Saturday, April 10, 2004

Shock Horror! Bush reneges on Doha

Just look at what this lovable rogue is up to now. I'm not even surprised anymore. Simply disgusted. The Bush administration have been accused of trying to escape the 2001 Doha agreement which promised £8 billion to be spent on cheap AIDS drugs for developing countries.
Apparently he finds there is a quality issue with the cheaper generic AIDS combination pills that have been developed.

Sharonann Lynch of the charity Health Gap said the US government is trying to ensure that the money from the US AIDS relief plan goes to brandname manufacturers. "These objections make no sense. The generic drugs are bioequivalent compounds, and the WHO pre-qualification process uses staff from Canadian and European regulatory bodies that the US recognises."

The cheapest generic combination pills cost about £77 per person per year (under a price agreement negotiated with manufacturers by former US president Clinton.) The same combination from brandname companies costs about £310 per person per year.

In his state of the union address in January 2003, President Bush announced a $15bn programme that was styled the ‘presidential emergency plan for AIDS relief (PEPFAR). Did he fool anyone outside America? Is it any wonder that America is the focus of the rest of the world's hatred?

Bush tells the American public "They hate our freedoms".
We do. We hate the mercenary freedom that America uses to depredate the world, so that the fat cats in America get fatter, and the rest of the world can go hang.

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