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Generic Hypocrisy
- Steve B Norris (25 July 2004)
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Re: Generic Hypocrisy
- Katherine Hovey (27 July 2004)
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HIV-It could bite back !
- Sanjay D Furtado, Jairaj Furtado (27 July 2004)
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Steve B Norris, Facilities Manager Hampshire PO6
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When the US took South Africa to court to stop their government buying cheaper generic aids drugs from Asia instead of the more expensive American supplied drugs they fortunatly lost. Isn't it interesting that when the US thought that it was under attack from the anthrax letters a few years ago and realised that it didn't have enough stockpiled supplies of antidote it desperately sought a generic supply from any where in the world that would supply it!! S B Norris Competing interests: None declared |
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Katherine Hovey, legal 94102
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The current financial reports of the three largest U.S. drug companies overwhelmingly show that the drug companies spend(t) more on advertising than they did on developmnet. I would gather that the real interest in keeping U.S. drug prices high is to pay for their advertising budgets -- right under shareholder profits. Competing interests: None declared |
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Sanjay D Furtado, SHO Surgery Torbay Hospital, Torquay,TQ2 7AA, Jairaj Furtado
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The issue of rising drug prices and consequently of medical care is of major concern to the electorate of developed nations. Hence, the breast beating goes on at the present time in the US it being an election year. What the US electorate in general does not know and probably does not concern itself with is the efects US policy would have in people living in other countries. Though the rights of the pharmaceutical industry should be protected , a mechanism should evolve wherein diseases of transnational importance are dealt with taking into effect the low spending power of developing nations. In this interconnected world, a rising HIV or any other health problem in a developing nation could find its way back to its own home soil. Isn't it time that policy makers within the US understand that the investment in a developing nations HIV problem today could ensure a smaller transmission risk to itself in future. Competing interests: None declared |
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