[Ip-health] MSF event in Milan: Crisis on Access to Medicines

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

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=93CRISIS OF ACCESS TO MEDECINES=94

Friday, 17th November 2006

Palazzo delle Stelline, C.so Magenta, 61 Milan

OPENING

9.00=09=09Partecipants=92 Registration and accreditation of journalists
9.15=09Address by the Executive Director of Medici Senza Frontiere Italy


First Session

Moderator: Nicoletta Dentico, DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases
Initiative)


9.45=09Serafino Zucchelli, Ministry of Health, Italy

10.20=09 =09Tido von Schoen-Angerer =96 Director of Access Campaign
to Essential Medecines, Doctors Without Borders

10.50=09Roberto Salvan =96 General Director UNICEF Italy

11.30 =09Coffee Break

12.00=09=09=09Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires

12.30=09Gangte Loon =96 Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS


13.00=09=09Lunch Break




SECOND SESSION
Round Table 1
Health and Inequality: The Crisis of Research and Development for
Neglected Diseases

Moderator: Gianna Milano, journalist

15.00      Catherine Royce,  programme manager -  LEAP platform/DNDi

15.30 =09Claudio Jommi - Head of the Pharmaceutical Observatory
Centre for Research on health care management - Bocconi University

16.00=09=09Ellen =91t Hoen =96 Campaign for Access to Essential Medecines,
Doctors Without Borders

16.30=09=09Ahmed Ogwell =96 Director of International Health Department,
Ministry of Health, Kenya

17.00=09=09Raymond Merat, Permanent representative of =93International
Association of Democratic Lawyers at the Human Rights Council=94 of the
United Nations

Round table 2
TRIPS: What Impact on Access to Drugs?

Moderator: Barbara Gobbi, journalist =93Il Sole 24 Ore=94  Sanit=E0


15.00       Shashikant Sangeeta =96 Third World Network

15.45=09=09Lucio Poma- Professor of Political Economy, University of Ferrar=
a

16.20=09=09German Velasquez =96 OMS, Essential Drugs and medecines Policy

17.00         Ratan Singh - Indian HIV/AIDS Positive People



18.00=09CONCLUSIONS




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Thiru Balasubramaniam
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