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From the most local civic groups to the largest businesses, we all want to make a difference. General Electric, for example, donates large amounts of hospital equipment. Becton, Dickinson does the same with syringes and diagnostics. Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and others have launched major drug programs, backed by considerable staff efforts, to battle devastating diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, trachoma, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and more...
...between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale University licensed an exclusive patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking the audience, “Are you going...
...Since there aren't enough doctors and nurses in most African countries, that meant recruiting young physicians from the U.S. to spend a year or two at the clinics. Most of the funding for the first class of 52 doctors in his Pediatric AIDS Corps comes from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Baylor. The clinics were built with money from BMS and Abbott. But the day-to-day operating budgets of the centers are the responsibility of local governments...
...know about the care of children; they don't have the experience caring for children, for dosing ARVs, and for handling side effects." After learning that only five to seven percent of AIDS-affected children are actually receiving drug treatments for their disease, Kline partnered with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation in 2003 to build and operate the first dedicated pediatric AIDS center in Bostwana. "I thought, five to seven percent is lousy, it's nothing to be proud of," says Kline...
Even then, Bristol-Myers Squibb was charging African patients about 40 percent more than an Indian manufacturer offered for the same drug, The New York Times reported...