Tag: legal principles

Bergeijk, June 2, 2022 The Italian Competition Authority (ICA) decided on 31 May that pharmaceutical company Leadiant has charged the Italian National Health Service excessive prices for the life-saving medicine Chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA), and issued a fine of €3.5million.  “We believe that pharmaceutical companies have a duty of care to make...

On 27 January we hosted the second part of our webinar series The Power of Law. This second part was dedicated to presenting our recently published Guidelines for Legal Procedures by NGOs, which we illustrated with examples from practice. Missed the webinar or want to listed back a part...

Online event on Thursday 27 January 2022. Register here. The Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation (PAF; in Dutch: Farma ter Verantwoording) aims to promote equitable, affordable access to medicines. Pharmaceutical companies say they respect the UN Business and human rights principles. But in our GCCP project and scorecard we have found...

Recently, the Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation (Farma ter Verantwoording) was on the cover of the Pharmaceutical Weekly Journal (Pharmaceutisch Weekblad, PW). PAF’s Wilbert Bannenberg and Richard van Slobbe were interviewed about PAFs mission and goal. “The Pharmaceutical Accountability acts on pharma pirates who abuse their economic dominance and massively raise drug...

We feel inspired by yesterday's engaging event. Panelists shared their stories about using legal strategies for promoting access to medicines, ranging from HIV treatment action campaigns, using human rights to promote access to medicines in Brazil, compulsory licensing in Russia, TRIPS flexibilities, and the possibility of holding pharma accountable...