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31 March 2011
From: Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
Humanitarian University Consortium Graduate Studies
Center for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone: 203-668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet: www.humanitarian.net
Millennium Medicine Project
Url: http://www.pathobiologics.org/mmp
Never Give Up: Cancer Education Initiative
Url: www.unarts.org/nevergiveup
Subject: MedScape: Oncology Drug Shortage
- TRIPS/DOHA - International Public Health Emergency
In 2006, an OIE/FAO/WHO International Bar Association level dialogue focused
on the formal declaration of an international public health emergency
for challenges associated with HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Pandemic
Influenza. The focus was to facilitate conditional licensing for the
production of generic drugs by UN member countries:
The TRIPS Agreement, as clarified by the Doha Declaration,
makes it clear that WTO members can engage in compulsory licensing with
respect to pharmaceuticals needed to address an international public
health emergency. [1]
GLOBOCAN 2008 estimates, about 12.7 million cancer cases
and 7.6 million cancer deaths are estimated to have occurred in 2008; of these,
56% of the cases and 64% of the deaths occurred in the economically developing
world. [2] The scope of this epidemic demands classification under
the umbrella of an international public health emergency to facilitate
mass production of needed drugs to assist treatment, especially on the village
medicine level in developing countries with 6 billion of the world's population.
[3,4]
Medscape Special Report – March 28, 2011
Special Report: Cancer Drug Shortage
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resources from Medscape, WebMD and Medscape Education.:
STEPS TO OVERCOME THE SHORTAGE
Legislation to Combat the Oncology Drug Shortage
Medscape Interview With Michael Link, MD
What Oncologists Can Do to Weather the Storm
Medscape Business of Medicine
A Call to Action
Commentary by Maurie Markman, MD
Making Do: Getting by Without Leucovorin
Commentary by John Marshall, MD
Early Warning System for Prescription Drug Shortages
Medscape Medical News
WHAT YOU'RE UP AGAINST
Ongoing Drug Shortages Hitting Oncology Hardest
Medscape Medical News
Cancer Drug Shortages Are Placing Patients at Risk
Medscape Medical News
Drug Shortages: National Survey Reveals High Level of Frustration
ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® Acute Care Edition
References:
1. Declaration/Scope - International Public Health Emergency: Pathobiologics
International, November 2006. Url: http://www.pathobiologics.org/btac/UNIHR1292007.html
2. Global cancer statistics: CA Cancer J Clin 2011; 61:69-90
doi: 10.3322/caac.20107. Url: http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/content/short/61/2/69
3. Millennium Medicine Project: Humanitarian Resource Institute, Pathobiologics
International, United Nations Arts Initiative. Url: http://www.pathobiologics.org/mmp
4. Never Give Up: Cancer Education Initiative: United Nations Arts Initiative.
Url: http://www.unarts.org/nevergiveup
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