London, UK
Home of the Olympics 2012
PAX’12 will explore the Global health divide in the city that resembles in 2012 the creme de la creme of the healty world - olympic sportsmen

Reasons

Global burden of disease: Low- to middle-income countries account for 85% of the world’s population and 92% of the global burden of disease. They lack proper health systems and infrastructure, biotechnological development, and financial resources to benefit from and contribute to the advances in health and medical research.

Health research: According to the Global Forum for Health Research, 90% of all health research expenditure is targeted at problems that affect only 10% of the world’s population.

Drug development: In many low-income countries, communicable diseases make up the greatest component of the total disease burden, and the management of communicable diseases signifies an important challenge for health systems. Yet, between 1975 and 1999, the pharmaceutical market produced only 15 (1%) new drugs for tropical diseases and tuberculosis, illnesses which account for 12% of the global burden of disease. The area of cardiovascular diseases, which account for 11% of the global burden of disease, received 179 (13%) new drugs in the past 25 years.

London Coordinator
Dezmond O'leary
dez@pax08.com