With efforts continuing to maximize access to medical countermeasures against the pandemic threat, a webinar organized by NGOs looked at progress with and the shortcomings of the WHO’s C-TAP initiative, recent moves by the WHO on access provisions in funding agreements, and plans for a global C-TAP database.
Medicines access advocates have welcomed the licensing deal signed this month by the US National Institutes of Health with two global organizations for 11 innovative COVID-19 products, saying that the political significance of the move “cannot be ignored.”
The deal struck between the NIH, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool...
The Pink Sheet highlights recent comments and insights from pharma officials and executives on key issues we are covering.
To help sponsors developing candidate mpox vaccines, the World Health Organization will soon be finalizing guidance on the preferred and minimum characteristics these products must satisfy regarding efficacy, dose regimen and other aspects to secure regulatory approval.
The WHO’s emergency committee has warned of a lack of understanding of the epidemiology of mpox, the limited availability of vaccines, and the complexities of donations and procurement.
An ongoing collaborative initiative involving global regulators assessing post-approval manufacturing changes has highlighted the need to establish a standardized platform that can facilitate the submission and regulatory evaluation of such changes.
A new research ethics review system for multi-site clinical trials in Canada is expected to help improve study start-up times, avoid unnecessary duplication and boost the country’s competitiveness on a global stage.
With the deadline for comments on the US FDA’s draft guidance less than a month away, the Pink Sheet offers an infographic outlining what the agency is expecting in diversity action plans and when that might be implemented.
