E-drug: Over 40 Swiss organizations launch access campaign
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On 25 April, the Declaration de Berne, the Aids-Hilfe Schweiz and
more than 40 Swiss organizations* have launched a campaign
"Healthcare: a right for all, in developing countries too". The
organizations are demanding from the Swiss government and Swiss
pharmaceutical companies (in particular Roche) to correct their
policies regarding access to healthcare and to medicines in
developing countries. They denounce the inadequacy of policies that
are exclusively focalized on the protection of short term economic
interests of the Swiss pharmaceutical industry to the detriment of
people's health in the developing countries. HIV/AIDS provides a
tragic examples. Swiss government is demanded to commit itself to
the realization of the right to health in developing countries, in
particular access to medicines. As an important producer of
medicines and diagnostics tests, Roche is also targeted because of
its lobbying policy, its general pricing and patent policy (in particular
on
its essential antiretrovirals and HIV/AIDS diagnostics tests).
For more informations:
Julien Reinhard, Declaration de Berne. Tel: 021 620 03 06
Documents:
-A study on Roche (in English) can be downloaded from the website
of the Declaration de Berne
(http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/Roche_study_April03.pdf) : Julien
Reinhard.
Starting to Play by the Rules? Roche and access to medicines and
diagnostics in developing countries. Declaration de Berne, avril 2003).
Other documents in French can be accessed from the website of the
Declaration de Berne http://www.evb.cheindex.cfm?folder_id=329
* Organizations supporting the campaign:
Declaration de Berne, Aids-Hilfe Bern, Fachstelle Aids-Hilfe Zug,
Fachstelle fur Aidsfragen Schwyz, Groupe sida Gen�ve, Groupe Sida
Jura, Groupe Sida Neuchatel, Point fixe, Sid'action, Zurcher
Aids-Hilfe, Action de Car�me, Association Kallpa Geneve,
Association suisse des amis du Monde diplomatique, ASK -
Arbeitsgruppe Schweiz-Kolumbien, Attac Suisse, Centre Ecologique
Albert Schweitzer, Cetim, CODAP, Commission Africaine des
promoteurs de la sante Communaut� de travail des oeuvres suisses
d'entraide, COTMEC, DM-Echange et mission, EcoSolidar, Federation
Genevoise de Cooperation, Federation Romande des
Consommateurs, Federation Vaudoise de Cooperation,
GFS-Kommission St. Gallen/Appenzell, Incomindios, Innovation
Reseaux Developpement, Jardins de Cocagne Solidarit� Nord-Sud,
Jec Suisse, Les Verts parti Ecologiste genevois, Liechtensteinische
Gesellschaft f�r Umweltschutz, medico international schweiz (CSS
Zurich), Mission-21, Mission Bethleem Immensee, Parti Socialiste
genevois, PLANeS, Primavera, Restaure la Terre, SIT,
Schweizerischer Friedensrat, SolidarMed, Swissaid, Terre des
Hommes Suisse, Theologische Bewegung f�r Solidarit�t und
Befreiung, Verein Z�rcher Sozialprojekte
Declaration de Berne
Julien Reinhard
C.P. 212, CH-1000 Lausanne 9, Switzerland
Tel direct: +41-21-620 03 06. Fax: +41-21-620 03 00.
Courriel: reinhard@ladb.ch. Web: www.ladb.ch
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