E-DRUG: Last call: Stop secret treaty threatening generics (ACTA) (2)
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Hi,
Should ACTA try to "undermine access to low-cost generic medicines", as has been reported, it will surely suffocate the health systems of third world. Should this happen, then third world should relinquish membershipships from all international organisations which support this move. If the marginalised countries continue to succumb to such pressures, the rich will strangulate the poor economies. There is a limit to everything. Lust for economic power should not result in converting human suffering into agony due to nonaffordibility of medicnes. What sort of world order are we marching to through such antihuman designs?
Dr Vijay Thawani
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