“Many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases. ... Malaria, tuberculosis, acute lower-respiratory infections ... They die because it doesn’t pay to keep them alive. ... Only 1 percent of all new medicines brought to market by multinational pharmaceutical companies ...were designed specifically to treat tropical diseases plaguing the Third World.”
[Ken Silverstein, Millions for Viagra, Pennies for Diseases of the Poor, The Nation]
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