Leaders
of the world's richest countries have agreed to provide billions of
dollars to help fight AIDS in Africa at the G8 summit but yesterday
campaigners said that under present trade rules much of that cash would
go to multinational pharmaceutical companies.
To the disappointment of pressure groups monitoring the summit, the
leaders failed to make progress on new trade rules to allow poor
countries to buy cheap, generic versions of new medicines, including the
drugs that can arrest AIDS.
France, as the summit host, had been pushing for an agreement in
principle that existing rules, which forbid Third World countries from
buying cheap versions of the drugs from other developing countries,
should be relaxed. President Jacques Chirac's spokes-woman, Catherine
Colonna, said progress was made on the issue. She explained that there
was an "agreement to agree" at the next round of trade talks in Cancun
in Mexico in the autumn.
The United States, in particular, objects to a dilution of the
international law on copyright, which would allow Third World countries,
unable to make their own generic drugs, to buy them cheaply from
developing nations such as Brazil.
President George Bush announced before the Evian summit began that
the US would give $15bn (£9.2bn) over five years to help to fight AIDS
in the world's poorest countries, especially in Africa. European Union
countries agreed on Sunday to try to match the pledge.
Speaking from Evian yesterday, Nathan Ford, the medical director of
Médécins sans Frontières in the UK, said the new money was welcome but a
change in copyright law would be even more useful. It would help to make
cheap drugs available to Third World countries to fight not only AIDS
but a host of other diseases.
Under present rules, he said, a poor country might have to spend
$1,500 (£920) a year to treat one HIV-infected person with brand name
antiretroviral drugs. Generic medicines could reduce the cost to £185 a
year per person. In other words, Mr. Ford explained, without a change in
the trade rules, much of the money offered by America and Europe would
simply come back to the large American and European pharmaceutical
corporations.
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AIDS
AIDS
- created by the military? Deliberate depopulation of
third world nations?
AIDS:
"The Manufactured Virus" (Lots of information)
Eliminate the Useless
Eaters!
U.S. History
of Human Experimentation
HIV not the cause of AIDS?
Africa
Genetic
Engineering
AIDS
(startling facts)
The
AIDS Conspiracy
Chemtrails: Death in the Air!
(Don't laugh, there's substantial evidence that the government has
been spraying viruses and God only knows what else on American
citizens from the air.)
The Secret Origin of AIDS
Is
the AIDS Virus Manmade?
AIDS
Created as BIO-Warfare
AIDS and Population Control
AIDS
Three Myths of Overpopulation
THE VACCINE MAFIA OR
THE VACCINE CIA?
Comments from webservant of
Jesus-is-Savior.com...
Do you see what is going on in the world? AIDS was created by the U.S.
military in a joint effort with scientists. There were no AIDS cases
before the 1980's. Now, AIDS is a global epidemic. Even worse,
the Pharmaceutical industry...what I refer to as "Pharmageddon"...is one of
the biggest scams on the planet. Every year hundreds of new drugs come
onto the market possessing dangerous side-effects. 100,000 people die
EVERY year in America alone because of drugs!
Satan's crowd is
supplying both the AIDS virus and the alleged remedy (and they're making
hundreds-of-billions of dollars doing it). From everything I have read, the
popular AIDS drug...AZT...actually
kills it's patients rather than help them as advertised. Please search
through the various articles and links. Do your homework. Keep
an open mind. The facts cannot be denied. AIDS is manmade!
The U.S. government has a
history of committing evil (the Federal Reserve being one of their greatest
evils against the American people). It should not be surprising that
our own government would create a monster such as AIDS. Thanks to the
U.S., Bikini Island in the Pacific is still so radioactive decades later
that no one can live there. Tens-of-thousands of Iraqis (and U.S.
troops) are presently suffering from the nightmarish effects of Depleted
Uranium. Why should AIDS be so hard to grasp? Do your homework,
the truth is not that difficult to find if you truly want to find it.
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