Archive for July, 2006
AGAP’s response to PHAP’s Leo Wassmer Letter to the Editor
This is AGAP’s response to the Letter to the Editor (Parallel importation of drugs an unnecessary solution) by PHAP’s Leo Wassmer that was published on Page A14 of the July 1, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Dear Editor,
This is in response to the letter of Leo Wassmer of PHAP dated 1 July 2006 where [...]
Medical Terrorism
by Angelito Mendoza
Published on www.batasnews.com
‘There was a time not long ago that pharmaceutical companies were merely the size of nations. Now, after a frenzied two-year period of pharmaceutical mega-mergers, they are behemoths, which outweigh entire continents. The combined worth of the world’s top five drug companies is twice the combined GNP of all sub-Saharan Africa [...]
No Free Lunch
by Raoul A. Bermejo III, MD
I just received the degree of Doctor of Medicine and these days a new physician has many things to be bothered about –an eroding public image of the doctor, the crisis of health worker migration, and the lack of access of many Filipinos to health care. But while these issues [...]
AGAP Issue Briefing No. 2 – Counterfeit Medicines
Background
In the first Convenor’s Meeting, Obet Pagdanganan raised the issue of an ad put up by a Pfizer-supported group, the Coalition Against Counterfeit Medicines, which denigrates suspiciously-priced medicines, i.e., low-priced medicines as fakes. DOH said they will check their affiliation with this group and take the appropriate action but the matter of what to do [...]
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