Essential Innovation and Access

Access to Essential Medicines

The market-driven model of pharmaceutical R&D does not sufficiently respond to the health needs of population groups who represent a commercially-unattractive market; including diseases predominantly found in developing countries. Moreover, even within the EU, recent cuts in medicines expenditure have shown that governments are struggling to pay the price of profit-driven innovation. Sustainability is a real issue and where the market fails, new models of health-driven R&D that promote affordable access must be explored.

News

April 2012 - HAI and the Alianza LAC-Global support the WHO’s Consultative Expert Working Group’s (CEWG) recommendation that negotiations begin on a binding biomedical R&D convention. There is an international consensus on the failures of the current R&D system and this recommendation brings to a close a more than 10 year effort by the international community to formulate a structural solution to a systemic failure in R&D meeting global health needs. Read the HAI/Alianza Policy Brief (EN): here and in Spanish (ES): here.


Policy Briefs & Reports

May 2012 Joint HAI and Allianza LAC-Global Policy Brief - A binding biomedical R&D convention: a structural solution for systemic failure (EN) (ES)

April 2012 Joint HAI Europe - TACD Policy Paper: Time for the EU to lead on innovation: EU policy opportunities in biomedical innovation and the creation of public knowledge goods (EN)

October 2009 Joint HAI Europe - Oxfam Report Trading Away Access to Medicines (EN) (FR) (ES)

March 2009 Advanced Market Commitments: Current Realities & Alternate Approaches