Despite its failure to get a mandate in Seattle, the World Trade Organization has been progressing with free trade talks in Geneva for more than
USA Today by Ida Hellander and Don McCanne
Upping patients' share of premiums and medical bills won't slow skyrocketing health-care costs. But it will penalize the sick and keep millions away from life-saving
A Conservative Convert To Socialized Medicine by David Burgess
http://www.iht.com/articles/12871.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0309-03.htm
PARIS - What's the old joke? A conservative is a liberal who has just been mugged? Well, I am a conservative who has just been
Drug access shouldn't be reliant on industry goodwill, but be ensured by law
Government is concerned that poor people's access to quality medicines is dependent on the goodwill of individual industry players. With the Medicines and Related Substances
Government supports activists' role in court
The government on Monday expressed support for the Treatment Action Campaign becoming a party to the court case brought by pharmaceutical companies challenging legislation making
Court hearing has global implications
AIDS Drug Test Case: World's Pharma Unions Back South Africa
ICEM Update, No. 10/2001, 5 March 2001
Countries must have the right to buy AIDS medication at
Angry protests as companies start drug battle
The battle over South Africa's medicine legislation came to a head on two fronts in Pretoria on Monday - in the city streets and in
Thousands march against drugs multinationals
Thousands of protesters marched from Pretoria's Church Square around 11am on Monday to the city's High Court where they picketed to show support for the
Drug access shouldn’t be reliant on industry goodwill, but be ensured by law
Government is concerned that poor people's access to quality medicines is dependent on the goodwill of individual industry players. With the Medicines and Related Substances
Government supports activists’ role in court
The government on Monday expressed support for the Treatment Action Campaign becoming a party to the court case brought by pharmaceutical companies challenging legislation making
Millions pin hope on drugs hearing by Anso Thom, Independent Online
The hopes of millions of South Africans and fellow Africans will be pinned on the outcome of the court case between 41 pharmaceutical companies and
Privatised health care: U.S. system not the way to go
By Miguel Aguayo
The Toronto Star
Talk of privatizing the health-care system in Canada began to emerge shortly before my immigration from the United States.
Its proponents spoke