Thiru Balasubramaniam
@thirugeneva.bsky.social
"He urged another official to make sure that countries were not required to rule out compulsory licensing or parallel imports to take part in the deal. And he advised the agencies to press for inclusion of drugs other than antiretrovirals. Few if any of those goals were reached."
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"He urged another official to make sure that countries were not required to rule out compulsory licensing or parallel imports to take part in the deal. And he advised the agencies to press for inclusion of drugs other than antiretrovirals. Few if any of those goals were reached."
"Leon Fuerth, national security adviser to Vice President Gore, expressed private skepticism at the industry's hurry. It sounded, he told one U.N. official, like one of those stock pitches that is good only for a day."
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"Leon Fuerth, national security adviser to Vice President Gore, expressed private skepticism at the industry's hurry. It sounded, he told one U.N. official, like one of those stock pitches that is good only for a day."
"The United Nations might be pushed into the role of apportioning life-and-death benefits among its sovereign constituents, which was untenable."
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"The United Nations might be pushed into the role of apportioning life-and-death benefits among its sovereign constituents, which was untenable."
"Even if they reduced prices by 90 percent and made ART [antiretroviral therapy] available to patients for $ 1,000 a year, this would still put it out of reach for the vast majority of people in Africa."
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"Even if they reduced prices by 90 percent and made ART [antiretroviral therapy] available to patients for $ 1,000 a year, this would still put it out of reach for the vast majority of people in Africa."
"In the second week of April, Annan's advisers drafted a briefing memo full of disquiet. The industry's offer "leaves far more questions than it answers," the memo said, adding that any announcement in that form would raise expectations that could not possibly be fulfilled."
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"In the second week of April, Annan's advisers drafted a briefing memo full of disquiet. The industry's offer "leaves far more questions than it answers," the memo said, adding that any announcement in that form would raise expectations that could not possibly be fulfilled."
"Glaxo's Cochrane flew from London to Washington to see World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn the next day. Bristol-Myers Chairman Charles A. Heimbold Jr., a social acquaintance of Kofi Annan by way of their Swedish-born wives, called on the U.N. secretary general."
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"Glaxo's Cochrane flew from London to Washington to see World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn the next day. Bristol-Myers Chairman Charles A. Heimbold Jr., a social acquaintance of Kofi Annan by way of their Swedish-born wives, called on the U.N. secretary general."
"Playing on old rivalries between the WHO and the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS, or UNAIDS, Bristol-Myers' Weg waited a week after Brundtland heard from Gilmartin to brief Peter Piot, the head of UNAIDS."
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"Playing on old rivalries between the WHO and the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS, or UNAIDS, Bristol-Myers' Weg waited a week after Brundtland heard from Gilmartin to brief Peter Piot, the head of UNAIDS."
Washington Post, December 2000: "He took Brundtland's counsel at gatherings of the global government and business elite in Davos, Switzerland, and he helped her round up $ 1 million in private funds for her signature campaign against tobacco deaths." @who.int @weforum.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Washington Post, December 2000: "He took Brundtland's counsel at gatherings of the global government and business elite in Davos, Switzerland, and he helped her round up $ 1 million in private funds for her signature campaign against tobacco deaths." @who.int @weforum.org
Washington Post, December 2000: "In Brundtland, a former Norwegian prime minister, pharmaceutical firms saw a likely ally. Gilmartin had cultivated her for more than a year."
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Washington Post, December 2000: "In Brundtland, a former Norwegian prime minister, pharmaceutical firms saw a likely ally. Gilmartin had cultivated her for more than a year."
Washington Post, December 2000: "The "prior to launch" rollout schedule, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, assigned emissaries, dates and a priority of First, Second or Third to 209 individual contacts in government and public health." @unitaidngos.bsky.social @who.int
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Washington Post, December 2000: "The "prior to launch" rollout schedule, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, assigned emissaries, dates and a priority of First, Second or Third to 209 individual contacts in government and public health." @unitaidngos.bsky.social @who.int
Washington Post, December 2000: "In the six weeks after Gilmartin's March 26 call on Brundtland at WHO headquarters, the companies dispatched executives in careful sequence to secure advance support." @who.int
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Washington Post, December 2000: "In the six weeks after Gilmartin's March 26 call on Brundtland at WHO headquarters, the companies dispatched executives in careful sequence to secure advance support." @who.int
"The other was "parallel importing," in which a country purchases products at lower cost in another market and resells them, without the manufacturer's consent, at home."
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"The other was "parallel importing," in which a country purchases products at lower cost in another market and resells them, without the manufacturer's consent, at home."
Washington Post (December 2000): "How to frame the last proviso became the most contentious dispute among the companies. Some wanted the U.N. partners explicitly to renounce use of two mechanisms that limited the industry's price-setting power."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Washington Post (December 2000): "How to frame the last proviso became the most contentious dispute among the companies. Some wanted the U.N. partners explicitly to renounce use of two mechanisms that limited the industry's price-setting power."
Washington Post (Dec 2000) "Finally, the firms wanted support from all concerned for "adequate and enforced intellectual property rights" to "provide the prospect of a satisfactory return on investment in the high-risk search for new medicines." @fifarahman.bsky.social @grahamdutfield.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Washington Post (Dec 2000) "Finally, the firms wanted support from all concerned for "adequate and enforced intellectual property rights" to "provide the prospect of a satisfactory return on investment in the high-risk search for new medicines." @fifarahman.bsky.social @grahamdutfield.bsky.social
"If the U.N. agencies agreed that AIDS drug treatment was "a shared responsibility of all sectors of society," then companies were willing to acknowledge that "affordability is an issue in developing countries."
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"If the U.N. agencies agreed that AIDS drug treatment was "a shared responsibility of all sectors of society," then companies were willing to acknowledge that "affordability is an issue in developing countries."
"Drugs would be sent only into "an efficient, reliable and secure distribution system" to prevent interruptions of treatment and diversion of products to other markets."
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"Drugs would be sent only into "an efficient, reliable and secure distribution system" to prevent interruptions of treatment and diversion of products to other markets."
Washington Post (December 2000): "International agencies would have to assume responsibility for building up health care infrastructures capable of monitoring patients and their compliance with dosing schedules." @spring-gombe.bsky.social @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @emilybass.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Washington Post (December 2000): "International agencies would have to assume responsibility for building up health care infrastructures capable of monitoring patients and their compliance with dosing schedules." @spring-gombe.bsky.social @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @emilybass.bsky.social
Washington Post (Dec 2000): "The five things the companies required before making price cuts began with "unequivocal and ongoing political commitment" by the recipient countries."
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Washington Post (Dec 2000): "The five things the companies required before making price cuts began with "unequivocal and ongoing political commitment" by the recipient countries."
"These made up the core, nearly word for word, of the "joint statement" that would be issued with the United Nations two months later."
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"These made up the core, nearly word for word, of the "joint statement" that would be issued with the United Nations two months later."
"The companies implied, but never stated directly, that they would cut prices of their AIDS drugs steeply in the developing world. But they had five conditions for such a move."
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"The companies implied, but never stated directly, that they would cut prices of their AIDS drugs steeply in the developing world. But they had five conditions for such a move."