HEALTH-THAILAND: New Gov't Opposes Cheap Generic Drugs
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Feb 20 2008 (IPS) – Shortly before he left office in January, Thailand s former public health minister, Mongkol Na Songkhla, offered a gift of hope to the country s poor. But that promise to supply cheaper, generic anti-cancer drugs -now hangs in the balance.
Mongkol s push to secure the generic drugs by issuing compulsory licenses (CLs) is being opposed his successor, Chiya Sasomsab, whose recent announcement to cancel a plan for affordable drugs to treat breast, lung, pancreatic and ovarian cancer has raised howls of protest from public health activists.
Some activists are even weighing the possibility of legal action against the new public health minister if he goes through with his plan. We have already begun discussing with lawyers a…
80 Percent of Adolescents Do Less than 60 Minutes of Activity per Day, UN Health Agency Warns
According to the study, the Philippines had the highest inactivity levels among boys, at 93 per cent, while in South Korea, researchers found that 97 per cent of girls failed to do enough exercise. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22 2019 (IPS) – An alarming lack of exercise among adolescents across the world risks seriously compromising their health into adulthood, the UN said on Thursday.
In the first study of i…