# \[e-drug\] Over 40 Swiss organizations launch access campaign

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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](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](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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