Re: [india-drug] Access to Medicines Workshop - India Social Forum (2)

["nirmal gurbani" <nirmalgurbani@rediffmail.com>]

Access to Medicines Workshop - India Social Forum (2)
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In reference to the posting my Gopa for the workshop on Access to Medicine

This call is too late. I wish, I could have the information earler.

Yours sincerely
Dr Nirmal Gurbani
Tel. (O) +91 141 2575705
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"nirmal gurbani" <nirmalgurbani@rediffmail.com>  


On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 Gopa Kumar wrote :
>Dear all,
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>DO YOU THINK YOUR HEALTH SHOULD DEPEND ON YOUR WEALTH?
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>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
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>invite you to a workshop on
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>"ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES"
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>S6, INDIA SOCIAL FORUM, 11th NOVEMBER, 9.00 AM - 12.00
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>Access to safe and affordable medication and treatment in India has, over the past two years, come under increasing threat.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>JOIN US
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>TO BUILD PEOPLES' OPPOSITION TO MONOPOLIES ON MEDICINES AND TO ENSURE ACCESS TO TREATMENT
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>"ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE MEDICINES"
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>DATE: SATURDAY, 11th NOVEMBER 2006
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>TIME: 9.00 AM - 12.00 PM
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>VENUE:    S6, INDIA SOCIAL FORUM,
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>JAWAHARLAL NEHRU STADIUM
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>"Gopa Kumar" <gopa.kumar@centad.org>
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>Also mention the city/stste of the venue
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