From the Guardian article regarding the lenacapavir trial presented at the #AIDS conference in Munich. ....In a policy that remains relatively rare for drug trials, becoming pregnant did not exclude women, and 193 became pregnant while on lenacapavir. There are so far no signs of drug-related problems.... and the research team is following up the mothers and babies. This should be the norm rather than the exception? https://lnkd.in/ew6623Q4
Concept Foundation (non-profit)
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A not-for-profit organization Established 1989 - with offices in Geneva and Bangkok Working under a collaborative agreement with the WHO Concept Foundation is working on saving women’s lives and future by helping to increase availability and access to high quality, low cost, generic sexual and reproductive health (SRH) medicines to women in Low – and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). Globally Concept Foundation is assisting partners with manufacturing, quality certification, registration and market introduction of pharmaceutical products. Programmes: Family Planning, Maternal Health and Safe Medical Abortion Women’s lives and futures, access to generic Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) medicines, combining high quality + low cost, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Low – and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), WHO Prequalification (PQ), Quality certification, registration and market introduction of pharmaceutical products.
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Beschäftigte von Concept Foundation (non-profit)
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Ellen Rosskam
Global Health Practitioner | Technical Specialist | Senior Strategist for Research and Global Public Health, Center for Social Epidemiology | Women…
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Nicolette Loonen
Impact | SDGs | Sustainable Governance | Kracht van Lokaal | CSRD | Regeneration | Commissaris | Maatschappelijke Raad
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Anne Ammerdorffer
Research Manager at Concept Foundation
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Katia Rostovcev
General Manager | T&B Pharma Consultoria - GMP
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Concept Foundation is pleased to share the publication of a systematic review on factors affecting the inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in #clinicalTrials. This mixed-methods systematic review is published in PLOS Medicine, in collaboration with the #Gender and Women’s Health Unit at University of Melbourne and Burnet Institute, Australia, and JAWAHARLAL NEHRU MEDICAL COLLEGE, India. 💡 We systematically explored eight databases, to generate evidence on the facilitators and barriers impacting pregnant and lactating women’s participation in trials. Our findings show that there is a wide range of factors that play a role - operating at various levels across regulation, statutes, #policies, funding, #research #ethics boards, #healthSystems, health workers, women, and their families. Today, pregnant women are systematically excluded from clinical trials, which translates into millions of women not fully benefitting from scientific advances - living with the uncertainty about potential adverse effects from drugs, and being deprived of the latest biomedical innovations and of optimal interventions that are tailored to the specific circumstances of pregnancy. To increase the number of meaningful clinical trials in pregnant women globally, we need a better understanding of the #knowledge of, and #attitudes and preferences towards, clinical trials. Our systematic review offers comprehensive #evidence synthesis, and recommended strategies to address barriers and optimise pregnant and lactating women’s participation in clinical trials - which can ultimately improve #womensHealth. You can access the review here: https://lnkd.in/e8M2PMyJ #maternalHealth #healthEquity #reproductiveHealth #genderBias #AIMproject
Factors influencing the participation of pregnant and lactating women in clinical trials: A mixed-methods systematic review
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Why is it important that sexual and #reproductiveHealth #medicines are #qualityAssured? What difference would it make, if we made sure that the medicines that women receive are all quality-assured? 💡 In a first-of-its-kind publication, Concept Foundation and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy show that the use of quality-assured uterotonic medicines do not only impact #womensHealth – but can also have significant #economic #impact, for #healthSystems, women and their families, and entire countries. 💡 Through a modelling study, we demonstrate the benefits of improving the quality of uterotonics to reduce #postpartumHaemorrhage (#PPH) and #maternalMortality. Concept Foundation and UNC developed a decision-tree model to examine the economic and health impact of substandard uterotonics, through case studies in three sub-Saharan African countries: #Ghana, #Nigeria, and #Senegal. The recently published paper outlines the results from the modelling exercise in Ghana – showing that by ensuring use of quality-assured uterotonics in the country, would result in millions of dollars in cost savings and improve maternal health outcomes for the government and families in the country. 💡 This article, published in PLOS Global Public Health, is the first to demonstrate the economic burden associated with poor-quality uterotonics. The findings indicate the economic benefits of safeguarding medicine quality in low-and middle-income countries (#LMICs), and the importance of doing so to achieve #UniversalHealthCoverage (#UHC) and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs). Improving access to quality-assured uterotonics without financial hardship requires multi-sectoral efforts to tackle health system challenges. At Concept Foundation, we support manufacturing, registration, procurement and use of #SRH medicines that are quality-assured. Read the full paper on our unique findings in Ghana, and stay tuned for our upcoming #research results from Nigeria and Senegal. https://lnkd.in/eR_b_tQp
Modeling the economic burden of postpartum hemorrhage due to substandard uterotonics in Ghana
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Concept Foundation’s latest board meeting took place in Geneva, Switzerland, and served as a great opportunity to discuss our future #strategy and explore opportunities that can support our continuous work to drive #RandD, support #manufacturing and registration of #qualityAssured SRH #medicines, and advocate for implementation in low- and middle- income countries (#LMICs). A heartfelt thank you goes out to our board members, whose invaluable input energized us to keep working towards a world where all women and girls can access sexual and #reproductiveHealth medicines when they need them - without having to worry about how to afford these products, or whether they are effective and safe. We would like to extend a special note of gratitude to Elizabeth Lule, who is sadly stepping down as Chair of the Board after many years of tireless dedication to supporting our organization with her profound expertise in and passion for #SRH issues. While we will miss Elizabeth, we are also very happy to welcome Pisake Lumbiganon as our new Chair of the Board, transitioning from having been Vice-Chair. As a Professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and immediate past president of The Asia & Oceania Federation of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (AOFOG), Pisake brings a wealth of relevant experience in SRHR to his new role as Chair. Pictured in the photos are the members of the Board: Elizabeth Lule | Pisake Lumbiganon | Jeff Spieler | Agnes Saint-Raymond | Silke Lindenberg, Dr. | Luis Bahamondes | Andrea Lucard | Nicolette Loonen as well as team members from our Geneva office: Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu | Lester CHINERY | Anne Ammerdorffer | Carolin Ekman | Alessandra Fleurent | Milena Micunovic | Sara Rushwan | Jennifer Scott
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📽 WEBINAR RECORDING NOW ONLINE! DIAGNOSIS IN THE DARK: The need for R&D of #diagnostics for #preEclampsia In our latest webinar, we discussed pre-eclampsia diagnostics and how they can improve #womensHealth - and the urgent need for accelerated investment in #research and development of diagnostics for what is still one of the leading causes of #maternalMortality. ➡ Learn more about the recently published report from Concept Foundation (non-profit), Policy Cures Research and Burnet Institute, on the pipeline analysis of #RandD of pre-eclampsia diagnostics. ➡ Joshua Vogel, Burnet Institute moderates a conversation between Cécile Ventola, PhD, Policy Cures Research; Koiwah Koi Larbi BSc, LL.B, LL.M, Action on Pre-Eclampsia (APEC), Ghana; Mushi Matjila, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town; and Alice Hurrell, King's College London, about novel technologies in the space of pre-eclampsia diagnostics. https://lnkd.in/gQWP5bbx
AIM Webinar 3: Diagnosis in the Dark - the need for R&D of diagnostics for pre-eclampsia
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This is a wonderful report by Policy Cures Research. It shows the massive impact of R&D investments in tackling neglected diseases, some of which, we should say are not neglected anymore! Between 2013 and 2023 123 new products have been approved for neglected diseases. My heart sinks when I think about #onlytwodrugsever for maternal health have been approved în the last 30 years. I have to correct myself, an additional two drugs have been approved by US FDA for use in postpartum depression since 2019. I can imagine that for 123 products approved there must have been more than 1000 that were properly researched and failed to get to the approval stage for some reason. Without a similar investment to accelerate innovations for women during pregnancy, lactation and any other time in their lives we will not have any good, safe solutions. We need #Partnerships, #Collaboration and #Genderequity in #SRHR to make progress in this field. Through our partnership with Policy Cures Research and Burnet Institute we just published our analysis of the pipelines and market failures in maternal health https://lnkd.in/eyAnqfJT We need similar partnerships to those in neglected diseases in #SRHR. Concept Foundation (non-profit)
📢 Investing in global health R&D pays off, yielding a staggering health and economic return to societies of $405 for every $1 invested 💰 Read our milestone report on the #impactofRandD and explore all underlying data here: bit.ly/3UT3G8d We find: 👩🔬 The neglected disease sector has punched above its weight for more than two decades, delivering an impactful portfolio of products along with a rich pipeline that promises to deliver many more life-changing innovations in the future. 👩🔬 Since 1999, 183 products have come to market to tackle neglected diseases. We now have the most robust neglected disease pipeline we have ever seen, with 752 active candidates. Half of the pipeline, though, is made up of innovations to treat just three diseases: malaria (20%) and TB and HIV (15% each). 👩🔬 Nearly a third of the pipeline products are in Phase II and III trials. We estimate that between now and 2040, 182 of these candidates will gain approval and launch as new products. But nearly half of these will be for either #malaria, #TB or #HIV, and a clear majority (69%) will be novel diagnostics. 👩🔬 With the introduction and continued scale-up of these innovations, we estimate that 40.7 million lives will ultimately be saved between 2000 and 2040. Overall, our analysis show that every dollar spent on neglected disease R&D and developing life-saving products returns $405 in wider societal and economic gain. To realise the full benefit from the past 20 years of developing the product pipeline, there needs to be sufficient ongoing investment in R&D to deliver the innovations that have not yet been completed, but which are projected to arrive over the coming years. We also need to strengthen our healthcare systems and display the political commitment to providing the kind of roll-out and scale-up assumed in our modelling of these coming innovations. We call on the global health community to: 1️⃣ Pursue collaborative mechanisms for investment and financing of global health R&D; 2️⃣ Focus on portfolio investment to decrease risks from the failure of a single product; 3️⃣ Optimise efficiency of the regulatory and scale-up processes to reduce time from proving efficacy to wide adoption; 4️⃣ Recognize the strategic value of investing in impact assessment; and 5️⃣ Strengthen collaboration between R&D stakeholders and those focused on market access.
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Pregnant women are systematically excluded from all phases of drug research and development. The logical - and unacceptable - consequence is a dearth of effective medicines for complications of pregnancy, even life-threatening conditions. Our Accelerating Innovation for Mothers (AIM) collaboration with Concept Foundation (non-profit) and Policy Cures Research is trying to change that. See our analysis of the systemic barriers and the solutions we need in our The Lancet Global Health paper out this week: https://lnkd.in/gp5KfhV5 Burnet Institute
The drug drought in maternal health: an ongoing predicament
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📢 DRUG DROUGHT IN MATERNAL HEALTH: ANALYSIS OF 20 YEARS OF #MEDICINES HIGHLIGHTS URGENT NEED FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE #PARTNERSHIPS TO ACCELERATE R&D For several serious #maternalHealth issues, it is unlikely that there will be any new, game changing drugs before the end of the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals (#SDGs) era in 2030. In a paper published in The Lancet Global Health, Concept Foundation (non-profit), Policy Cures Research and Burnet Institute outline a mapping of all medicines that have been used/investigated for use between 2000-2020, for 5 #pregnancy specific conditions. We expose a strikingly limited interest in #innovation and in medicines specifically developed for pregnant and lactating women. We also propose realistic solutions – which rely on collective action from #academia, the #pharmaceutical industry, #donors, #regulatory agencies, #governments and #civilSociety. 💡MATERNAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE IS NOT TRANSLATED INTO MEDICINES 🔸It is striking how many more medicines are under development for much rarer conditions than pregnancy-related ones. 🔸Only 50% of all candidate medicines identified were in active development. Only 64 candidates were in late-stage #RandD. 💡PREGNANT WOMEN WORLDWIDE ARE TREATED WITH MEDICINES NOT DESIGNED FOR PREGNANCY 🔸Only 1/3 of the candidate medicines (and only 1/4 of the active ones) were developed specifically for any of the five maternal health conditions accounting for most of the direct maternal deaths/severe maternal morbidities. 2/3 candidates were initially developed for another condition. 🔸There is not a single medicine developed specifically for #preEclampsia / #eclampsia. 💡FACTORS HAMPERING R&D: 🔸Lack of industry incentives due to relatively high #costs + #risks and low #profit, especially in terms of introducing products in #LMICs. 🔸#Gender bias in #research, systematically excluding pregnant/lactating women from #clinicalTrials. ➡ PROPOSED SOLUTIONS: 🔹LONG-TERM COMMITMENT FROM PHARMA AND DONORS, strategically and financially investing over 10-15 yrs to support innovations from academia and #startUps. 🔹INSURANCE DE-RISKING: governments and donors guaranteeing a sales #price and purchase quantity for LMICs, similarly to what has been done for #vaccines. Pooling money into “catastrophe risk funds” to cover cost of R&D related #insurance and liability. 🔹THE ROLE OF REGULATORY AUTHORITIES: Researchers proactively proposing and showing interest in new solutions, supporting #regulatory agencies to implement these. 🔹#ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN RESEARCH incl governments ownership and engagement with #CSOs to inform and create #demand. 👉 Read more about our research & access the paper: https://bit.ly/3VFCNX6 The study conducted under the Accelerating Innovation for Mothers (#AIMproject) covers 5 conditions: #preterm labour/birth; #preElampsia/eclampsia; intrauterine growth restriction; #postpartumHaemorrhage #PPH; intrapartum fetal distress.
Drug drought in maternal health: analysis of 20 years of medicines highlights urgent need for public-private partnerships to accelerate R&D - Concept Foundation
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#Preeclampsia is a leading cause of #MaternalMortality and morbidity, and our capabilities to diagnose it remain limited. Join us for a webinar on Wed 5 June as partners discuss novel technologies and explore the impact of diagnostics for pre-eclampsia on #WomensHealth and #HealthSystems. Register: https://bit.ly/3K6No6E cc Concept Foundation (non-profit), Policy Cures Research, Burnet Institute #MaternalHealth #NewbornHealth
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♀️♀️♀️ Full house when Concept Foundation (non-profit) and GENDRO.ORG held two sessions at the Geneva Health Forum conference, asking our distinguished panel and curious audience if a #feminist global #health #policy is the way to go to spur #innovation in #womensHealth. A rich conversation with an impressive line-up of panelists, and a dedicated audience that energized, challenged and inspired us! Dr Lindsay Keir and Anne Ammerdorffer gave us an overview of recent work that Concept Foundation and Policy Cures Research have undertaken in the space of women's health, including to map the R&D landscape of #medicines addressing women's health issues, and to develop #TPPs for #pregnancy conditions. Under the excellent moderation of Shirin Heidari and Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu, our panelists brought a wealth of knowledge, experience and perspectives on gender and health. Thank you, Andrea Lucard; Montasser Kamal; Iren Bagdasarian; Sabrina Badir; Edith Roset Bahmanyar; Temitayo Erogbogbo; Martina Penazzato for your interesting viewpoints. Among many other angles, we discussed how to tackle #gender biases in #research; accountability; the roles of different stakeholders in advancing #RandD in women’s health; the dynamics between #science, #advocacy and #politics; and the terminology used to advocate for health research with a gender lens. #AIMproject #healthForAll #GHF2024 #globalHealth #SDGs #pharmaceutical
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