GLOBAL ACTION ALERT:
US Trade policy robs poor people of their health. sign our petition and get the US government to back off!
ON PATENTS AND AIDS DRUGS
Your Money or Your Life - US Trade Policy Robs Poor People Of Their Health!
After three years of campaigning, the countries of the world are finally ready to relax the monopolistic policies that keep AIDS drugs out of the hands of millions.
Only one nation is still insisting that patents and profits are more valuable than the lives of the poor.
Days before a WTO meeting where US trade officials will again ransom millions of lives for drug company profits, US Trade Representative Bob Zoellick will speak at the Philadelphia summit of the Corporate Council on Africa.
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Unless activists force the US to give in, Big Pharma and Zoellick will derail a meaningful declaration on access to life saving drugs and the WTO patent rules before the Qatar meeting.
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DEMANDS
2. Whenever patent protection on a drug is blocking access, there must be easy, straightforward mechanisms for overriding patent protection.
3. Countries must have the right to expedite compulsory licensing of medications without fear of retaliation from the US or any other government.
4. Countries must have the leeway to grant compulsory licensing to manufacturers in other countries (compulsory licensing for export).
5. The existing public health provisions in the WTO "TRIPS Agreement" must guide the reading of the entire Agreement.
RESOURCES
Monday
September 17
11: 00 am
12th and Arch streets
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia
FREE TRANSPORTATION FROM NYC AVAILABLE. CALL FOR INFO.
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For more information and updates on the demonstration:
call (215) 731-1844
email asia@critpath.org
call (212) 674-9598
e-mail salynch@globaltreatmentaccess.org
WE DEMAND:
1. Poor countries must have the option of exempting crucial drugs from the patent system all together.
www.globaltreatmentaccess.org
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www.un.org/News/ossg/aids.htm
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