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To: microhoogle! who wrote (494554)	11/18/2003 2:56:59 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

What a load of drivel. First let me inform you why India will never "flood the market with cheap drugs". Because the companies who are paying Indians to make those cheap drugs in FDA approved facilities(the only way you'll sell them in the US.) will probably be owned by Americans! Now, before you shower with another "Indian's are holier than thou" post. Let me first debunk every load of crap you stated in your post. RE: Donations to Africa: biomedcentral.com. This article is from 2000. The US has always been the biggest donor to developing nations. Always. globalstrategies.org Re: Stem Cells. Whoopeee. A couple Indian companies are working on stem cells. Too bad they won't be able to afford the equipment to do any cutting edge research because the Indian government has too high a tariff. Also bear in mind they'll be competing with a number of other people accross the globe who are better funded and American companies. Re: India playing by international laws and regulations + WTO. The biggest line of crap of your whole post. How about them sweatshops???? wired.com newdream.org globalmarch.org sweatshopwatch.org How about that free trade? mac.doc.gov indianembassy.org google.com "India's tariffs average more than 100 percent and three of our largest customers, the EU, Japan, and Korea impose tariffs that are 3 to 5 times more than those of the United States, which averages 12 percent." ilfb.org How about those environmental regulations? business.nsw.gov.au Indians caused Bhopal. Indians have polluted their environment, so get over it and clean it up. If you can't produce goods without killing yourselves, then don't produce them. India is no better than any other country that breaks the backs of it's own people and hopes to steal from other peoples wealth. You can blather on all you want but the facts speak for themselves. India has a long way to go before you'll ever be competing on an even level with the 1rst world, and not ripping off jobs for absurdly low wages. So don't beat your chest about how proud India is for being the group of people who will do the "next to the lowest level" of work in the world. Voodoo Oh, and for some reason I can't quite understand, all of the Indian guys I work with aren't clammering to get back to India to work. I just don't understand that. Hmm...

To: microhoogle! who wrote (494554)	11/25/2003 9:11:00 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Hey Sweatshop King, Manufacturing drugs is not always about making "real money". May I remind you that while US drug manufacturing firms hemmed and hawed on donating AIDs drugs to African nations, one of the Indian drug manufacterers made a substantial contribution. Besides the drug is many times cheaper. Unfortunately name of the company and drug escapes me and too tired to google for it this late night. LOL Care to remind me again about how you make things up as you go? Or maybe you Indians are so busy worrying about other peoples biz you forgot about that epidemic at home? azcentral.com Record 5 million people worldwide became infected with HIV in '03 Marilynn Marchione Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Nov. 25, 2003 05:39 PM MILWAUKEE - One in five adults in Africa now has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the annual United Nations report on the scope of the epidemic. A record 5 million people became infected with HIV worldwide and 3 million died of the disease during 2003, the report says. Every day, about 14,000 people were newly infected. "It comes down to 10 people a minute," said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which issued the report with the World Health Organization in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. The report also contained some good news - successful prevention programs have slowed the rate of new infections in some countries, including those aimed at keeping women from passing the virus to their children, although fewer than 1 percent of pregnant women in Africa get drugs to prevent such transmission. Drug prices have dropped so severely that treatment is now possible and affordable in many areas of the world that couldn't dream of providing drugs on a large scale before. Spending on AIDS from all sources - governments and individuals in affected countries - also has increased dramatically, to $4.7 billion this year, nearly double that of the year before but still short of the $10 billion health experts say is needed. "The glass is now half full or half empty," depending on your view, Piot said. Worldwide, about 40 million people are living with HIV, including 2.5 million younger than 15. In the United States, about 900,000 to 1 million are infected, and as many as one-fourth to one-third of them are unaware they are, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Africa accounted for more than 3 million of the 5 million new infections and 2.3 million of the 3 million AIDS deaths last year. Infection rates vary by country, from less than 1 percent in Mauritania to almost 39 percent in Botswana and Swaziland. In several countries, deaths almost match new infections, "creating a cycle of illness and death due in great part to the almost complete absence of large-scale HIV prevention or anti-retroviral treatment programs," the report says. Women in Africa are at least 1.2 times more likely to be infected than men, and young women are 2.5 more times more likely to have HIV than similarly aged men are. "More than one in five pregnant women are HIV-infected in most countries in southern Africa," the report says. The epidemic also worsened in China, India, Indonesia and Russia, mostly due to drug use and unsafe sex. Prevalence also is rising in other parts of Asia and the Pacific that until recently had little HIV. More than 4 million people in India are infected, the second-highest total for an individual country after South Africa. "AIDS is tightening its grip on southern Africa and threatening other regions of the world. Today's report warns regions experiencing newer HIV epidemics that they can either act now or pay later - as Africa is now having to pay," Piot said. For more information, visit www.unaids.org.