Philippe Douste-Blazy

Following are UN Under-Secretary-General Philippe Douste-Blazy’s remarks at the launch of the “MASSIVEGOOD”, in New York, 4 March:
Mr. Secretary General,
Mr. President Clinton,
Mr.Prime Minister, Dear Jean Chrétien,
Dear Ministers, Ambassadors,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My sincere thanks to all of you for coming this morning for the launch of the first global volontary  citizens’ solidarity movement.
As you know, Official Development Assistance [...]

Paris Match, n° 3166, du 21 au 27 janvier 2010
Le calvaire du peuple haïtien n’a pas commencé le 12 janvier
Par Philippe Douste-Blazy, ancien ministre, Président d’UNITAID, Secrétaire Général Adjoint des Nations-Unies.
« C’est la plus abominable catastrophe à laquelle j’ai assisté, me dit samedi le représentant sur place de Ban Ki-moon. Nous ne pourrons pas sauver [...]

Article by Andrew Jack in Financial Times (15 December 2009)
Nine western pharmaceutical companies face fresh pressure to ease control over their HIV medicines following the establishment of an international mechanism designed to increase treatment access in the developing world.
The board of Unitaid, the French-backed health funding agency, voted on Tuesday to create a “patent pool” [...]

UNITAID EXECUTIVE BOARD APPROVES BREAKTHROUGH PLAN TO MAKE AIDS TREATMENT MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE AT LOWER COST
PATENT POOL COULD SAVE OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
Geneva, 14 December 2009 — Today UNITAID’s Executive Board made a landmark decision to establish a Patent Pool for AIDS medicines.  The pool, scheduled to start operating in mid-2010, aims to [...]

A Memorandum of Understanding is being signed today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between Cyprus and UNITAID, said the government today.
The Memorandum was signed at 11am by Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Ambassador Nicholas Emiliou, on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Chairman of the Executive Board of UNITAID, former Minister [...]