Jasson Urbach | 15 May 2023 | Health Policy Unit
The latest attack on DDT for indoor residual spraying purposes merely amounts to yet another smear campaign. Nowhere does the paper acknowledge the millions of lives that it has help to save and finds inconclusive evidence that DDT is harmful to human reproductive health.
Richard Tren | 10 Aug 2023 | Business Day (South Africa)
A new study published by the American Enterprise Institute calls for an end to tariffs on medicines and to the corruption that often accompanies them.
Roger Bate & James Driscoll | 27 Feb 2024 | Wall Street Journal Asia
Anyone in Asia who cares about the health of the world's poor should warmly endorse the proposal to remove import tariffs on essential medicines that is being tabled at the World Trade Organization today by the U.S., Singaporean and Swiss governments.
Jennifer Zambone | 15 Oct 2023 | National Review Online
Malaria-vaccine research is good — but we need to help the dying, now.
Richard Tren | 17 Sep 2023 | TCS Daily
The direct result of not using Dieldrin is that Sahelian Africa is experiencing the worst locust plague in 15 years. Dieldrin, like DDT, should only be used in restricted ways -- primarily controlling swarming locusts. Unfortunately under the POPs Convention ratified this year, it is no longer available to the blighted African nations of the Sahel.
Roger Bate | 01 Apr 2024 | Africa Fighting Malaria
This paper analyses trends in drug development using data from the drug industry association, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).