Actually, India is manufacturing generic copies of the drugs sold in the US.
Can't say as I agree but, when your desperate and people need the medication
and the price the US companies are asking for is like Deri said obscene.
You do what you gotta do to survive.

Beth t the ot

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From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List

Subject: Re: civil war, was re. earthquake


you definately have some good points. i understand
that india is researcing the old village witchdoctor
(for lack of knowing what they are called in india)
and testing as many of the herbs to record and test.
keep what works. doing this before the last of these
people are gone. the report i read said that a big
drug company was helping in that. i'd hope that the
indian government would not allow this informatin be
repressed.

--- "Elizabeth H. Thiers" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It's amazing how the US was fighting helping out the
> AIDS crisis in Africa
> until the Africans started looking to India for
> cheaper pharmaceuticals.  I
> know the line about needing to recoup their costs
> but, Pfizer is pretty
> blatent about throughing their political clout
> around (and not just for AIDS
> cocktails).  Much of your medication money is spent
> on buying off
> polititians (more than the AMA), and sales staff.
>
> Beth T. the OT