In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the industry is using the crisis to lock in its problematic, profit-maximising model. Pushing for public money with no-strings-attached, and stronger monopoly patent rules, the industry’s wish-list could restrict access to COVID-19 drugs and vaccines, prolonging the pandemic in the name of profit. Control over prices and access must not be left in private hands: health is a human right.
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A brilliant article. Le Monde diplomatique at its best. The social reality Halimi describes could be the UK. Also the forces protecting neo-liberalism: Graduates, the middle class, those in big cities, the EU ‘Journalists must […]
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