Many thanks for this link, I had been trying to remember the name of the company involved with the selling of sub-standard AIDS drugs to treat poor people in Africa, a deal facilitated by the Clinton Foundation, and now I found the article I had been thinking of. http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/
Thakur knew the drugs weren’t good. They had high impurities, degraded easily, and would be useless at best in hot, humid conditions. They would be taken by the world’s poorest patients in sub-Saharan Africa, who had almost no medical infrastructure and no recourse for complaints. The injustice made him livid.
Ranbaxy executives didn’t care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. “Who cares?” he said, according to Spreen. “It’s just blacks dying.”
Key findings from BLACKBURN RELEASES CLINTON FOUNDATION REPORT
· The Clinton Foundation Likely Facilitated The Distribution of Watered Down HIV/AIDS Medications In sub-Saharan Africa Through Its Health Access Initiative
· The Distribution of Watered Down HIV/AIDS Medications In sub-Saharan Africa May Have Increased Patient Mortality Rates
·Watered Down HIV/AIDS ARVs Were Purchased With Taxpayer Money Through PEPFAR As A Result of Price Agreements, Some of Which Were Likely Negotiated By The Clinton Foundation
President Clinton Was Personally Enriched With Million Dollar Consulting Contracts By A Friend of Convicted Felon, and Ranbaxy advocate, Rajat Gupta From 2002-2008
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kestrel9 ago
Many thanks for this link, I had been trying to remember the name of the company involved with the selling of sub-standard AIDS drugs to treat poor people in Africa, a deal facilitated by the Clinton Foundation, and now I found the article I had been thinking of. http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/
Key findings from BLACKBURN RELEASES CLINTON FOUNDATION REPORT