Tell & to Stop Turning its Back on AIDS Patients

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The greedy bastards need to get with the program ! I have always believed Tibotec (owned by and ) is a greedy company that always comes in late into agreements of any kind that may help those with no means.

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Tell & to Stop Turning Its Back on AIDS Patients

J & J is undermining access to key AIDS drugs

 

Dear Supporter:

On Monday, December 19, pharmaceutical giant & is expected to announce whether it intends to license its patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism

designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world.

 

THE TIME TO ACT IS

NOW

 

Tell J & J to join the patent pool

Over the past two years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been urging & to take this critical step.

& has so far refused to join discussions on licensing these patents to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Pool has been set up to increase access to more affordable versions of HIV drugs,

including fixed-dose combinations that include multiple medicines in one pill, and to develop much-needed pediatric HIV drugs.

The Pool would license patents on HIV drugs to other manufacturers and the resulting competition would dramatically reduce prices, making them much more affordable in the developing world. However, since the

Pool is voluntary, it will only work if patent holders like & choose to participate.

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