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14/10/2020

Wemos satisfied with unique ruling in case Menzis vs. AstraZeneca

Today the court ruled that the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has to refund the excessive price the company charged for the drug Seroquel to the health insurance company Menzis. The exact amount has yet to be determined. It is the first time that a health insurance company in the Netherlands has sued a pharmaceutical company. Read more

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14/10/2020

Analysis and policy recommendations on the accountability at the EMA

Since the COVID-19 crisis has started, we have seen governments pressuring their own regulatory agencies to speed up the process of marketing authorisation. To make sure that this marketing authorisation process is done independently and transparently, the concept of accountability is key. Read more

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7/10/2020

Dutch Aid & Trade in health at odds with health equity

For the last 10 years, the Netherlands has been pursuing an Aid & Trade agenda. It combines development in low and middle-income countries (Aid) with the interests of Dutch companies and investors in these countries (Trade). Read more

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7/10/2020

Reaction SOMO/Wemos to government reaction to report ‘Overpriced’

On 27 August 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK) responded in a letter to the House of Representatives to the report ‘Overpriced: drugs developed with Dutch Public Funding’ (SOMO / Wemos, May 2019). Read more

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6/10/2020

Over 500 organisations and academics call on IMF to stop promoting austerity in coronavirus recovery period

More than 500 organisations and academics from 87 countries, including Wemos, have issued a statement today calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop promoting austerity and instead support policies that advance gender justice, reduce inequality, and put people and planet first. Read more

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2/10/2020

How Covid-19 test kit producer Qiagen receives public money but avoids taxes

New research by the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) shows that the German coronavirus test producer Qiagen has been able to dodge millions of euros in tax since 2010 thanks to tax avoidance constructions in Ireland, Luxembourg, the US and Malta. Read more

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12/9/2020

Our analyses of the Global Financing Facility in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

Wemos’ four new papers are part of a series about the Global Financing Facility (GFF) at national level and show the GFF process in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. Read more

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11/9/2020

Health workers on the move (again): another look at the WHO Code of Practice

In 2010, the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (or ‘the Code’) was adopted after strong calls for joint, global measures to address the international recruitment of health personnel. Read more

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2/9/2020

Political youth and civil society organisations demand socially responsible medicine development

License to Heal, a coalition of political youth organisations, and civil society organisations Wemos and the Commons Network have chosen not to sign an agreement of the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) on socially responsible licensing. Read more