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Making TRIPS flexibilities work: Civil society's role, challenges and successes
Making TRIPS flexibilities work: Civil society's role, challenges and successes
The use of TRIPS flexibilities has proven to be a powerful policy tool to improve access to health technologies. While some measures are widely accepted, others, like compulsory licensing, continue...
TRIPS flexibilities and access to medicines: A three-level framework
TRIPS flexibilities and access to medicines: A three-level framework
The recording of a seminar on the implementation of TRIPS flexibilities at domestic, regional and multilateral levels to improve access to patented medicines around world. The seminar focused on th...
Beyond Access to Insulin: Tanzania approach
Beyond Access to Insulin: Tanzania approach
Did you know that thousands of people in Tanzania are living with diabetes and many don’t even know it? In this short clip from Beyond Access to Insulin film we highlight how communities in Tanzan...
Beyond Access to Insulin: Kyrgyzstan approach to #DiabetesCare
Beyond Access to Insulin: Kyrgyzstan approach to #DiabetesCare
Ensuring access to insulin, care, treatment, education and support to combating stigma & discrimination are defining Kyrgyzstan approach to #DiabetesCare. Hear out from people living with diabetes
What are the risks of AI in mental healthcare?
What are the risks of AI in mental healthcare?
Before using AI tools for mental health, ensure you understand their privacy policies. Are they clear about how your data is used, stored, and protected? We heard privacy concerns raised when we ta...
What are the risks of AI in mental healthcare?
What are the risks of AI in mental healthcare?
The increasing use of AI in mental healthcare, including through the use of chatbots, raises questions as to trust and contextual understanding. We took to the streets of Amsterdam to capture insig...
Beyond Access to Insulin: A Story of Two Approaches to Care
Beyond Access to Insulin: A Story of Two Approaches to Care
Ensuring access to insulin is essential for all who need it. But for people to use insulin optimally, they must also have access to many other elements, including care, education and support. En...
Introducing the Monitoring Access to Insulin (MAIn) Tool and Dashboard
Introducing the Monitoring Access to Insulin (MAIn) Tool and Dashboard
Health Action International (HAI)’s ACCISS Study has developed the Monitoring Access to Insulin (MAIn) tool for the regular monitoring of the availability and prices of insulin, delivery devices, b...
Health and AI: A better-balanced narrative
Health and AI: A better-balanced narrative
Beneath the overly positive narrative promoting AI used in the health sector as a cost effective and essential tool to improve lives lies a much more nuanced reality in which major risks exist.
Public Pharma for Europe: The Case of CAR-T Cell Therapy
Public Pharma for Europe: The Case of CAR-T Cell Therapy
On far too many occasions, publicly funded medical research that leads to successful health technologies fails to prioritize global access in licensing and marketing strategies. As public research ...
Overview of PHRAME Project (2023)
Overview of PHRAME Project (2023)
Over 2023, our team working on the Promoting Health Rights and Access to Medicines in Europe (PHRAME) project has carried out a variety of activities contributing to achieving concrete results to p...
Licensing and Access to Medicines and Vaccines - 22 November 2023
Licensing and Access to Medicines and Vaccines - 22 November 2023
Public support, through funding and other form of assistance, is critical for biomedical research & development (R&D) and instrumental in allowing innovative health technologies reaching marke
When the AI Team went to Brussels
When the AI Team went to Brussels
Last week, the HAI AI and communications teams visited Brussels to hold a breakfast briefing for journalists. The briefing aimed to provide journalists with the opportunity to learn more about the ...
AI in elderly care
AI in elderly care
Artificial intelligence is widely developed and used in elderly care. Strong regulation is necessary to keep care accessible, patient-centric and compassionate. Watch this video to find out how we ...
AI in de ouderenzorg
AI in de ouderenzorg
Artificiële intelligentie wordt op grote schaal ontwikkeld en gebruikt in de zorg voor ouderen. Sterke regelgeving is nodig om de zorg toegankelijk, patiëntgericht en menswaardig te houden. Bekijk ...
Joint Statement: Navigating Health Inequalities in the EU through AI
Joint Statement: Navigating Health Inequalities in the EU through AI
A Joint Statement of the European Union (EU) Health Policy Platform Thematic Network* 2022-23, Navigating Health Inequalities in the EU through Artificial Intelligence (AI), focuses on actions need...
How to Realise a Health-Centric AI Act
How to Realise a Health-Centric AI Act
Deep dive into the Artificial Intelligence Act and health with experts Sofia Palmieri and Hannah van Kolfschooten. This webinar will cover the following topics: - Find out what the AI Act means fo...
Licensing and Access to Medicines
Licensing and Access to Medicines
Our expert panel identifies and discusses the barriers to non-exclusive licensing and other forms of public return on public investment by public research organisations and their impact on access t...
The TRIPS Agreement Laid Bare - November 2022
The TRIPS Agreement Laid Bare - November 2022
"The TRIPS Agreement Laid Bare: Learning the lessons of COVID-19 to improve access to health technologies", is a new policy paper that provides an account of the history of the TRIPS agreement and ...
Empowerment in Action: Shaping the future of Adolescent SRH in Global Health
Empowerment in Action: Shaping the future of Adolescent SRH in Global Health
Drawing on evidence and best practices from EU-funded adolescent SRHR programmes, Health Action International, Rutgers, MSI Reproductive Choices and Plan International, jointly hosted this event in...