Recently leaked corporate memos show once again that pharmaceutical companies always put profit over health. The recent example of Gilead shows how the pharmaceutical industry uses patent law to stifle medical progress and hurt the public.
The US government has emergency powers to limit patents. I can’t recall a time it’s been yet in recent memory (but they could pull out the parliamentarian bullshit).
But you’d think a drug that reduces the transmission of HIV down to under a percent would be freely available. I mean just make it freely available, have doctors recommend it when applicable, and we could reduce HIV to a more manageable condition.
I think about gay men I’ve talked to who couldn’t afford PrEP or didn’t even know it existed. Sex education is a nightmare in the US and we’re sending lgbt kids in blind when there are so many resources stuck behind paywalls.
The US government has emergency powers to limit patents. I can’t recall a time it’s been yet in recent memory (but they could pull out the parliamentarian bullshit).
But you’d think a drug that reduces the transmission of HIV down to under a percent would be freely available. I mean just make it freely available, have doctors recommend it when applicable, and we could reduce HIV to a more manageable condition.
I think about gay men I’ve talked to who couldn’t afford PrEP or didn’t even know it existed. Sex education is a nightmare in the US and we’re sending lgbt kids in blind when there are so many resources stuck behind paywalls.