June 2002 - VOLUME 23 - NUMBER 6
The Face of Big Pharma’s Failure
Haqiqa’s face has been damaged by Leischmaniasis, a neglected disease. Spread by sandfleas, the disease eats deep craters into the skin. Zira Gul looks better but is actually in worse condition. She has been suffering from diarrhea and is dehydrating. The girl urgently needs medical attention, but the nearest docter is days away and she would have to travel over the mountain passes by donkey or horse. Her mother Acha Jan is incapable of looking after her children. She is ill, has a fever and headaches: “There’s nothing left to eat in the house. My husband Mohammed Nasir left four months ago to look for work. Ever since, we have been waiting for him to send us food. We can only wait. We’re neither dead nor alive.”
An Epidemic of Neglect: Neglected Diseases
and the Health Burden in Poor Countries
-- Rachel Cohen
Victory and Betrayal: The Third World Takes
on Rich Countries in the Struggle for Access to Medicines
-- Asia Russell
also Commentary: Patents Pools and the
AIDS Crisis
— James Love
The Evergreen Patent System: Pharmaceutical
Company Tactics to Extend Patent Protection
-- Robert Weissman
Behind the Lines
Editorial
Stripping Away Big Pharma’s Fig Leaf
The Front
Haiti’s Not-So-Free Zones
The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award
Interviews
Essential Drugs and Health for
All: Healthy Innovations from Bangladesh
An Interview with Zafrullah Chowdhury