Skip to main content
Hit enter to search or ESC to close
Close Search
Action Santé Mondiale
  • Home
  • Identity
  • Causes
    • Fight against pandemics
    • Women and Child’s Health
    • Funding and quality of aid
    • Research and Development
    • All our causes
  • Opinions
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • French
  Research and Development

Promoting transparent and needs-driven
French R&D policies

What’s at stake?

The issue of access to medicines is at the crossroads of research, health and industrial policies. It is a global issue, with on one hand the lack of efficient, new and safe treatments for diseases affecting vulnerable populations such as Tuberculosis and on the other hand, access constraints to innovative therapies against hepatitis or cancer in both poor and rich countries.

Challenges linked to access to treatments has become a problem both for the global south and the global north, and threaten health security, health systems, social protection and patient care.

Research priorities and prices of medicines alike, are today partly defined according to industrial and trade policy considerations, at the cost of public health needs. This situation results from a historical lack of transparency of the health product market : information linked to public biomedical R&D financing, research and production costs from the pharmaceutical industry are neither available nor public. However, this data is key to define faire prices and allow citizen and their representatives to ensure good management of public financing and evaluation of R&D policies.

Our asks:

Considering budgetary restrictions and access to essential medicines being increasingly put into question even by richer countries, and, it is necessary to rethink our health systems in order to guarantee access to treatment for all. We’re asking France to:

  • Fix fair and accessible prices for molecules, including innovative ones, in order to reduce the global envelope dedicated to medicines and ensure as a result sustainability of our health finances and equitable access to health products for patients.
  • Reorient its R&D spending towards underfinanced priority public health sectors which do not represent a market opportunity such as poverty-related diseases and anti-microbial resistance.
  • Develop an ambitious accountability policy for its R&D spending, with full transparency of public funds dedicated to R&D in order to reinforce the negotiation capacity of States on the pharmaceutical market.  This accountability mechanism on traceability of public R&D funds will have to take into account all types of public financing (managed by the EU, co-managed or directly managed by France) as well as tax credits for R&D (such as the research tax credits for instance). Transparency needs to be implemented at all level : from medical research and its financing to price negotiations for health products until commercialisation.
Share Share Share

Global Health Advocates is a French NGO which mission is to carry out political advocacy in France and with the EU institutions to ensure policies and resources are effectively addressing health inequalities. Read our 2022-2027 strategy.

Addresses

Paris Office

Global Health Advocates France
176 rue du Temple
75 003 Paris

Advocacy team
Tel : +33 9 81 85 33 16
Finance & administration
info@ghadvocates.org

Brussels Office

Mundo J
Rue de l’Industrie 10
1000, Brussels

Advocacy Team
Tel: +32 (0)2 893 24 71

Social Networks

GHAFrance avatar; GHA France @GHAFrance ·
10 Jul 1943266845642932334

Délégation parlementaire de GHA en Normandie !

En Normandie, visite de @Nutriset_Fr entreprise 🇫🇷 pionnière dans la lutte contre la malnutrition dans le monde.
@BeatricePiron @mapoussier @SabrinaSebaihi @sandrinejossoan @GerardLeseul sont avec @GHAFrance, @ALIMAong…

Image for the Tweet beginning: Délégation parlementaire de GHA en Twitter feed image.
Image for the Tweet beginning: Délégation parlementaire de GHA en Twitter feed image.
Image for the Tweet beginning: Délégation parlementaire de GHA en Twitter feed image.
Reply on Twitter 1943266845642932334 Retweet on Twitter 1943266845642932334 10 Like on Twitter 1943266845642932334 14 Twitter 1943266845642932334
GHABrussels avatar; GHA EU @GHABrussels ·
4 Jul 1941091456023666839

📢We're hiring! @GHABrussels is looking for an EU Advocacy & Policy Officer (maternity cover) to join our Brussels team.

If you're passionate about global health & EU advocacy, apply by July 27th!
🔗Apply here :  https://www.ghadvocates.eu/hiring-gha-is-looking-for-an-eu-advocacy-and-policy-officer/

#GlobalHealth #EUAffairs #Advocacy…

Image for the Tweet beginning: 📢We're hiring!  @GHABrussels is Twitter feed image.
Reply on Twitter 1941091456023666839 Retweet on Twitter 1941091456023666839 0 Like on Twitter 1941091456023666839 1 Twitter 1941091456023666839

Contact us

    © Action Santé Mondiale 2023 - Tous droits réservés - Mentions légales

    Close Menu
    • Home
    • Identity
    • Causes
      • Fight against pandemics
      • Women and Child’s Health
      • Funding and quality of aid
      • Research and Development
      • All our causes
    • Opinions
    • Resources
    • Contact
    • French