Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-08-Speech-4-114"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Major and neglected diseases in developing countries (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050908.16.4-114"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-08-Speech-4-1152
lpv:speaker	lp:Carl Schlyter2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Miljöpartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I wish to thank Mr Bowis for his very constructive work, above all because he goes beyond well-known diseases such as AIDS, malaria and TB and deals with sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. These are forgotten diseases here in the West, but they make their presence all too sharply felt in the South, with millions of victims every year. The tsunami brought people’s suffering to light, and aid flooded in. If we can give these diseases a higher profile and mobilise the same resources, it will be possible to reduce the suffering of millions of people. Yesterday, we voted on the need for paediatric medicine, and Parliament unfortunately accorded additional patent extensions worth many billions of euros to the pharmaceutical companies as compensation, so we need in all fairness to be able to find the mere EUR 3 billion needed for devising treatments for these diseases that affect children and adults in the developing world. TB and AIDS exist here in the West, so treatments do too. These diseases mainly affect adults, however, and we do not have treatments suited to children. Public funds need to be invested in this area, for the children of the developing world have no way of financing their medical needs themselves. The money may, for example, come from a 1% tax on the profits of pharmaceutical companies that has to be paid when they have found cures. There are many other solutions. It is our shared responsibility to ensure that resources for combating these diseases are created immediately. How developed a civilisation is may be judged on the basis of how it deals with its most vulnerable members. The world’s most vulnerable group consists precisely of these poor and sick children. If we cannot even help them, humanitarianism has gone out of the window, and we should return to the caves."@en1

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