Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-13-Speech-2-324"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Health issues and poverty reduction2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040113.14.2-324"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-13-Speech-2-3252
lpv:speaker	lp:Armonia Bordes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, we shall be voting in favour of this report because it describes the disaster being caused by diseases linked to poverty. For anyone reading this report with the least humanity and reason, the findings alone are a true indictment of our economic and social system, which allows millions of human beings to die of diseases that can be healed, particularly TB and malaria. The rest of the text is merely an admission of impotence. That is not the fault of the rapporteur, but of the whole system. Parliament is invited to vote, but it does not have the power to affect the root of this evil. It will only be possible to combat diseases linked to poverty effectively if we combat poverty itself and, consequently, combat the flagrant inequalities of a social organisation in which certain individuals can obtain and accumulate more wealth than entire countries possess. For instance, what is meant by the proposal – and I quote – to involve the European pharmaceutical industry in the fight against poverty-linked diseases? Everyone knows that the pharmaceutical trusts are looking to make a profit, even at the expense of the poorest people, and for them there is no question of distributing medicines, even if the cost of developing them has been written off a hundred times, to sick people who do not have the money to buy them. Moreover, when those trusts have no hope of making a profit because the disease in question affects only poor countries, they stop their research, as the report itself concludes, giving sleeping sickness as an example. The pharmaceutical industry should operate under the control of society, without bringing in private profits, and it should produce the necessary medicines so that they can be distributed to all those who need them. That would not put an end to poverty, but it could help to ensure a certain amount of equality when it comes to medical treatment."@en1

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