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Did you ever wonder why countries like Thailand and Brazil are taking steps to bypass pharmaceutical patent laws and make generic versions of AIDS drugs available to their people? It's because Big Pharma is using patents to extort money from poor AIDS patients around the world. Countries like Thailand have decided they're no longer going to tolerate the predatory pricing of U.S. and European drug companies armed with squads of intellectual property lawyers. Instead, they're just declaring national health emergencies and either buying or making their own generic equivalents of brand-name AIDS drugs.
Drug companies routinely abuse patent laws to deny medicines to the poorest people around the world unless they pay up. And they have to pay big! AIDS drugs are expensive even for Americans. For the average Thailand worker, who earns only a few dollars a day, the drugs are simply impossible to afford. But Big Pharma seems fine with the idea of, "If you don't pay up, you die," and they use patents to effectively restrict potentially lifesaving drugs from AIDS patients, all while claiming they're actually helping people. Sure they're helping SOME people: The ones who can afford to make drug companies even wealthier. But the rest just get abandoned.
Pharmaceuticals are a for-profit industryA human life has no value to a drug company unless there is a revenue stream attached to it. Drug companies are in business to make money, not to save lives, and they have proven they'll use every tactic at their disposal to accomplish their goals, including using aggressive legal tactics, monopolistic market practices, corruption, bribery and the committing of crimes against humanity.
It is my belief that the nations of the world should end all patents on medicines, seeds and genes, returning that so-called "intellectual property" to the people instead of keeping it in the hands of greedy corporations. Drug companies use patent laws to monopolize chemicals that should belong in the public domain. Many of the chemicals used to make drugs were originally stolen from nature (biopiracy), then modified and patented by drug companies. So why should a corporation own a chemical that was originally found in nature in the first place? Shouldn't these medicines belong to the people?
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