Confidential documents related to the World Health Organization Expert Working Group on innovative financing for research and development surfaced today, revealing the group’s thinking as well as pharmaceutical industry thinking about the WHO process. The documents immediately raised concern about possible undue access to the process by industry; the WHO told Intellectual Property Watch the industry group was not supposed to have the documents.

The documents appear to have come from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), and include draft reports on innovative financing mechanisms from the working group as well as an analysis by the IFPMA on the reports’ contents. They were released on Wikileaks, a website that anonymously publishes sensitive documents.

The 5 PDF files are available at the link below and make for great reading, you can take my word for it, so please, read them.

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Big_Pharma_inside_the_WHO__confid...

WHO_Expert_Working_Group_draft_reports,_8_Dec_2009/