Drug companies are finding new loopholes to make money each day. In the US, Viagra is being tested on children. Read more via Bhekisisa_MG. FairPricingForum
By 15:00 on Thursday, more than ten police vans were idling at the entrance of Emperor’s Palace in Kempton Park, where the World Health Organisation is hosting the second Fair Pricing Forum this week.
In a nutshell, they want sick people to get the medicines they need, you know, without having to sell everything they own. Or worse, dying because they don’t have the cash.had planned to hand over a memorandum of demands to the WHO ahead of the forum. Luckily, South Africa’s civil society hosted a panel discussion with some of the forum’s top speakers. Here’s what we learnt:
2. Loopholes in South Africa’s patent laws means patients have to fork out up to R75 000 per month for blood cancer drugs. But it’s not just here, drug companies are finding gaps in health policies all over the world, and they’re not afraid to use them.
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