Guest guest Posted February 26, 2003 Report Share Posted February 26, 2003 http://www.health4us.org/aids_battle/index.html Aids demasks Pharmaindustry: Profits are put before Human Lives With over four million people already infected with HIV, South Africa has the highest number of people in the world who are living with HIV/AIDS . Very few can afford the treatment that seems to extend and improve the lives of people in richer countries. High prices are effectively denying medicines to poor patients, condemning them to a premature death. While publicly claiming that the are fighting the spread of AIDS the pharmaceutical companies are preventing the distribution of cheap, essential medications for the Third World. By blocking the production of cheap generic AIDS medications in the developing world the pharmaceutical companies unmask themselves and their unscrupulous " Business with Disease. " In general, millions of poor people in the Third World die every year from infectious diseases because the medicines that might cure them are too expensive. In the pharmaceutical market, profits are put before human lives, with deadly consequences. Life-saving medicines are nothing more than commercial products for these companies. Health4Us is publishing a list of pharmaceutical companies that fail to provide desperately needed help to the Third World at an affordable price. All named companies actively take part in the African court case to make cheap generic aids medications unavailable in Africa. The involved companies represent the whole " who`s who " of the pharmaceutical industry. Again, like the Vitaminscandal, or the Codex Alimentarius Scandal the whole pharmaceutical industry walks in goo-steps in order to maximize their profits against all human needs. The 39 pharmaceutical companies in the South African court case: webplaced: March 16, 2001 A complete list of the 39 pharmaceutical companies suing the South African government to prevent the distribution of essential medications under South African law: The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association of South Africa Alcon Laboratories (S.A.) (Proprietary) Limited Bayer (Proprietary) Limited Bristol-Myers Squibb (Proprietary) Limited Byk Madaus (Proprietary) Limited Eli Lilly (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited Glaxo Wellcome (South Africa) (Proprietary) Limited Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited Janssen-Cilag Pharmaceutica (Proprietary) Limited Knoll Pharmaceuticals South Africa (Proprietary) Limited Lundbeck South Africa (Proprietary) Limited Merck (Proprietary) Limited MSD (Proprietary) Limited Novartis South Africa (Proprietary) Limited Novo Nordisk (Proprietary) Limited Pharmacia & Upjohn (Proprietary) Limited Rhone-Poulenc Rorer South Africa (Proprietary) Limited Roche Products (Proprietary) Limited Schering (Proprietary) Limited Schering-Plough (Proprietary) Limited S.A. Scientific Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited Universal Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited Wyeth (Proprietary) Limited Xixia Pharmaceuticals (Proprietary) Limited Zeneca South Africa (Proprietary) Limited Bayer AG Boehringer-Ingelheim International GmbH Boehringer-Ingelheim KG Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Byk Gulden Lomberg Chemische Fabrik GmbH Dr. Karl Thomae GmbH Eli Lilly and Company F. Hoffman-La Roche AG Merck KGaA Merck & Co., Inc. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer S.A. SmithKline Beecham Sign the international petition from Medicines Without Frontiers to urge the pharmaceutical companies to drop the South African Court Case and support the right to access to essential medicines. Sign the petition at: http://www.msf.org/ While the Industrialized World is flooded with high-profile profit making-drugs like Viagra, Popecia etc. the number one killers cardiovascular disease and cancer are increasing every year. Pharmaceutical substances created for this market are oriented not to cure these diseases, but calming their effects. With not targeting the true reasons for these number one killers the phamaceutical companies keep this deadly market artificially alive. In the mean time the side effects of these pharmaceutical semi-cures have risen to the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world. 106 000 Patients in the US die from side effects of synthetic pharmaceutical substances every year! The Aids Controversy The ongoing controversy about Aids has triggerd many different opinions in the scientific world. Even the causes of Aids are questioned by a number of scientist. Most of these controversial opinions are ignored by the mass media. We support full disclosure of all scientific thought on this ongoing debate. Health4Us is not responsible for the content of external internetlinks. This website contains more than 750 web pages with over 500 articles about the ongoing HIV=Aids debate: www.virusmyth.org News And Background Information About Price Gouging for AIDS Drugs News And Background Information: The HIV/AIDS Crisis: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Booktips: " The constant Gardener " , A novel from John Le Carré In the " Author´s Note " to his newest Novel John le Carre states: " As my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard. " He adds later: " ...particularly in the North American continent, where highly qualified medical researchers have dared to disagree with their pharmaceutical paymasters and suffered vilification and persecution for their pains. The issue is not, whether their inconvenient findings were correct. It is about individual conscience in conflict with corporate greed. It is about the elementary right of doctors to express unbought medical opinions, and their duty to acquaint patients with the risks they believe to be inherent in the treatments they prescribe. " With his new book and these statements John le Caree marks a turning point in the public debate about the unscrupulous " Business with Disease " by the pharmaceutical companies. The moral outrage of John le Carrés book (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever. Read a short summary of " The Constant Gardener " on Amazon.com Gettingwell- / Vitamins, Herbs, Aminos, etc. To , e-mail to: Gettingwell- Or, go to our group site: Gettingwell Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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