Team Unity supports cheap, high-quality drug imports
MANILA — Team Unity senatorial candidates support the “parallel importation” of low-priced drugs, as a way to expand the poor’s access to cheaper medicine and health care.
Youths urge Davao bets to prioritize reproductive health
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Davao Teen Center (DTC), together with the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP), demanded the local candidates of Davao City to include Reproductive Health (RH) policies as their top priority in their legislative agenda.
Jamail Lunar Macla, Youth Coordinator of DTC, pointed that this has been a long time struggle of young people in the city that the problem in reproductive health must be prioritized since there are no comprehensive local legislative order to arrest the said problem of the city.
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Oxfam urges cancellation of Pfizer’s patent on hypertension drug
MANILA, Philippines — International agency, Oxfam urges the Intellectual Property Office
(IPO) to cancel the patent of Pfizer on anti-hypertension drug,
Norvasc in the Philippines following the recent decision of the US
Court of Appeals nullifying the patent granted to Pfizer for
amlodipine besylate, Norvasc’s active ingredient.
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Philippines: TU Wants Strict Penalty for Water Polluters
Team Unity senatorial candidates will support the passage of new legislation imposing stricter penalties on polluters of water sources.
Senatorial candidates Edgardo Angara, Michael Defensor, Cesar Montano, Tessie Aquino-Oreta, Luis “Chavit” Singson, and Vicente “Tito” Sotto III said there is a need to pass laws that would deter the pollution of the diminishing water sources in the Philippines.
Philippines to File Petition to Cancel Pfizer’s patent on Norvasc
MEDIA ADVISORY PRESS BRIEFING Cancellation of Pfizer's patent on Norvasc May 8, 2007, 11 am to 1pm Bacolod Chicken Inasal Jupiter St., Makati City SPEAKERS: ? Shalimar Vitan ? Oxfam…
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