People’s health must come first
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas, News Clipping | No Comments »Safeguarding access to cheaper medicine for poor people. Oxfam, together with other international and local civil society groups-- Ayos na Gamot sa Abot Kayang Presyo, Cancer Warriors Foundation, Cut the Cost Cut the Pain Network, and Third World Network--submitted 28 key recommendations ...
Filipinos still don’t have full access to cheaper medicines
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas, News Clipping | No Comments »By Ma. Elisa P. Osorio | Sunday, October 12, 2008 Filipinos still do not have full access to cheaper medicines as the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) crafted by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) do not ensure ...
News clipping: NGOs want cheaper medicines law strengthened
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas, Glenn Maboloc, News Clipping | No Comments »Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 06:32am (Mla time) 09/17/2008 MANILA, Philippines--The implementing rules and regulations of what is known as the cheaper medicines law — Republic Act 9502, “An Act Providing for Cheaper and Quality Medicines” — should not allow big foreign ...
Civil society groups urge immediate relief through parallel importation and compulsory licensing of affordable medicines
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas, OXFAM RELEASES, Tul Pinkaew | No Comments »International agency, Oxfam today lauds the signing of the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008 by the President and urges the executive agencies - Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry and the Intellectual Property Office, to commence the drafting ...
Media Clipping, Philippine’s Arroyo signs cheaper medicines law
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas, Tul Pinkaew | No Comments »By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication Date: 06-06-2008 Philippine President Gloria Arroyo signed here Friday (June 6) a new law that aims to bring down the price of medicines by encouraging more competition in the local market through parallel importation of cheaper ...
House Bill 2844, also know as the Cheaper Medicines bill, passed the third and final reading.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas | No Comments »(Its counterpart bill in the Senate has long since passed, last Oct 22) Oxfam supported the advocacy for the bill and has campaigned for it too since late 2006 together with our indefatigable partners (Cut the Cost, Cut the Pain ...
A2M Campaign in the Philippines: Roller Coaster Ride to Success
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas | No Comments »Story By Elmira Bacatan, Campaign Officer, Philippines "2007 was a roller coaster ride," says Candy Diez, an Oxfam partner-campaigner on Access to Medicines (A2M) in the Philippines. She recounts how in the early part of the year the Cheaper Medicines bill ...
Medicines IN THE Philippines
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas | No Comments »Will the campaign for Affordable Medicines in the Philippines win the fight against the big pharmaceuticals to change the patent laws?
Access to Medicine: Drama Unfolding
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Campaigns & Advocacy, Access To Medicine, Philippines/Pilipinas | No Comments »By Elmira Bacatan, Campaigns Officer In the next few weeks Oxfam in the Philippines is anticipating three landmark decisions to be concluded concerning the on going battle between pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, and the Philippines government; and the passing of the Cheaper ...
