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Widespread coverage has been achieved through UNITAID’s influence on the price of life-saving drugs: it guarantees a market through long-term commitments to purchase high volumes of medicines and diagnostics – a commitment made possible by the sustainable and predictable funding of the “air tax.”
Ultimately, microbes will build a resistance to any new drugs that we create, so we also need to seek ways to reduce overall demand for antibiotics.
For its part, the AFM will calculate its benchmark separately for the eight major pharmaceutical companies that currently appear to be working on replacement drugs, generic producers, and firms focused solely on research and development.
As the Review concluded, failure to create effective new drugs could result in ten million people dying from AMR-related diseases every year by 2050, at a cost of some $100 trillion.
One of the more radical ideas we discussed during the Review concerned financial “pull” incentives to reward firms that successfully develop new drugs.
The new benchmark’s overall score for a firm can be broken down into three separate categories: its commitment to research and development for new drugs; its manufacturing, production, and environmental standards; and its marketing and distribution practices, which should focus on ensuring access rather than excess.
The benchmark’s third category concerns biotech firms, which conduct research into drugs that can combat the “priority pathogens” identified by the WHO.
But the new road has raised concerns, particularly in the US, that it could serve as a smuggling route for drugs and weapons, so the military feels obliged to set up checkpoints.
First and foremost, the US generates the huge demand for illicit drugs that sustains the entire Latin American mafia, just as the US experiment with alcohol prohibition in the 1920’s fueled the rise of gangsters like Al Capone.
Governments that had been reticent about extending AIDS drugs to sex workers, gay men, and refugees were suddenly forced to recognize these populations’ right to services.
And, in a world where borders are becoming increasingly porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must mobilize international coalitions to address shared threats and challenges.
Governments and donors can build clinics and schools, for example, but the investments are meaningless if the drugs and books aren’t delivered, or if the nurses and teachers don’t show up to work.
Just as Volkswagen uses its A5 platform to build 19 different vehicles, from luxury Audi A3s to small SUVs and budget models, a biological chassis would be a minimal microbial platform onto which could be bolted genetic instructions to make drugs, biofuels, cosmetics, or whatever one desires.
Although the Merck project successfully raised money for Costa Rican biodiversity research, few if any drugs have been developed, and the model has not been transferred elsewhere.
Since the end of communism in 1991, these countries (and others) have experienced a dramatic increase in the use of illicit drugs.
Meanwhile, the flow of drugs continues undiminished.
Repressive policies have never succeeded in eliminating demand for drugs.
They do not tackle any of the economic, social, or health factors associated with the use of illicit drugs.
Locking up drug users is not a solution--in Russia, it is easier to score drugs in prison than outside.
Public health intervention to reduce the damage caused by drugs has been proven--by decades of research in dozens of countries--to be vastly more effective at lowering HIV infection rates and healthcare costs.
The Internet and modern social media are allowing these mass criminal movements to expand their activities beyond kidnapping, extortion, and trafficking in drugs, arms, and people, to include fraud, piracy, information theft, hacking, and sabotage.
In China, fewer than 200 people work at the Center for Drug Evaluation, the agency that reviews applications for new drugs.
Predictably, China’s approval process for new drugs is one of the world’s slowest – eight years on average.
The median time taken to approve new drugs fell from 833 days in 2006 to 306 days in 2012, according to the London-based Center for Innovation in Regulatory Science.
In fact, Bush’s was a brave gesture: despite Uribe’s success in combating drugs, paramilitaries and guerrillas, his capital is not an especially safe place.
Today, most of the US health-care industry is profit-driven, and this is reflected in nearly every decision, from which drugs get developed to who gets insured.
The pharmaceutical industry is at its best when private profitability and social good coincide, as it does when useful new drugs attract large market shares.
Part of the problem is these drugs’ unique importance.
As part of this new model, the signatories committed themselves to provide access to new drugs for all those who need them, increase investment in R&D that meets global public health needs, and help slow the development of drug resistance in humans and animals.
And the scheme would be particularly attractive if it could be implemented on a pay-or-play basis, whereby companies could choose whether to invest in R&D or to contribute to a fund rewarding those whose efforts result in the desired drugs.
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