Do you think your health should depend on your wealth?

[Guest guest]

DO YOU THINK YOUR HEALTH SHOULD DEPEND ON YOUR WEALTH?

Centre for Trade and Development (Centad), All India Drug Action

Network (AIDAN), Indian Network for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS

(INP+), ActionAid India, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines -

MSF and the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit invite you to a

workshop on

" ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES "

S6, INDIA SOCIAL FORUM, 11th NOVEMBER, 9.00 AM – 12.00

Access to safe and affordable medication and treatment in India has,

over the past two years, come under increasing threat.

Multinational drug companies can now get 20 year patents i.e.

monopolies on medicines and treatment in India – monopolies that

they have exploited the world over to charge exorbitant prices and

hold peoples' health to ransom! Now they are pressuring our

government to introduce even more monopolies.

They are also dragging patients groups to court - Swiss Pharma

Company Novartis has taken cancer patients to the Chennai high court

for successfully challenging their monopoly on a cancer drug that

Novartis wants to sell us for Rs. 1,20,000 per patient per month as

opposed to the Rs. 8000 per patient per month that Indian generic

companies charge.

And in all this, our government is not only bowing to their pressure

to introduce more monopolies, it is even going back on its promise

to control the prices of essential drugs.

Public interest groups are meeting these challenges head on by

opposing the patents of these companies, by opposing moves by the

government to accept their demands and by fighting them in court.

JOIN US

TO BUILD PEOPLES' OPPOSITION TO MONOPOLIES ON MEDICINES AND TO

ENSURE ACCESS TO TREATMENT

" ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES "

DATE: SATURDAY, 11th NOVEMBER 2006

TIME: 9.00 AM – 12.00 PM

VENUE: S6, INDIA SOCIAL FORUM,

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU STADIUM

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