E-drug: Access to drugs for PLWHA. What about TB drugs and care? (cont)
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I fully agree with Dr.van Gorkom - actually this is exactly the same
comments I voiced on E-Drug some time ago after all the publicity
surrounding the WTA conference in Seattle. I was very glad to see it
in print in the last issue of INRUD news (vol.10, no.1, p.7-8). The
antiretroviral treatment (it is NOT a therapy!!) issue is completely
overshadowing other more urgent problems, which can and should
be appropriately treated like tbc and malaria. MSF is probably
stressing the drug argument so much because they seem powerless
to do anything about the public health problems around HIV infection
- and that is definitely not poverty in the first place as the ill informed
SA president tries to make us believe...
I will be the last to defend the interests of the pharmaceutical
industry, but they now seem to be the wrong target for attacks.
Good luck.
Dr.L.Offerhaus
Koedijklaan 1a, NL-1406KW Bussum, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-35-6923288. Fax: +31-35-6923290
E-mail: LO@EURONET.NL CompuServe: 71530,15
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