The European Coalition on Medicine is a collective made up of associations supporting patients’ and consumers’ rights (including Act Up Paris), and of independent medical publications. It was created in order to fight a proposal that would change European policy on advertising and information related to medicine.
It would ease restrictions on advertising medication, thus allowing the pharmaceutical industry to promote their drugs and increase their profits. The pharmaceutical industry (...)
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the pharmaceutical industry’s attempt to conquer Europe
6 juillet 2002 -
Bush announces 10 billion dollars to maintain the multi-national pharmaceutical companies’ monopoly
31 janvier 2003this announcement is a clear attempt to put pressure on developing countries which do not have the capacity to produce drugs, in order to force them to purchase high-priced brand-name products and limit the production and distribution of generic products at all costs
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Knowledge is a weapon
The Treatment and Research Commission is the oldest commission of Act Up-Paris. It now has fifteen members who meet twice a month to take stock of the current situation, follow up issue dossiers and hold in-depth discussions of the positions taken by Act Up-Paris in the treatment area.