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IGWG booklet: Putting Patients First: New Directions in Medical Innovation

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
MedInov_briefing_PuttingPatientsFirst_ENG_2008.pdf

MSF's collection of interviews and essays on some of the gaps in medical research and access and some proposals to reform the current system. Contributions include the following:

  • Dr Tido Von Schoen-Angerer: WANTED: New Ideasto Steer and Finance Medical Research & Development, and Ensure Access to Medicines
  • Dr Liesbet Ohler: Calling All Governments: Put Patients’ Needs First!
  • Martine Usdin: Dying For a Test: “We need to Break the Cycle of Neglect”
  • James Love: “And the Winner is…” How the Prize Model Could Help Deliver Needed Drugs and Diagnostics
  • Dr Alexandra Calmy: Is AIDS a Neglected Disease?
  • Dr Bernard Pecoul: “Innovation Depends on Public Leadership and Not just Public Funding”
  • Dr Jose Luis Dvorzak  and Dr Victor Conde: Falling Through the Cracks: Working to Fight Chagas Disease with Limited Tools
  • Laurent Gadot: Advance Market Commitments: Are They Worth the Hype?
  • Dr Peter Saranchuk: ‘Outrageous’ Cost of Medicine Condemns AIDS Patients to Blindness
  • Martin Khor: DOHA Derailed