When Big Pharma blocks essential HIV/AIDS medication to the third - TopicsExpress



          

When Big Pharma blocks essential HIV/AIDS medication to the third world, it is the poor who suffer. Fire In The Blood, put together by Al Jazeera, is a gut-wrenching programme on how the top tier of pharmaceutical companies are making it really tough for people to access medicines at an affordable cost. In a larger point, one of the hotly contested issues in the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (#TPP) is the Intellectual Property chapter, which will do exactly this - Raise prices of medicines through extremely long and unnecessary patent terms, of up to 72 years!
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:19:39 +0000

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