Health/Law/Human Rights. Thinking globally, meeting CanCon requirements. Disproportionately but not exclusively access to medicines/global health/humanitarian response/public health/infectious disease.
Adam R Houston
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👀"Nonprofit buys experimental cancer drug to maintain patient access - Blood Cancer United is buying remaining supplies of Luvelta and will manage a compassionate-use program" www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/b...
Important questions: Will there be drugs... & who will get access?
"Scientists Race to Test Treatments as Ebola Outbreak Widens—Trials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak"
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/h...
"Ebola outbreak spreads to crowded displacement camp in Congo" www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Some highlights (imho) of the top 46 drugs accessed via Canada's Special Access Program💊 in 2025:
Clofazimine at #3 (536 requests)
Iloprost Trometamol #12 (210)
Albendazole #19 (146)
Bedaquiline #24 (127)
Flucytosine #28 (120)
Pretomanid #43 (59)
👀Bonus SAP "drug": Medicinal Leeches #33 (94)
However, contrary to popular belief in some quarters, the Special Access Program isn't actually used all that frequently to obtain substances like "synthetic cathinones, including bath salts" 🙄.
The U.N. refugee agency confirmed the first Ebola-related deaths in a displacement camp in eastern Congo, as aid workers warned of a high risk the disease could spread rapidly in overcrowded sites.
Some interesting stats about Canada's #SpecialAccessProgram for medicines not approved by Health Canada just released:
www.ourcommons.ca/written-ques...
#SAP 💊
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