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Article: U.S. drug imperialism.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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Operating at the behest of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), for a decade and a half the U.S. government has waged a ruthless crusade to force Third World countries to adopt straitjacketing intellectual property rules at the expense of protecting public health.
In May, Clinton administration officials went into diplomatic overdrive to subvert an effort at the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish the common-sense principle that people should matter more than profits when it comes to access to essential drugs.
WHO's governing body, the World Health Assembly, had before it a proposal to urge countries to "ensure that ...