HOW do you turn a growing desire among western investors to put their funds behind ethical companies into improved access to medication for poor people?
The Access to Medicine Foundation, based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has developed a set of criteria to assess how ethically pharmaceutical companies perform towards developing countries. It will make its ranking available online from 16 June and hopes investors will use it to decide which companies to invest in, while encouraging big pharma to make medicines available to poor people.
“Investors see ethical behaviour by companies as a sign of good long-term management,” says Wim Leereveld, who chairs the foundation. He…
