PHA-Exchange> Thailand stands up to Abbott

[Claudio]

From: Third World Network 
www.twnside.org.sg
 

 

Thailand stands up to Abbott

 

When Thailand went ahead with a compulsory license on Kaletra, an AIDS drug, despite threats from Abbott the maker of the drug, the latter hit back by withdrawing the registration of a new heat stable form of Kaletra and six other drugs. The likely outcome will be more deaths of innocent patients.

 

A full article describing the situation is available from TWN at address above.

 

"Standing Up To Abbott's Decision to Withhold Registration and Marketing of

Life-Saving Medicines - A New Variant of Pharmaceutical Apartheid"

 

By Brook K. Baker, Health GAP, 13 March 2007

 

 Abbott is now doing what drug companies have long threatened to do when developing countries use lawful flexibilities to access more affordable generic medicines - it is threatening to take its marbles and go home. Unfortunately, however, Abbott is not playing marbles, it is playing a deadly game of Pharmaceutical Apartheid, where drug companies withhold access to affordable life-saving medicines in a perverse effort to preserve intellectual property rights at all costs.....


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