Press Release – AFTINET As the 16th round of Trans-Pacific trade talks between Australia, the US and nine Asia Pacific countries begin in Singapore this week, academics and health groups will discuss the potential impact on women’s lives of US demands for more corporate …
Press Release – Oxfam The United States is again pursuing an important free trade agreement that will lock in high drug prices out of poor peoples reach this time across the Asia-Pacific region, warns international agency Oxfam.
Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First is asking why the Government is introducing plain packaging of tobacco products while it is negotiating the deeply-flawed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Press Release – AFTINET “US proposals on medicines were attacked by civil society groups and are being resisted by Australia and most of the eleven countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) trade negotiations which finish today in Auckland,” Dr Patricia Ranald, …
Press Release – New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case.
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Column – Gordon Campbell Remember how the Key government has justified being so very, very secretive about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) because goodness me, you don’t negotiate these things in public? Well, guess who has just been negotiating the TPP in public?
Article – Werewolf
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the role of drug-buying agency PHARMAC will change radically under the terms of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) currently being negotiated between 11 Asian and Pacific-rim countries including …
Press Release – Alcohol Action NZ Can Hon Tim Groser, Minister of Trade, reassure us all that the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will not prevent the government enacting effective new alcohol laws to combat the heavy drinking culture in New Zealand, involving price, marketing, …
Press Release – Medicines New Zealand Providing solutions to help New Zealand’s health system better serve its people is at the heart of Medicines New Zealand’s message at the Trans Pacific Partnership meetings in Dallas this week. In a speech delivered to a stakeholder meeting in Dallas, …
Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit The government’s proposed changes for funding of glucose meters and strips for diabetes care is ill-advised and not in the best interests of patients, according to Democrats for Social Credit health spokesman, David Tranter.
