By: Heartland Highways Episode 912

Heartland Highways Episode 912 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:44:11 +0000

[...] IP, Trade And Public Health Leaders Turn A Page In History Together IP, Trade And Public Health Leaders Turn A Page In History Together Speakers included WTO Director General Pascal Lamy, World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, … Read more on Intellectual Property Watch (blog) [...]

By: Riaz K. Tayob

Riaz K. Tayob — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:26:28 +0000

WTO’s Lamy and WHO’s Chan stood up during a swine flu “pandemic” and stated that pork consumption was not dangerous (benefiting pork producers, mainly in Mexico and US while knowing the virus was plastic) despite knowing that the Sanitary & Phytosanitary Agreement (SPS) allows countries the flexibility to choose their own level of risk. But rhetoric aside they both have achieved rather little considering that they are the guardians of legally protected rights of compulsory licensing (and health) under the TRIPs agreement to compulsorily license needed medicines. Nor has Lamy taken action against those forces in his organisation that attempted to change the Aug 30 decision by including a footnote that would have made the current agreement (sans footnote) much much more difficult to use. So as the Global Fund monies drop, we see that eradicating HIV/AIDS becomes a long term profitable proposition for pharmaceutical companies! More HIV = More $$$! Perhaps WHO needs to take the evidence that treatment helps reduce transmission more seriously, but then again, they know it already…

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By: Heartland Highways Episode 912

By: Riaz K. Tayob