tv Documentary RT October 5, 2013 11:29pm-12:01am EDT
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because the thomas from the streets reality and more to kept it for the sake of the pretty good a future generation can be free we took a couple to see the truth it's not what it appears to be truth is the real deal is simply the world it's no good to apply money in corporate interest group want to have to watch the world turns a blind eye to bring it to some. book publishing scandal make enough. money to camp to see democrats and republicans up one page so keep them in does would have a corporation say expresses the country the people who charge of those who control the money so the touch with swords group in the world open to us coupled to the funding to show us the cool kid sex would still try book interesting to. look at the videos we get from syria these days you know people chap
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a topping off t.v. they've been kept in business travel far wars then something that you play beyond that hollywood movie lies the united states of america to stop supporting people who have ideologies that can crush humanity in the name of religion in the name of interest in the name of any political. move.
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mr nor lives with his wife and child in a five metre squared room in one of the most populated and poor neighborhoods in mumbai home to twenty million people and india's commercial and industrial. sixteen years ago he moved here from the countryside seeking a better life. mr noor had the misfortune of facing two serious illnesses of the same time diabetes and leukemia. i have diabetes which used to constantly increase my doctor was worried and gave me injections but told me to do the c.b.c. examination which i did and learned that i have cancer. i fear for my family if i die i am the only one that works that is what worries me most everything else is in god's hands. he was
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diagnosed in two thousand and ten since then mr noor follows a specific treatment of vital importance to his survival. every day at noon he has to take a four hundred milligram pill which ensures a better quality of life for him. with this medicine i feel good. for my body ached and when i got up i got dizzy. and now i feel good when i used to walk i got short of breath now i don't have that problem. the drug to which mr neuros has improving health goes under the generic name. it is a copy of glivec originally introduced in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
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which greatly increased a patient's life expectancy. is a breakthrough medicine for treatment of. chronic myeloid leukemia. for what is just. as a magic bullet because it has changed that we. will be for the future. on this. read. more than ten years. which changed the life of thousands of cancer patients around the world contains
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a substance called. in order to develop the substance decades of research and public institutions when needed. the researchers discovered a common element in all patients namely a shift in the genetic material of their d.n.a. . two different genes from two different chromosomes were coalescing by mistake. producing an enzyme that causes an uncontrollable increase in white blood cell count up to twenty five times higher than normal. having found the cause the researchers invented a weapon. they created. which aims directly at the targets and inhibits this enzymes action.
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that he used to. thank you. but you had a drug. that actually. causing problems so they decided to was basically done by public apps and public money the problem really was taking the drug from the lab to the market and that's what. i. imagine it is the life saving substance for patients with my lord leukemia that is contained in glivec the drug. the exact same active substance can also be found in its copies in generic drugs like the knot which is produced by one of india's the largest pharmaceutical companies.
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product is equivalent to the one. we go to a system of trial and regulatory scrutiny which i luvs us to get periods and this product so indistinguishable and they're the same and the patient who takes our product or takes no what this product we had at the same to me could benefit. both the original and the copy of the drug are equally effective. but they are also divided by a great difference that price believe a product is sold in india but hundred twenty thousand rupees which is about four hundred dollars per month at a peak and the in ninja case. you have a retail price of two hundred dollars but would discount we give it to patient on
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hundred fifty dollars two hundred sixty games. the great price difference between the two drugs is a matter of life and death for india's poor since about thirty percent of the population lives below the poverty line surviving on less than two dollars a day. i work in a shop where i polish gold. my wife works at home sewing clothes and earning one thousand to two thousand rupees per month my wage was raised reaching now six thousand rupees about one hundred ten dollars
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a month i got a raise because i am ill and so we try to manage. with this family income barely reaching one hundred fifty dollars mr noor is unable to buy even the cop even for two hundred dollars. glivec itself costs two thousand four hundred dollars. i gathered money i also had something and sold my jewelry and my daughter. as well. and i gathered five thousand troops from the money for the greengrocer. twenty rupees he gives me for food i don't eat and keep them as well. i can't do anything i'll leave it in god's hands whatever god wants i can't do
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anything. if the generic been up did not exist mr mann us would not have survived. he sells incense sticks for the temples and his wife packs jewelry. the family income does not exceed seven thousand rupees or about one hundred forty dollars a month. if they had to buy the original glivec it would cost them one and a half their annual salary. to get one hundred twenty five thousand rupees is a huge amount looked at me and like me there are many who can't pay it can't buy it i believe that the drugs that do good should not stop being made.
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see she needs the. economic ups and downs and the find out on monday the deal sang night and the rest until you meet katie will be every week. the olympic torch is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred towns and cities of russia. really run for jimbo's and people who are sixty five thousand coming. in a record setting trip milan their c.e.o. motors phase. a limpet torch relay special coverage on
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or. some mathematicians at the swiss federal institute of technology have given us a very precise answer they did a study of who owns and controls the companies on the capital markets forty three thousand companies and they found out that there's a secret super entity they call it that owns sixty percent of the earnings every year and forty percent of the assets they did this by putting the same people on the boards of these companies so they have ten times the economic power that they're entitled to and they thought no one would catch them at it this is a huge conglomerate that has been rigging the library prices it's been rigging all of the commodities prices it's been trading in the securities. markets with insider information it has got to be stopped it also bought up all the media and has been
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lying to people deliberately. when a state grants a patient or gives a patent certificate to a company for its product it guarantees the company's monopoly for certain period of time which is usually twenty years. in this way it is believed that the company gets compensated for the innovation that contributed. however the indian state has not paid in for glivec allowing the distribution of
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exact copies on the market. for that reason in two thousand and six to suit the indian state launching a landmark legal battle. this battle was so important that it could affect the access to affordable lifesaving drugs for billions of poor people worldwide. living. forty countries. in india and about life but was rejected. of course wanted to see innovation be of value. so we are fighting to get
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a patent. more like opening. the doors the four of the four which india has but before which we have to do with the doors will be open for all these corporates to go ahead and explode on the same lines other drugs before the seams the other companies will go ahead and say ok if they were being granted on the scene grounds we should also be granted. claims that started this great legal battle just so that it's paid and gets recognition and the circulation of generics will not be at risk in the future there's no question that if drawn to a patent be a big barrier against all kinds of general products i don't see the logic of it at all and in fact you should ask the people who are telling you to explain that logic to you basically go to court and block the number of genetic companies on
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a number of different don't know why this is why this has nothing to do with. the pricing going skyrocket if it is not the case and why you find the case if that is not the case then go back to your office and start working for the benefit of the society where you did based on your time in the courts i. owe it to you. because it is hiv positive and a member of an activist group that fights for access to cheap medicines. he remembers the time before generics entered the antiretroviral drugs market when aids treatment cost almost ten thousand dollars a month. now it costs less than two hundred fifty dollars even that it to forty dollars per month to put company which is giving it it's making profit although it is not giving it for free right it's not giving it no profit or loss also it is
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making a profit out of it and good enough profit. to its employees for them it's very easy to see that all of the drugs are not available but for us if if you don't pick one drug no a favorite of ours. as it starts to replicate so for me it's a matter of life and. self-sufficiency was central to the political philosophy of independent india's patriarch mahatma gandhi who believed of his country did not need western
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technology in order to be independent on clothes food or medicines. the government's policy dating back from post colonial times was that india should be self-sufficient in the production of food and medicine. and not only did he have no part in system he had a patent system that said you could not medicine. this philosophy was ingrained in india's legal framework on peyton's which resulted in the highly important one thousand nine hundred seventy act for payment. thank. you. introduction of the nine hundred seventy bitten it was only the. applications which would. not. lead to
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a simple yes or no and begin to has invented it paul says. making it but. the invention is lying in the bull's eye it's. only the bull's. not the buddha. this policy provided the opportunity for great local generics industry to be developed in order to cater for the great need of the local population which totals almost one point two billion people. i think you may need it i think we thought. the benefit of having patent board on the cost of medicine to the point of death so basically what india said was that because companies like g.s.t. pfizer and apple to a pricing the drugs too high in the air in the sixty's in new chemists needed to be
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needed to set up facilities where we could make the drugs ourselves and these are public sector facilities because the government and they basically sort of not sure an industry into making the drugs that they needed for themselves but of course the moment the industry started to grow other developing countries and u.n. agencies and m.s.f. doctors access to the drugs from the very same source so it benefited of course you know for example india's malaria t.v. program but it also benefited patients outside of india. as a result india became the greatest global power in the production of generic drugs and at the same time protected this population and financial interests. and india is the frog. two of the words of medicines today medicines and you see in today's prices made in india is sold in the us so really new to the soil enough tickets sold in south america and generics probably make up sixty seventy percent no longer
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going to make up seventy percent of the volume of medicine so there's no fear of what you want to call the quality of the medicine i think the concern is about they they didn't aches from the fact that because of the lower costs some people suspect the lower standards were no examples of drugs from big names you know drugs i think have to be to cold because we found that there were some problems with quality some boxes that were not so. good and so on so if you have a system in place that if you have to re mechanism that guarantees that your drugs of good quality then they're more like your actual active ingredient that the drug has doesn't really come with about and when you swallow your appeal you don't swallow also. the trade names like nobody's or i don't like i would call many pfizer he just sort of this particular chemical molecule that will kill your body
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to fight infection or out of a disease everyday glittery authority or any of these bigger countries they come to the factory before the three of them licenses example enough actually we have the u.s. if to get. approval we have german a pool we have a pool from greece to be sent to the liberties of selling a product to moody's we have people from australia so that it is a system where all regulatory authorities don't take chances they all come and make sure the proposition because there's in place would lead then the ilo. thank.
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but my son has cancer here on the side. he had surgery we're staying here. but there was a lump in my chest. i went to get tested and they told me it was cancer and let me go. inside. what should i do all the money i have saved was spent on the trip to come here it is gone. but what will i do know. that where will i go where will i state. that. mr kumar is a professor of oncology and works for one of the country's largest counter hospitals . india to be have almost one million new cases at the.
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beach and if we reprint of what we call it would list the pieces you'd be close to ten million. only a small percentage who can get the money to miss become independent of the government sponsored government employees they can get the investment and so in such a set up lake the biosimilars with the same quality can produce some good if you. are really good at the place will be even less a place and i think it becomes a bit of a usual thing for the system. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each day. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong push
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against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are priest to tool there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe the. poor and that free. enterprise is profit. for social justice golden rice on our team. made it out of. the real thing but. it's no good saying he's going off to you really. expect some of the toughest training. in the press. that's the problem.
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