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Article: Don't blame the drug companies for the problems of the world
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2001
- Author:
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EVERYONE LOVES to hate a drug company: hatred of wrongdoing being
the nearest most of us can come these days to virtue. And the guilt
of the drug companies is assumed, like a truth universally
acknowledged. But is the truth actually true?
The case against the drug companies is by now familiar, and
appears to have been strengthened by their offer, under pressure from
an Indian manufacturer of generic drugs, to cut yet further their
prices to African countries of anti-viral drugs for Aids. If they can
afford to cut their prices now, why did they not do so to begin with?
Does not their conduct prove that they are to human suffering what
vultures are to carcasses and carrion?
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