Pharma Greed Kills (Sub: Eng, Spa, Hun, Ser, Rom, Rus, Pol)
Channel: Drugreporter
Date: 2012-08-06

Hepatitis C has been dubbed „the silent epidemic" -- because the infection remains unnoticed for several years or decades after the transmission of the virus, and also because this epidemic got much less public attention than HIV. Hepatitis C is much more infectious than HIV and in the majority of cases it leads to liver cirrhosis that can be lethal. Approximately 2 million people are infected with Hepatitis C every year, many of them belong to marginalized groups like injecting drug users. The treatment for Hep C (pegylated interferon) is marketed by big pharmaceutical companies (Merck and Roche) and costs thousands of dollars for a few weeks. As a result, there is a very low access to treatment in transitional and developing countries. Activists at the International AIDS Conference disrupted a seminar sponsored by Roche to protest the high prices and „Big Pharma's greed". The HCLU's video advocacy team filmed the action and asked participants to explain their cause.

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