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Namibia has submitted a proposal to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria requesting funds to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country.
Canada's minister of health, Tony Clement, and France's minister of health and solidarity, Xavier Bertrand, have signed a joint declaration of intent that outlines mutual action the two countries plan to undertake in the next four years in areas such as pandemic influenza preparedness.
Swiss drugmaker Novartis has announced the delivery of its first shipments of Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine to the United States for the 2006-2007 influenza season.
A new report on Thailand's program to provide free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to people living with HIV/AIDS suggests that even developing countries with few resources may be able to deliver the life-saving drugs on a large scale, according to the World Bank.
More problems at Patheon's Puerto Rican production facilities in the third quarter of 2006 are expected to reduce the contract manufacturer's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) by more than $9m (7m) compared to last year, forcing it to negotiate its credit agreement with its lenders.
The Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) has recommended to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) that EPIX Pharmaceuticals' novel blood pool imaging agent Vasovist should be approved in Australia.
South Korean pharmaceutical companies accused the United States of demanding what they call "excessive" protection for intellectual property rights of U.S. medicines in talks for a proposed free trade agreement between the two nations.
The Chinese
drug regulator said Tuesday that Anhui Huayuan Worldbest Biology Pharmacy, which makes an antibiotic that has been suspected in six deaths in China, had broken the country's pharmaceutical production rules by using an unapproved method and equipment to sterilize and ship the drug.