Thread: HIV network opposes licensing of Hepatitis B pill costing 30,000 baht per pill

A network of people with HIV urged the Thai authorities not to hand a multinational pharmaceutical company the rights to monopolise a drug to combat Hepatitis B as patients might have to pay millions of baht for the treatment.

At the Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) of the Ministry of Commerce, Bangkok, representatives of AIDs Access Foundation (AAF) and HIV positive people on Tuesday, 30 August 2016, handed a petition to the DIP urging it not to issue license for Sofosbuvir, a medicine for Hepatitis B treatment, to Gilead Sciences Company, an American biopharmaceutical cooperation, Thai Plus.Net reported.

The company requested the Thai authorities for the license of the medicine back in 2008.

Along with the petition, the group handed a 1000-page document to the DIP, saying that Article 31 of the Intellectual Property Act allows them to oppose the process to license the drug.

They pointed out that Sofosbuvir costs about 30,000 baht per a pill and that on average each patient in the US with Hepatitis B spend about 2.5 million baht on average for treatment with the medicine.

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God forbid Thailand is stupid enough to sign onto the TPP so called trade agreement or just about everything in the pharmacy will be priced out of the reach of many Thais.

That's right.

Yes Bob. It's a disgrace and a damning indictment on political slavery to corporate greed.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Yes Bob. It's a disgrace and a damning indictment on political slavery to corporate greed.

Why do you call it slavery?

They pay good money for their politicians. Slaves have no choice.

The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in India
The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in India - Bloomberg

I helped an American friend of mine (with Hep C) organise some.
No way Thailand should grant a patent- except perhaps to the Indian generic.

The U.S. Pays a Lot More for Top Drugs Than Other Countries





Suckers.

I'm not sure which is worse.... Big Pharma or Military Industrial.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I'm not sure which is worse.... Big Pharma or Military Industrial.

Big Government is worst; in America anyway our Constitution never intended for the Federal Government to have the power over the states that is does. It's their evil that has allowed the other two to take the power they have.

^^ Those prices are pure corruption; if the American FDA was forced to allow any generic drug legally sold in other major responsible countries to be imported into the US those prices would immediately drop.

Is this the product that young most hated CEO prick inflated price xxxxfold and later on faced tax evasion sentence ?