sábado, 30 de octubre de 2010

Call to Action

Do you know where your drugs come from?
As a result of globalization, every day we use products from around the world; flowers from Colombia, Mexican tortillas, coffee from Costa Rica, Chilean and Argentine wines, Peruvian asparagus and medicines from India.
Most of us every day of the year take two or three pills that are produced in India which allows us to regain our health and continued development of our life. In Peru, Bolivia,  Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Argentina, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and other countries in Latin America, most antiretroviral drugs we take come from the Asian country as they have very low cost and proven quality.
However, the European Union intends to put their hands on our medicines and to limit our access. How? Through a trade agreement that would limit the production of quality drugs at a low price in India.
We believe it is necessary to support the campaign initiated by Doctors Without Borders to require Europe to desist in their attempts to limit the production of quality generic medicines at low prices through strict intellectual property laws which seek to include in its trade agreements.
Colombia and Peru were able to make Europe desist in these claims, India can do it too.
This is one of the actions we will be motivating. We have prepared a letter to the embassies of India that supports our request. The more letters received, the stronger will be our request.
Here we extend some of the addresses of embassies in Latin America.
Just sign the letter and send it by e-mail, fax, or mail.
It is important to do it soon as 8th November 2010 negotiations between India and UE will recommence.

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