The Prodi government is behind with the payments due. It’s not paying for medications for AIDS, TBC and malaria. Humanitarian help with UN support. Apart from anything it’s like the previous government. Promises from the Italians.
Without pharmaceuticals you die. Whoever can’t pay, dies. The poor nations die. The WTO approves. The pharmaceutical companies, headed up by Glaxo, rake in the money. Rich governments assist.
I don’t understand. Research costs. The pharmaceutical companies have to fund the research. They gain as well (how much?). But to observe the death from AIDS of 30 million Africans is a crime against humanity. Full stop. There’s no discussion.
What the hell is the use of the United Nations and the governments if they don’t know how to face up to humanitarian disasters? They do nothing to oppose the companies with the monopoly over the production of pharmaceuticals.
That hold the ownership of the patents for 25 years. A generation. The life of a part of humanity is worth less than a patent. They forbid the self-production of pharmaceuticals, as has happened in South Africa for AIDS.
It’s better to have a good budget and loads of corpses. The death budget.
Piero Ricca interviewed the Euro parliamentarian Vittorio Agnoletto.