[e-drug] Access to Meds conference Milan, Italy, 17 Nov

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E-DRUG: Access to Meds conference Milan, Italy, 17 Nov
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[MSF Italy is organising a conference on  access to medicines this Friday in Italy.  Please find below the agenda. For further information, please contact  Barbara Galmuzzi on  00 39 334 3190073 or  Silvia Mancini on  00 39 335 6976157; WB ]

CRISIS OF ACCESS TO MEDECINES

Friday, 17th November 2006
Palazzo delle Stelline, C.so Magenta, 61 Milan

OPENING

9.00   Participants Registration and accreditation of journalists
9.15   Address by the Executive Director of Medici Senza Frontiere             Italy

First Session

Moderator:   Nicoletta   Dentico,   DNDi   (Drugs  for  Neglected  Diseases Initiative)

9.45           Serafino Zucchelli, Ministry of Health, Italy

10.20          Tido von Schoen-Angerer Ãââ Director of Access Campaign
               to Essential Medecines, Doctors Without Borders

10.50          Roberto Salvan, General Director UNICEF Italy

11.30          Coffee Break

12.00          Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires

12.30          Gangte Loon Ãââ Indian Network for People Living with
               HIV/AIDS

13.00          Lunch Break

SECOND SESSION

Round Table 1
Health and Inequality: The Crisis of Research and Development for Neglected Diseases

Moderator: Gianna Milano, journalist

15.00          Catherine Royce,  programme manager -  LEAP
               platform/DNDi

15.30          Claudio Jommi - Head of the Pharmaceutical Observatory
               Centre for Research on health care management - Bocconi University

16.00          Ellen ÃâËt Hoen Ãââ Campaign for Access to Essential
               Medecines, Doctors Without Borders

16.30          Ahmed Ogwell Ãââ Director of International Health
               Department, Ministry of Health, Kenya

17.00          Raymond Merat, Permanent representative of ÃâÅInternational
               Association of Democratic Lawyers at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations

Round table 2

TRIPS: What Impact on Access to Drugs?

Moderator: Barbara Gobbi, journalist ÃâÅIl Sole 24 OreÃâ  SanitÃ

15.00   Shashikant Sangeeta, Third World Network

15.45   Lucio Poma, Professor of Political Economy, University of Ferrara

16.20   German Velasquez, OMS, Essential Drugs and medecines Policy

17.00   Ratan Singh,  Indian HIV/AIDS Positive People

18.00   CONCLUSIONS

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