Coherence for health
Subtitle: innovation for new medicines for infectious diseases.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: The developement dimension; Development dimension
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789264060142
Subjects: Pharmaceutical policy -- Congresses; Drug development -- Congresses; Communicable diseases -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Pharmaceutical industry -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: In developing countries, 6 out of 10 people die from infectious diseases. Nearly 1 billion humans suffer from a neglected infectious disease, according to the World Health Organization. Yet less than 1% of the new drugs placed on the market from 1975 to the turn of the century were developed for these diseases. This book looks at ways of improving the availability of medicines for infectious diseases through strengthened coherence in health, trade, science and technology, development cooperation and finance.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "[This publication] brings together the report, outcomes and background papers for the High-Level Forum on Policy Coherence: Availability of Medicines for Neglected and Emerging Infectious Diseases (HLF), held in June 2007 in Noordwijk-aan-Zee, Netherlands"--P. 4.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Neglected and emerging infectious diseases : why it is an issue now; title: What are the problems? : why is it in the economic interest of OECD countries to address these problems?; title: Present policy solutions being used to address the problems of neglected infectious diseases; title: Moving forward : solutions and next steps.