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Medicines Act, a deficit of Democracy Human Papillomavirus




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(Ideas Engine / April 1910) .- The lobby of medical laboratories, coupled with the apathy or connivance of lawmakers, has prevented the enactment of a National Drug Law for four decades. The consequences of this legal vacuum is an affront to public health. Argentina

Democracy owes society a National Drug Law, because since 1983, attempts to impose a regulatory text for the industry lobby failed by the medical laboratory. A similar story to the Broadcasting Act, perhaps less intoxicating than the media, but no less perverse.

De Oñativia to nothing radical government of Arturo Illia in 1965 enacted the Medicines Act of Minister of Health, Arturo Oñativia Salta, a law that was one of the reasons the military coup in 1966, blessed by the pharmaceutical multinationals. It's almost obvious to mention that this law was overturned just joined the dictator Onganía the Casa Rosada.

image source Over forty years later in Argentina there is a Medicines Act and the only way forward to cut the corporate greed was the Generic Prescription Act enacted in 2002 by Congress at the request of Minister Ginés González García. Laboratories have avoided for more than four decades of successive parliaments of democracy adopted a National Drug Law. Some drugs in Argentina reach the pharmacy counter with a difference of 33 000 percent to the cost of raw materials, when entering the port of Buenos Aires, according to a report released in 2007 the Association of Advertising Agents Medical.

In Argentina no such abuse of market research. But multinationals are less fortunate in their head. The European Commission launched in 2008 an antitrust investigation and obstructing the entry of competitors generic against Sanofi-Aventis (France and Germany), GlaxoSmithKline (UK), Astra-Zeneca (Swedish-American), Sandoz (Swiss), and Johnson & Johnson (U.S.).

The investigation included court proceedings, qualified sweeps journalism, inspectors and officials who invaded the offices of laboratories to stir until the final document and the last file that could be stored on computers.

Can anyone imagine a similar process in the Argentine laboratories in an attempt to explain the reasons for the premium of 2,258 percent of Lexotanil Roche, one of three best-selling drugs el país? ¿O para dilucidar la tasa de rentabilidad del Losec (omeprazol) de Astra-Zeneca que asciende a

33.130 por ciento , pues el costo de la droga es de $0,13 por unidad pero se vende en las farmacias a $43,16? Cómo los laboratorios arrodillaron a la democracia Con el retorno de la democracia, Aldo Neri, ministro de Salud de Raúl Alfonsín, convocó a todos los sectores involucrados en el mercado farmacéutico para discutir una Ley Nacional de Medicamentos. Los colegios profesionales de médicos y farmacéuticos acudieron a la convocatoria e incluso uno de ellos, Antonio Somaini, presidente del Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Capital Federal, received intimidating phone calls requesting him not to mess with the industry.

Laboratories chose to boycott the call and matched what had hit door to prevent the approval of the National Drug Law, came as Economy Minister, Juan Vital Sourrouille, who in turn warmed her ears that Alfonsin that law would be an obstacle to the negotiations held with the IMF. There was also a Swiss ambassador who went to the Casa Rosada to explain to the president "how to organize" the pharmaceutical market.

The former Representative Aldo Neri and the Peronist Silvia Martínez between 2003 and 2005 prompted the enactment of a National Drug Law. The projects were drawers in the Committees on Health of Representatives.

In this regard, until last year, chairman of the Committee on Health, Santa Fe John Sylvestre Begnis, promised to revive the parliamentary debate after the enactment of this statute and recognized that the Argentine Congress "is in default ".

is the opportunity to fulfill promises to show that the employer has stopped lobbying to whisper to the ears of presidents and legislators, as they did before in the ears of the generals of Onganía. Posted by


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