs, say NGOs (S.Sen) 6 Apr 2001
• Poverty, the number one killer worldwide, warns UN (T.Deen) 4 Apr 2001
• Europe: The harm caused by 'unethical' livestock breeding (J.Godoy) 28 Mac 2001
• Africa: Poverty and the AIDS virus (Rahab S Hawa)
• AIDS in Africa: Too little too late (Rahab S Hawa)
• Foot-and-mouth reaches Europe (T.Drago) 13 Mac 2001
• Mad cows and Englishmen: The globalisation of disease (Rahab S Hawa)
• Bush won't fight price break on AIDS treatment (J.Lobe) 22 Feb 2001
• Kenya: NGOs seek to import generic drugs from India (J.Achieng) 22 Feb 2001
• Annan calls for reallocation of budgets to tackle AIDS (M J Sandrasagra) 20 Feb 2001
• Dangerous jabs - The MMR scare (Rahab S Hawa)
• Preventing pathogenic food poisoning: Sanitation not irradiation (S.Epstein & W.Hauter)
• New People's Charter for Health adopted [Full-text of Charter]
• WHO denounces interference by tobacco industry (G.Capdevila) 16 Jan 2001
• Global economic system is bad medicine (R.Devraj) 11 Dec 2000
• Health care needs shot in the arm, activists say (R.Devraj) 8 Dec 2000
• Africa AIDS conference ends with broad consensus (G.Mutume) 7Dec 2000
• World Bank's health policies hurting nations, say critics (R.Devraj) 7 Dec 2000
• Yes to financing Y2K problem, no to AIDS in Africa 6 Dec 2000
• Time to put UN system back on track, activists say (R.Devraj) 5 Dec 2000
• Activists want health on top of agenda 4Dec 2000
• BSE scare leads to surge in natural fodder in France (J.Godoy) 21 Nov 2000
• User fees blamed for cholera outbreak in South Africa (Lean Ka-Min) 26 Oct 2000
• Negotiations for tobacco control to resume next April (C.Raghavan)
• Globalisation and the Impact on Health - A Third World view (Evelyne Hong)
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• WTO free trade rules push up tobacco consumption (S.Singh) (8 Aug 00)
• Baby food manufacturer accused of violating WHO code (S.Singh)
  
• US, Britain and Japan block anti-tobacco convention (G.Capdevila) (30 Mar 00)
• People's Health Assembly 2000  [HTML]  [PDF]
• PHA 2000 - Invitation to participate in pre-Assembly activities  [HTML]  [PDF]
• TRIPS and WHO further marginalizing world's poor (S. Singh)
• TRIPS will push healthcare beyond poor (Muddassir Rizvi)
• Smoking and the poor (Jeremy Seabrook)
• Electronic gadgets proliferating without risk assessment(S Singh)
• Andean meet sounds alert on transgenics (Kintto Lucas)
• FAO wants strict monitoring of meat supplies (Jorge Pina)
• A doctor takes on the tobacco MNCs (Frederick Noronha)
• What does globalisation mean for health? (Diana Smith)
• Sri Lankan "double burden" kills rich and poor alike (Nalaka Gunawardene)
• Tobacco convention needs more teeth (Martin Khor)
• Extend food and drug regulations to tobacco industry (C.Raghavan)
• WHO calls for more equitable world, healthier people
• Canada's deadly trade in asbestos  (Mark Bourrie)
• Governments under pressure to abandon WHO marketing code (IBFAN)
• Experts attack shift in global health strategy (Martin Khor)

Structural Adjustment and Health

• Economic recession, structural adjustment and health (IPHC/TWN)

New and Emerging Diseases

• Commercial Poultry And Its Links to Bird flu (Consumers' Association of Penang)
  
• Japan: Rash of TB cases worries officials (Suvendrini Kakuchi)
• Viral epidemic shows up the crisis of new diseases (Martin Khor)
• New diseases as viruses break species barriers (Martin Khor)
• A new global health crisis:emerging infectious diseases (WHO Report)
• New diseases and renewed threats (WHO Report)
• The political ecology of the resurgence of malaria in India (Mira Shiva/Vandana Shiva)
• BSE:False alarm or Calamity? (Martin Khor)

Traditional Medicine

• Traditional medicine often lauded but neglected (K.Seneviratne) 8 Dec 2000
• Peru: Traditional knowledge enhances modern medicine (A.Lama) (2 Mar  00)
• African medicinal tree threatened with extinction (Judith Achieng)
• Trinidad & Tobago:Traditional healers seek official recognition (Wesley Gibbings)

Drugs

• British NGOs support Pretoria against pharmaceutical firms (S.Sen)
• NGOs disappointed with outcome of essential drugs workshop (C.Raghavan)
• Different pricing for drugs to help people or corporations (C.Raghavan)
• Pharmaceutical TNCs beat a tactical retreat (C.Raghavan) 20 April 2001
• WHO and WTO to hold expert consultations on cheap drugs (C.Raghavan) 16 Mac 2001
• AIDS activists march against pharmaceutical companies (G.Mutume) 12 Mac 2001
• Pressure mounts for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs (G.Mutume) 9 Feb 2001
• Generic drug-makers brace for battle with pharmaceuticals (M.M.Markar) 11 Feb 2001
• Africans spurn US loan offer for anti-AIDS drugs (L.Machipisa) (29 Aug 00)
• Ex-Im Bank loans for AIDS is corporate welfare (C.Raghavan) (21 Jul 00)
• Cheaper AIDS drugs or commercial loans to buy TNC drugs? (G.Mutume) (19 Jul 00)
• Compulsory licensing good for US public, not others (S Singh)
• US: Overuse of antibiotics threatens humans (Danielle Knight)
• US urged to eliminate dioxins (D. Knight)
• Zambia: Growing resistence to life-prolonging AIDS drugs (Zarina Geloo)
• Cuba: Vaccine may open window in US blockade (Patricia Grogg)
• Hostile AIDS activists target Gore over patents (Karine Cunqueiro)
• Assembly adopts new revised drug strategy (C.Raghavan)
• TRIPS and the WHO's revised drug strategy (S Singh)
• Misuse and overuse of antibiotics: Who is to blame? (Ong Beng Gaik/CAP)
• The dangers of antibiotics in animal feed (Martin Khor)

Smallpox

• WHA defers to 2014 decision on smallpox virus stocks destruction by Lim Li Ching (27 May 11)
• Smallpox InfoBriefs
• Smallpox Virus Stocks at the 64th WHA: Implementing the Conclusions of the Major Review (15 Mar 2011)

Misc

• Scientific Memo on Revision of WHO Guidelines on Similar Biotherapeutic Products (2019)
• CAP-SAM Written Submission to MOSTI /AELB: Review of the Lynas documents "Radioactive Waste Management Plan" and "Safety Case for Radioactive Wastes Disposal" (09 Feb 12)
• AELB not adhering to IAEA recommendations on Lynas (09 Feb 12)