Catherine Olivier

TL;DR: This paper conducted a narrative review of the literature to identify benefits and challenges associated with NGO-R partnerships, as well as approaches that promote successful partnerships, and found that collaborations characterised by trust, transparency, respect, solidarity, and mutuality contribute to the development of successful and sustainable NGO−R partnerships.

TL;DR: This chapter focuses on drug promotion practices in the developing world that have important repercussions on physician prescribing habits, antimicrobial use and development of resistance and proposes that ethical considerations should be included as an integral part of the framework in the evaluation of appropriateness ofdrug promotion practices.

TL;DR: This analysis shows that pharmacogenomic technologies do have the potential to redirect drug development and distribution so as to improve the health of vulnerable populations, and strategies should be developed to better direct their implementation towards meeting the needs and responding to the realities of populations of the developing world.

TL;DR: The analysis of ethical questions associated with crisis response can advance discussions about how relief efforts can best be designed and implemented to minimise ethical distress and improve assistance to local populations.