--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > >> On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:47 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > >> > > >>> Good news. Now the question is going to be, will the > > >>> company that developed this drug make it available > > >>> at a reasonable cost to the millions in Africa and > > >>> other places around the world who are dying of AIDS? > => >> > > >> I haven't heard a follow-up to this, but an Indian Industrial > > >> Pharmacist IIRC learned the process for the current > > >> antiretrovirus "cocktail" and was going to give it to African > > >> governments gratis. > > >> They would have been able to produce doses dirt cheap--dollars a > > >> month--and the Africans refused. > > > > > > There is certainly more 'meat' to this story. *Why* > > > would they refuse? For example, were they threatened > > > with a cessation of or reduction of US aid if they > > > went for it? > > > > > > That has certainly happened in the past, with the > > > US threatening to cancel aid to a country if it > > > allowed free abortions or dispensing of birth > > > control products. > > > > IIRC it had to do with conspiracy theories the African officials had > > about why we *really* wanted to give these drugs to them. For > > example one African president did not believe that HIV caused AIDS ! > > Sad. A truly sad commentary on how the 'word' of the > United States of America has come to not only mean > nothing in the view of the rest of the planet, but > mean less than nothing.
Y'all seem to have missed that it was allegedly an *Indian industrial pharmacist* who was going to give the process for the drug cocktail (not the drugs themselves) to African nations, not the U.S. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
