[Ip-health] Washington Monthly Magazine Profile of Patients' Advocacy for Affordable Medicines

[Fran Quigley]

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2018/their-own-medicin
e/ 

 

Includes shout-outs to our patient advocate allies, especially at
T1International, Patients for Affordable Drugs, Treatment Action Campaign,
and UACT.

SNIP<"There is always an important role for the expert, the policy
researcher, for those gathering evidence," says Diarmaid McDonald of the
Just Treatment campaign in the U.K. "But there will be very little change if
you don't have direct patient advocacy to decisionmakers."

There are signs of hope for this kind of patient advocacy again taking
center stage.> SNIP

 

Fran Quigley

PFAM: People of Faith for Access to Medicines, www.pfamrx.org
<http://www.pfamrx.org/> , (317) 750-4891

Also: Clinical Professor, Health
<http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/faculty-staff/profile.cfm?Id=440> & Human Rights
Clinic, Indiana University McKinney School of Law