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Hi, I wanted to confirm whether an unbranded disease awareness website that does not speak about treatment would need to be a gated site? The website would be targeted to HCPs and we would have campaign emails and digital banners linking to the website. Would this website also be considered PAAB exempt because it doesn't mention treatment?

If the website is disease state only and there is no direct/indirect mention of treatment, it may qualify as exempt. The promotion of the website would also need to have no mention of treatment. Mentioning treatment in a linked tool would be linking advertising to non-advertising (the exempt piece) and render it all advertising and subject to review. Note that there should be no branding elements such as colours or images that would link it to advertising. If the site is targeted to HCPs but there is no gate, DTC regulations would apply as well as HCP regulations. We would suggest this piece be reviewed for use in both audiences.

One additional caution. A disease state piece or campaign which focuses on a pathway or therapeutic area for which no products currently exists or the sponsor has a product coming for, may be perceived as pre-NOC advertising. See Pre-NOC Corporate/Editorial Communications.

Hello, I've had a launch announcement PDF file approved for e-mail distribution by PAAB. If I want to send this exact same file via fax, do I need to get it approved again by PAAB? Thanks.

If the unaltered PDF is being delivered via fax, this does not require re-review but should be submitted as an FYI for assessment. See also Q&A 650.

Is the following service exempt from PAAB review, as we think it does not meet the the criteria for a promotional activity. A pharma company would use a vendor to include a link to a peer-reviewed, on-label, full publication for their approved product, on a website other than the journal in which that publication was published. The vendor has agreements with other health websites which are frequented by physicians and other HCPs. Some of these sites are also other medical journals. The link to a recommended article would be disseminated via a targeted approach - it would only be displayed to potentially interested physicians (eg/a certain specialty, only Canadian HCPs). the link is also clearly market as being driven by the vendor, and is labeled as being "recommended reading/other articles you may be interested in". The physician makes the decisions to click the link to be redirected to the other peer-reviewed article. The link could be time-limited, rather than an everlasting link. It could be limited to a certain number of clicks on the link or to a defined time period (ex/ 3 or 6 months). (see example https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.20.01366. Look at the grey vertical bar to the right "We Recommend")

Duration of the link, number of click, etc. would not be what renders this activity advertising or not. The nature of the link and the association that it creates could render it advertising. For example, paying to have a link to a study which favours the sponsors product in the context of a competitors study, could be considered advertising and may not be acceptable. Likewise, placing a recommended link to a study about the sponsors product in the context of a disease state or epidemiological study may also be considered advertising and would require the assessment of the appropriateness of the link. While this link could happen organically, when the sponsor influences this association, it may be considered advertising.

Hello, I work at an agency and one of our clients is considering a website for patients enrolled in their PSP. This website would be DIN gated at which point the patient can create an account using their email address. The patient would then receive a confirm profile email with a link to create a password. Once the account is confirmed, the patient accesses this site with the email address and password. All information within the site falls into the following categories: - navigational content - unbranded therapeutic area information previously approved by PAAB or ASC - branded patient-facing information previously approved by PAAB Our client is deciding if this is something worth pursuing and part of this decision depends on the regulatory requirements. Could you tell me if a website of this nature would require PAAB preclearance and, if so, which parts of the site would be subject to review. Thank you for your input.

When we link branded and unbranded content, all content is considered branded. Linkages include, but are not limited to, temporal, visual, direct or implied. By virtue of the fact that they are registering to the PSP as a patient on a product, all content provided through the patient support program is subject to the PAAB code and review.