Health Protection Quotes



This principle justified the Government in allowing a local Indonesian company to manufacture anti-AIDS drugs without paying licensing rates demanded by the drug companies that held the patents. The principle is that patent rights and the desire to profit should not supersede the rights of people to continue to live because they cannot afford the drugs to keep them alive. The local manufacturers provide the drugs to the government at cost of manufacture which is a tiny proportion of the price the patent owner charges.


Most prisons of that age not only incarcerated the prisoners but also beat and tortured them and kept them in unsanitary and unsafe facilities. Pedro I was an incredibly modern man regarding prison reform and was years ahead of his time even by European standards.