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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus introduced:
The Medicare Extension of Drugs to Seniors (MEDS) Plan

It is a genuine Medicare prescription drug proposal.

Features:

*Ê All Medicare beneficiaries are

By Michael Rachlis, Robert G. Evans, Patrick Lewis, & Morris L. Barer
Tommy Douglas Research Institute

"The implementation of Medicare thirty years ago was a major fork