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Loading ...Brazil Proceeds with Compulsory Licensing of Antiretroviral Drug / Brasil continua com a licença compulsória de medicamento antiretroviral
Monday, October 6th, 2008Temas Observation: All developing nations have had the clear right to resort to compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals since the adoption of the Doha Declaration by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. Brazil has long reserved this right under its own laws, although previously it has been hesitant to actually use the power, preferring instead […]
Brazil to Invest R$25 Million by 2012 on Anti-HIV Vaccines / Brasil vai investir R$25 milhões até 2012 em vacinas anti-HIV
Sunday, October 5th, 2008From Brazil’s National Program on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS (STD-AIDS): R$ 25 million to be invested in Anti-HIV Vaccines by 2012 During the next four years the Brazilian Ministry of Health will invest R$ 25 million in research into the development of a vaccine against AIDS. The resources will be applied in human resource […]
Nominate a LAC Candidate for the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards
Saturday, September 20th, 2008The deadline for nominating candidates for these awards is 15 December. There are many worthy candidates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) — my friends at Barbados Free Press, for example, have suggested a worthy one in the hopes that such an award will help boost tourism on that island. I am not going […]
LAC Meeting on Norm for Energy Management
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Synopsis in English: Last February (while The Temas Blog was on hiatus) the International Standards Organization (ISO) decided to create a new project committee (PC 242 – Energy Management) to develop a new ISO management standard — already designated ISO 50001 — on energy management. The standard will aim at a certifiable approach to increasing […]
Gas Flaring, LAC & Climate Change
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Take a look at the two images to the right. The first is of an offshore platform flaring gas. The second (click to enlarge) is a computer-enhanced satellite photo of gas flaring off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. Yes, if you use the right technique, you now can document flaring from space. Why is […]
Flu Vaccine Technology to Be Transfered to Brazil, Mexico
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007From the World Health Organization (WHO): WHO facilitates vaccine technology transfer to developing countries As part of a concerted effort to ensure more equitable access to a potential pandemic influenza vaccine, six developing countries are being awarded grants to establish in-country manufacturing capacity for influenza vaccine. The countries are Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and […]
Another Poll Suggests LAC Takes Climate Change Seriously
Thursday, March 15th, 2007The recent ACNielsen poll suggested that Latin American nations may take the global climate change issue more seriously than most. A new poll just published on the WorldPublicOpinion.org website appears to confirm it. The 17-nation* poll was organized by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (formerly the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations). The countries picked […]
LAC the Most Aware Public About Climate Change?
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007I’m seeing press briefs bouncing around the internet over the past 24 hours reporting that a recent ACNeilsen survey of 25,408 people in 46 nations* found that the US public is the least aware and least concerned about global climate change, whereas the public in the four Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) nations surveyed […]