[Ip-health] WikiLeaks: Big Pharma infiltrates WHO Expert Working Group process; WikiLeaks infiltrates Big Pharma

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

http://tllg.net/gp3x6z

Released December 9, 2009

Summary

This is a confidential pharmaceutical industry trade association
dossier about the WHO Expert Working Group (EWG) on R&D Financing.

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers &
Associations (IFPMA; "Big Pharma") gave its members 4 documents: a non-
public draft report of the WHO EWG and a non-public Comparative
Analysis done by the working group, the IFPMA Overview of the EWG
Comparative Analysis, and IFPMA summary slide on the EWG Draft Report.

The compilation of documents shows the influence of "Big Pharma" on
the policy making decisions of the WHO, the UN body safeguarding
public health. These confidential documents were obtained by the drug
industry before their public release to WHO member states (scheduled
to be released May 2010). The document also illustrates that the WHO
expert group was highly responsive to industry lobbying =97 a result
that public health groups had feared since early 2009, when the expert
group met with the industry, but refused to meet with public health
groups known to be industry critics.



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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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