Academic Resources: Topical Resources
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Pharmaceuticals
research tools
- How to investigate the use of medicines by consumers (pdf) from the WHO, University of Amsterdam, and Royal Tropical Institute
- Public health, innovation and intellectual property rights from the WHO
- The World Medicines Situation (pdf 1052KB)
- Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy, WHO
- Intellectual Property Watch
Original, open-access news and analysis on international IP policymaking. - Medicine
Prices: a new approach to measurement
In May 2003 Health Action International (HAI) and the World Health Organization Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy published a working draft of a manual to collect and analyse the prices people pay for a selection of important medicines, as well as identifying price components (taxes, mark-ups etc.) and the affordability and availability of key medicines. Below is all the information needed to conduct a survey, plus data from surveys already undertaken using the manual (both as individual survey profiles and a database of results).
MSH: International Drug Price Indicator Guide
The International Drug Price Indicator Guide allows you to search for drugs using several criteria (name, letter, therapeutic class), and to select a currency and a specific year. - The International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD)
- PharmWeb: pharmaceutical information on the internet plus special interest pages
- Promoting
Rational Drug Use - A CD-ROM Training Program
Hosted by Boston University School of Public Health, this website contains complete PRDU course materials that you can download to your computer. - Pie-chart
of the global pharmaceutical market, 2002 ($406 billion)
from the presentation, "Compulsory Licensing and Parallel Imports will improve Access to AIDS Drugs," Richard Laing, Boston University School of Public Health. - Medicine Guides
The Medicine Guides website provides free access to up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable information about prescription and over-the-counter medicines available in the UK. - Counterfeit medicines in less developed countries: Problems and solutions, Julian Morris and Philip Stevens, International Policy Network
- Eldis resource guide: Access to medicines
- useful links -- Pharmaceutical Policy and Programming in Developing Countries, Boston School of Public Health
policy
- World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (html
| pdf)
- Erice Declaration of the Ethical Principles of Pharmacogenetic Research
(html)
- Uppsala Declaration on Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones (html)
TRIPS
- World Trade Organization: Implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health. Decision of the General Council of 30 August 2003
- Editorial: New deal from the World Trade Organisation may not provide essential medicines for poor countries. British Medical Journal 2003;327:571-572 (13 September).
- Patent
Exception for Exports to Address Health Needs -- from the Consumer Project
on Technology
- Campaign
for Access to Essential Medicines -- Médicins sans Frontières
- Patents
and Medicine -- from the Health Gap Global Access Project
- government and regulatory bodies -- from PharmWeb
bibliographies
- bibliography
from the International Network
for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) -- available as cd-rom
- bibliography
-- compiled by Molly Ryan, Fall 1997, for the Human Rights Center: Institute
of International Studies, UC Berkeley
- A Collection of Articles on Disease Mongering in PLoS Medicine
syllabi
- Drugs,
Politics and Culture, Hugh Gusterson, MIT, Spring 1998
- Anthropology of Pharmaceutical Practice and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Mark Nichter, Anthropology and International Health, University of Arizona, Spring 2002 (Word document)
- more College Courses in Drugs and Drug Policy - from the Drug Policy Alliance
online discussions
- E-Drug
-- hosted by SatelLife
- E-Drug
-- E-Drug Archives: all 10 years of E-drug existence
- international
mailing lists -- from PharmWeb
- international
discussion groups -- from PharmWeb
- national
discussion groups -- from PharmWeb
- pharmacy-related newsgroups -- from PharmWeb
