Archive for June, 2010
Initiative to reduce high prescription drug prices through market competition Legislation requires product licensing of essential prescription drugs, disclosure of manufacturing costs Washington, DC – In an effort to make prescription medicine more accessible and affordable for people across the country, U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today introduced an initiative that would use market competition [...]
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. [...]
Every year, between 2 and 3 million people die of Tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, the world has possessed the medical capability to cure virtually every single case of Tuberculosis on earth since 1952. We just don’t. Since the great majority of people afflicted with TB live in developing nations, news of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dispute between aids activists and al gore proves grassroots action works! The international AIDS crisis has hit especially hard in South Africa, where 3.2 million people are estimated to be HIV-positive. At the prices charged by American pharmaceutical companies, one year’s worth of AIDS medicine can cost roughly twice the average yearly income. Faced with [...]
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 – [...]