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Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits Before Need
Source: The Nation
Multinational pharmaceutical companies focus their research and development
on high profile, profit-making drugs like Viagra instead of developing
cures for life threatening diseases in poorer countries. Viagra earned more
than one billion dollars its first year, for instance. Though
representatives of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America claim that some funds are directed toward eliminating tropical
diseases, neither they nor individual firms are willing to provide
statistics.
Research into Third World tropical diseases is not being
extensively considered or produced. A recent and effective medicine for
African sleeping sickness was pulled from production, while older remedies
are no longer available because they are not needed in the US. AIDS
continues to receive the most attention in the Third World, mainly because
the disease also remains a threat to the First World.
Since the release of this story, Doctors Without Borders won the
Nobel Prize and announced an international campaign to increase access to
key drugs.
For more information contact author: Ken Silverstein Tel: (202)
462-3130, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#3 Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer
Source: International Journal of Health Services, Volume 29, #3,
1999
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is growing increasingly wealthy, thanks
to donations from the public and funding from surgeons, drug companies, and
corporations that profit from cancer cures. More than half the funds raised
by the ACS go for overhead, salaries, and fringe benefits for its
executives and other employees, while most direct community services are
handled by unpaid volunteers. The value of cash reserves and real estate
totals over $1 billion, yet only 16 percent of funds go into direct
services for cancer victims.
Conflicts of interest affect ACS's approach to cancer prevention.
With a philosophy that emphasizes faulty lifestyles rather than
environmental hazards, the ACS has refused to provide scientific testimony
needed for the regulation of occupational and environmental carcinogens.
The Board of Trustees includes corporate executives from pharmaceutical
industries with a vested interest in the manufacture of both environmental
carcinogens and anti-cancer drugs.
For More information contact author: Samuel Epstein, School of
Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago Medical Center, 2121 W.
Taylor Chicago, IL 60612-7260, Tel: (312)996-2297, Fax: (312)996-1374,
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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