<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Susana Barria</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbarria@phmovement.org">sbarria@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue 12 Feb, 2019, 19:57 Alexandre G. <<a href="mailto:alexandre_gajardo@hotmail.com" target="_blank">alexandre_gajardo@hotmail.com</a> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Public Eye, a Swiss NGO, formally asked the Swiss government to issue a compulsory license on Perjeta (pertuzumab), a Roche's breast cancer drug.
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For this purpose, Public Eye prepared a model of request, that you can find <a href="https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Medikamente/PublicEye_CL-Request-Perjeta_CH_2019.pdf" title="https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Medikamente/PublicEye_CL-Request-Perjeta_CH_2019.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
here</a> (in english).<br>
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Press release in french <a href="https://www.publiceye.ch/fr/coin-medias/communiques-de-presse/detail/demande-licence-obligatoire-prete-a-lemploi" title="https://www.publiceye.ch/fr/coin-medias/communiques-de-presse/detail/demande-licence-obligatoire-prete-a-lemploi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
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<div><span style="font-family:calibri,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">The objectives of this action are to put pressure on the Swiss government, in order to address the
lack of transparency in drug pricing and cost of R&D, but also to question the swiss position regarding the use of TRIPs flexibilities. Indeed, in the past, Switzerland, alonside with the EU and the US, put a lot of pressure on Middle Income Countries, such
as Thailand and Colombia, to prevent them from using TRIPs flexibilities, especially compulsory licenses. </span></div>
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