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7/10/2020

Reaction SOMO/Wemos to government reaction to report ‘Overpriced’

On 27 August 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK) responded in a letter to the House of Representatives to the report ‘Overpriced: drugs developed with Dutch Public Funding’ (SOMO / Wemos, May 2019). Read more

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6/10/2020

Over 500 organisations and academics call on IMF to stop promoting austerity in coronavirus recovery period

More than 500 organisations and academics from 87 countries, including Wemos, have issued a statement today calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop promoting austerity and instead support policies that advance gender justice, reduce inequality, and put people and planet first. Read more

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2/10/2020

How Covid-19 test kit producer Qiagen receives public money but avoids taxes

New research by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) shows that the German coronavirus test producer Qiagen has been able to dodge millions of euros in tax since 2010 thanks to tax avoidance constructions in Ireland, Luxembourg, the US and Malta. Read more

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12/9/2020

Our analyses of the Global Financing Facility in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

Wemos’ four new papers are part of a series about the Global Financing Facility (GFF) at national level and show the GFF process in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more

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11/9/2020

Health workers on the move (again): another look at the WHO Code of Practice

In 2010, the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (or ‘the Code’) was adopted after strong calls for joint, global measures to address the international recruitment of health personnel. Read more

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2/9/2020

Political youth and civil society organisations demand socially responsible medicine development

License to Heal, a coalition of political youth organisations, and civil society organisations Wemos and the Commons Network have chosen not to sign an agreement of the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) on socially responsible licensing. Read more

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17/8/2020

This is how we can counteract vaccine nationalism

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, national governments have been scrambling to secure treatments and vaccines that are currently in development. These efforts, being dubbed the relatively new term ‘vaccine nationalism’, will ultimately hamper equitable access to much needed COVID-19 technologies. Read more

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10/8/2020

The Global Financing Facility at five: time for a change?

Where does the Global Financing Facility and its ambitions and objectives stand today, five years after its implementation in multiple countries? Read more

Blog

30/7/2020

Why the VIG code of conduct fails to put health first

Earlier this year, the Association Innovative Medicines (or Vereniging Innovatieve Geneesmiddelen – VIG – the industry association for the Dutch branches of innovative pharmaceutical companies) published its new code of conduct. Unfortunately, in a time when high medicine prices are a pressing societal problem, the code omits any mentioning of the pharmaceutical industry’s pricing policy. Read more