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WHO Future In Question, Debate Over Industry Representation

By Intellectual Property Watch

A seemingly overworked and impoverished World Health Organization opened its Executive Board session today with calls for reform amid deep concerns about its financial future. Meanwhile, dissension arose over an industry representative named by the WHO secretariat to a new research and development funding working group, sparking the WHO director general to cast doubt on the role of industry in such groups.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).