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The return of AIDS, malaria and even tuberculosis is symptomatic of the poverty caused in certain nations by global free trade and uncontrolled ultraliberalism.
These three pandemics have reminded us that the planet is like another Space Shuttle Columbia. When an atypical form of pneumonia breaks out in Vietnam in 2003, death is the result, whether in Hong Kong or in France. This shows that health is a global public good.
The problem has been under discussion within the WHO for months. Washington stubbornly refuses to allow poor countries free access to generic medicines. The United States are vetoing intellectual property rights and patents on molecules that save lives. In 2001, however, when they were under threat from anthrax, they considered that the patent on cyclosporine, owned by the Bayer laboratory, should be waived.
In other words, the partnership between Europe and the developing countries is clearly a positive but insufficient initiative. The world is suffering from a lack of social imagination. We need to realise that large-scale problems, such as pandemics, immigration or scarcity of drinking water, are global in nature, whereas the solutions can be found at country level. The challenge is to examine the solutions to these problems on a global level in order to prevent them from destroying those who are too short-sighted to think beyond their own country."@en1
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