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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Is This Peruvian Woman With HIV Speaking Out Against an International Trade Agreement?
Advocates Say the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Could Prevent Access to Life-Saving Medications for MillionsTheBody.com | Barbara Jungwirth | September 28, 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed trade agreement among the United States and 11 other nations around the Pacific Ocean: Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico and Brunei Darussalam. Negotiations of this agreement have been conducted in secret, but some of the proposed text has been leaked, including the chapter on intellectual property rights and patent protections.
Rachel, a woman living with HIV in Peru, states in the video below: "Because of competition and generic medications, the price of my treatment has dropped from US$10,000 to US$150 per year." The video says that the TPP patent protection provision would mean "more monopolies, less competition, fewer generic medications, that is: higher prices." One of the participants in the video calls such price increases "a luxury' she cannot afford.
The current proposal for the intellectual property chapter prohibits signatory countries from approving generic or biosimilar medications for eight years after a brand-name drug has been approved. Advocates say such a delay would deny people living with cancer, HIV and other serious medical conditions access to affordable life-saving medications. This, in turn, could affect the lives -- indeed, the very survival -- of millions of people in the developing world, according to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF). Judit Rius Sanjuan, MSF's U.S. manager explains:
"Pharmaceutical companies already enjoy some of the highest profit margins and longest monopoly protections of any industry, and granting them extended and additional market exclusivity is just another way to delay price-lowering competition and keep medicines out of reach of MSF medical operations and millions of people."
A multinational campaign against the provision is collecting signatures on a petition to be delivered to the next (and possibly final) TPP meeting to be held September 30-October 2 in Atlanta, GA. The petition is available online. The campaign has also assembled statements from people living in countries that would be affected by this chapter of the agreement...snip
http://www.thebody.com/content/76476/oppose-the-patent-protection-provision-in-the-tpp-.html
#TPPkills - Peruvian Patients Speak Out
Published on Sep 23, 2015
Nuestra salud NO es negociable with English subtitles
Sep 30: Activists at Atlanta TPP Trade Negotiations
Published on Sep 30, 2015
Trade Activists
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Why Is This Peruvian Woman With HIV Speaking Out Against an International Trade Agreement? (Original Post)
nationalize the fed
Oct 2015
OP
msongs
(67,394 posts)1. sorry lady, the TPPis for obama and his corporate friends' benefit nt
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. Because for many people, medicine will be too expensive, and the TPP is a death sentence.
But, hey! She should feel honored to be affected by an Obama legacy! She doesn't have enough money to BENEFIT from the TPP, but poor people can be ground down for free! Ain't that something!
The TPP shillers and enablers are all Martin Shkreli. All of them. The ones who shill for it, the ones who voted for fast track, the ones who will votes yes on it. No votes or support for them. Whenever I see ANY of them when I am in a voting booth, I will write in the name of an actual person.