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What role will nano-enabled medicine to cure disease and poverty in the South global?
According to a press release from the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto (March 31, 2005), "Some day soon, in a remote community in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of blood from a patient in a piece of plastic about the size of a dime. Within minutes you will have the full diagnosis, including common test battery, plus the analysis of infectious diseases such as malaria or HIV / AIDS, hormonal imbalances and even something like cancer. This amazing piece of plastic called lab on a chip and is one of the revolutionary products and processes currently emerging from nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of thousands of millions of the world's most vulnerable ".111
In September 2000, the United Nations adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG, or MDG by its acronym in English) and 18 goals - a "map" to eradicate hunger and poverty and to ensure the health and environmental sustainability, especially of the poorest in the world by 2015. United Nations identifies three MDGs-eight (of 18) goals relate to health care (see Box 3). The "task force on science, technology and innovation" [UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation], part of the United Nations Millennium Project, sees nanotechnology as an important tool to achieve the ODM.112 Many others - scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, market analysts and experts in rural development between them, agree that the technologies nanoscale offer the potential to improve global health - including the world desarrollo.113 Proponents believe that nanotechnology could play an important role in remedying the health of the global South, not only live in treating patients with novel vaccines and therapies from the nanoscopic level, but indirectly, easing the conditions that lead to diseases such as unsafe drinking water. Current research in nanoscale source filters and nano-particles that remove water contaminants are frequently cited examples to invoke the potential contributions of nanotechnology to health in the developing world. The ETC Group acknowledges that nanotechnology research and development related to water are potentially significant for the developing world. Access to clean water could be a much greater contribution to global health than any particular medical intervention.
Nanotechnology research related to water and its political and economic context require further study and examine the ETC Group (in a separate report) research and development in nanotechnology related to water. In this report, however, we confine our analysis to the Nanomedicine drugs and devices for detection, diagnosis and treatment of diseases at molecular. In September 2000, the United Nations adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG, or MDG by its acronym in English) and 18 goals - a "map" to eradicate hunger and poverty and to ensure the health and environmental sustainability, especially of the poorest in the world by 2015. United Nations identifies three MDGs-eight (of 18) goals relate to health care (see Box 3). The "task force on science, technology and innovation" [UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation], part of the United Nations Millennium Project, sees nanotechnology as an important tool to achieve the ODM.112 Many others - scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, market analysts and experts in rural development between them, agree that the technologies nanoscale offer the potential to improve global health - including the world desarrollo.113 Proponents believe that nanotechnology could play an important role in remedying the health of the global South, not only live in treating patients with novel vaccines and therapies from the nanoscopic level, but indirectly, easing the conditions that lead to diseases such as unsafe drinking water. Current research in nanoscale source filters and nano-particles that remove water contaminants are frequently cited examples to invoke the potential contributions of nanotechnology to health in the developing world. The ETC Group acknowledges that nanotechnology research and development related to water are potentially significant for the developing world. Access to clean water could be a much greater contribution to global health than any particular medical intervention.
believe that the global health crisis does not stem from a lack of scientific innovation and medical technology: the root of the problem is poverty and inequality. New medical technologies are irrelevant to poor people if they are not accessible or affordable. Scientific innovation is meaningless if marginalized people have no access to treatment or existing technologies. Doctors Without Borders says that pharmaceutical companies pay more attention to obtain patents in developing countries that supply drugs
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As said Rights Commission Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health, World Health Organization in April 2006: "The current government policies and strategies of companies, including its financing mechanisms and incentives, in developed and developing countries alike, no have generated sufficient biomedical innovation as it is relevant to most developing countries. New treatments, and even existing ones, are still beyond the reach of those who necesitan.115 For example, one third of the world's population lack regular access to essential medicines. In parts of Africa and Asia this figure rises more than half the esenciales.114
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