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By the time today's debate on AIDS closes, thousands of people will have died, many of whom might have lived if the huge pharmaceutical companies had not blocked the anti-virus drug production and importation process, so as to prevent the monopoly from being broken and its profits from falling. 'Copies' of drugs may offer relief, witness the example of Brazil which, by producing them and dropping prices by 79%, has reduced the aids mortality rate by 50%.
The statistics are disturbing: in Africa, only one in a hundred Africans can meet the cost of drug treatment. In Zambia, one in three pregnant women suffers from AIDS. Every day 8 200 people die.
That is capitalism: savage and barbaric. It kills not only with weapons, but also by depriving people of basic human rights, such as access to medical care and treatment. Rights which remain dead letters, while in practice health and medication have become commodities so that multinationals can make a profit.
This is the policy being promoted by the EU and the governments of the Member States who defend the interests of the monopolies.
The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece are fighting solely for a free national health and welfare system and a nationalised pharmaceutical industry. Only thus will health become a real right for everyone."@en1
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