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Let's eat the rich and share their wealth! :dev+ang:
Don't fall for that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtydog
They are strategic military installations cunningly disguised as golf courses.
They even force the 700 generals to play golf everyday just to fool us into thinking that they are golf courses.
I've yet to see a Thai who could strategise his/her way out of a wet paper bag. Brain dead are this lot.
DRUG-PRICING IMPASSE
Bt1-bn damage suit looms
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Minister returns from the US saying little achieved but sees softer stance
The state-run Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) may seek Bt1 billion in damages from a United States lobby group for allegedly defaming it and a well-known HIV/Aids drug.
The GPO has already sought criminal-defamation action against USA for Innovation. The group lobbies for US pharmaceutical companies.
The alleged defamation is included in newspaper advertisements the group published earlier this month in Thailand in The Nation and Bangkok Post, and the Post's Thai-language sister title Post Today.
The full-page advertisement alleged Thailand's move to invoke compulsory licensing to get around drug patents would hurt "the poor and sick of Thailand".
It said most Thais with HIV/Aids would "not have access to the world's best medicines" but would be treated with locally made drugs, such as the Aids drug GPO-Vir which it said a Mahidol University study had found to have a resistance rate of 39.6 per cent to 58 per cent.
GPO-Vir is manufactured by the GPO, and the state agency claims a resistance rate of 15 per cent for the drug.
Its board chairman Dr Wichai Chokewiwat said the Bt1-billion damages claim was accordance with the Civil Code and represented the cost of an alleged civil wrong.
Wichai said the GPO generated annual revenues of Bt5 billion from selling GPO-Vir both domestically and overseas, including developing countries like Nigeria and Burma.
"The ad shook patients' confidence in our drug and damaged the reputation of the GPO," he asserted.
However, Wichai did not specify when the GPO would file the civil action, saying it was waiting for police to identify the names of the people at USA for Innovation to cite as respondents.
Wichai will ask the US Embassy for these. Even though these people may live in the US, Wichai believes they can be tried in the Kingdom because the alleged defamation was committed here.
Meanwhile, the public health minister said Thailand would consider buying drugs covered by patents if they could be purchased for no more than 5 per cent above prices for generic versions.
Mongkol na Songkhla returned to Thailand late Thursday from the US. He said although the country had invoked compulsory licensing on three life-saving treatments, negotiations with their manufacturers were still possible.
"If patent holders cut their prices to no more than 5 per cent above generic alternatives declared under compulsory licensing, we will consider buying the originals," he said.
The three drugs are efavirenz made by Merck, lopinavir/ritonavir made by Abbott Laboratories and a heart-disease medicine made by Sanofi-Aventis.
The ministry's drug-price negotiation team has held three rounds of talks with the companies, but none has agreed to lower prices to the level desired by the ministry.
Mongkol has spend the past two weeks in the US negotiating with drug-makers and explaining the government's decision to invoke compulsory licensing.
Though saying he "achieved nothing" from the trip, Mongkol said there were positive signs and Abbott had officially submitted a new price for lopinavir/ritonavir, down more than half its original US$2,200 (Bt76,000) per patient per year to $1,000.
However, yearly treatment with a generic version costs just $695 per person.
Duangkamol Sajirawattanakul
The Nation
gosh, and have any of those been built in the last few years?
so naughty
gosh, and have any of those been maintained in the last few years?Quote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy
The cost of maintenance must be real cheap...since it rains everyday in Thailand.
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Originally Posted by dirtydog
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OVERVIEW: Time to accept USA for Innovation for what it was - June 9, 2007
The USA for Innovation site went silent on May 9, 2007. The companion site ThaiMyths.com ran from May 7 to May 18 and then went silent as well.
Based on its short history, USA for Innovation is
- an organization with no history before April 2007 (despite a huge directory of press releases, none of these were released to the net on the alleged dates they were created)
- an organization whose web attacks have no precedent in lobbying--except for the lobbying group Edelman which is well-known for creating fake lobbying efforts and planting articles and opinion pieces in the press (more info here).
- an organization that could afford an expensive hired gun like Kenneth Adelman
- an organization that seems satisfied to cease activity on May 18. Thaksin ended his association with Edelman on May 7.
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