Affordable Medicine

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky is threatening trade sanctions against developing nations which attept to legally provide AIDS drugs to their HIV positive citizens. AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT AIDS has reached epidemic levels in many developing nations. 90% of the 33 million HIV+ people worldwide live in Latin America, Asia or Africa. [...]

What you can to to lower it In 1996, San Francisco’s ACT UP Golden Gatepublished Your Money or Your Life, a survey of AIDS drug prices which concluded that “the cost of the therapies is now a number one killer of people with AIDS.” It found that a year’s worth of the most basic, minimal [...]

TAXOL AND THE RIPOFF OF CANCER PATIENTS WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT? Priced at over $2000 per injection, the anti-cancer drug Taxol, sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb under the brand name Paclitaxel, retails at more than 20 times its production cost. The company claims high drug prices are necessary to make up for high research [...]

Medicines are priced higher in the U.S.A. than in any other nation. This page is meant to build grassroots support for measures which can be taken to lower American medcine prices. Pharmaceutical companies claim that high prices are necessary to support the high research and development costs of the drugs. However, American tax dollars – [...]