Re: Stockholders share not Healthcare: U.S. taken to task over AIDS drug policy
From: Robert (Robert_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/14/04
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:28:52 -0700
"tcomeau" <tunderbar@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> HIV has never been isolated and thus the HIV/AIDS connection has never
> met Koch's Postulates.
>
> TC
I answered that previously moron but I hope you continue to mention it in
your posts because I want people to see what an idiot you are. No one would
even consider taking their dog to you for medcial advice much less
themselves.
>
> "Robert" <Robert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > The answer is using condoms and preventing the spread of HIV. Takes
drugs
> > does not do anything to transmission and only makes it worse. People
don't
> > want to be tested because of the stigma associated with the diagnoses as
a
> > result more people spread it and are thrown out of their own home with
that
> > diagnosis. If you think the statins are dangerous then try the HIV drugs
and
> > their side effects. As with statins HIV drugs need to be monitored with
> > blood tests which are too costly for third world countries. Unless those
> > problems are addressed to simply put it on the door step of the drug
> > companies is stupid.
> >
> >
> > "Zee" <zwalanga@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:e5f4a9c2.0407132125.6a698f40@posting.google.com...
> > > Amazing isn't it, people dying from illnesses that could be beaten if
> > > STOCKHOLDERS SHARE would just take a back seat to HEALTHCARE. In the
> > > meantime, BILLIONS are spent developing lifestyle drugs, like statins
> > > and viagra.
> > >
> > >
> >
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040712/AIDS12/TPHealth/
> > >
> > > "As a result, U.S.-funded AIDS programs in poor
> > > countries are able to buy only those drugs
> > > approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
> > > Administration."
> > >
> > > U.S. taken to task over AIDS drug policy
> > >
> > > Insistence on buying only FDA-approved medicine
> > > draws fire at annual meeting
> > >
> > > By STEPHANIE NOLEN
> > > Monday, July 12, 2004 - Page A3
> > >
> > > BANGKOK -- The 15th International AIDS Conference
> > > opened with a mood of tension in the Thai capital
> > > yesterday, with the United States standing
> > > increasingly isolated in its insistence on the
> > > use of brand-name drugs for the treatment of
> > > people with AIDS.
> > >
> > > Activists and leaders of the United Nations AIDS
> > > treatment efforts were critical of the U.S.
> > > program, saying it is spending two to three times
> > > more than necessary to supply patients in Asia
> > > and Africa with brand-name anti-retroviral drugs
> > > from large drug companies.
> > >
> > > Randall Tobias, the U.S. government's global AIDS
> > > co-ordinator, said Washington's program is open
> > > to the use of generic drugs. "Our policy is to
> > > buy the least expensive drugs we can find
> > > anywhere in the world -- without regard to
> > > whether they are brand-name or generic," as long
> > > as those drugs are safe, he told reporters.
> > >
> > > But Mr. Tobias, a former head of the
> > > pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly and Co., also
> > > insisted that there should be no "double
> > > standard" between the drugs used in poor
> > > countries and the West. As a result, U.S.-funded
> > > AIDS programs in poor countries are able to buy
> > > only those drugs approved by the U.S. Food and
> > > Drug Administration.
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