HRC REPORT: This update of the 2004 DFID study explains recent alignments between TRIPS and domestic laws in India and China and the practical implications for access to raw material and finished product supply of important medicines like tenofovir for AIDS and artemisinin combination therapies for malaria.
In pharmaceutical management, distribution schemes for medicines can be defined as “push” or “pull” systems. In a pull system, each level of the system determines the types and quantities of medicines needed and place orders with the supply source. In a push system, supply sources determine the types and quantities of medicines to be delivered… Read more
Dr Helen Elsey is from the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds. In this HEART Talks she talks through the urban health HEART reading packs that she has put together with Dr Siddharth Agarwal from the Urban Health Resource Centre in India. The three reading packs are: A) Data and evidence,… Read more
