UN Panel Report: Positions Still Polarized Over Medicines Access Barriers
Executive Summary
The report by the independent panel shows that the companies that develop and produce medicines, and the non-governmental organizations working on health issues at local level, still disagree fundamentally on the best way to go about improving access to those medicines. While R&D firms are skeptical of the report’s recommendations, the feeling among NGOs seems to be that this report represents something of a landmark development in the access debate.