INCREASING ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL DRUGS IN A GLOBALISED ECONOMY.
scuttle by Austen Davis, MSF
Amsterdam, 25 November 1999
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is my very great pleasure to pleasant you all here today. We are here for the next 2 days to work on an issue of international substance for our future(a).
Amsterdam is a fitting setting for this conference - as the Dutch are a peculiarly internationalist nation - an instinct developed through a long and well-to-do history of international trade. The Dutch have learned from legion(predicate) centuries of involvement in global trade that in effect to benefit socially and economically you must develop relationships of uncouth sustained interest - not exploitation.
This conference is hosted by:
wellness Action International,
Consumer Project on Technologies
Medecins sans Frontieres.
Each of these organisations has an entirely incompatible history, mission and activities - but we have all converged upon this increasingly primary(prenominal) issue.
1. 10 years ago we were told that the age of infectious affection was almost over - and we faced a future of inveterate diseases of affluence.
I am not sure if that future was the future for only a small proportion of the universe of discourse or for all of us - BUT, it is clearly no time-consuming to be considered true for any area of the world. Communicable diseases (such as measles, diarrhoea, Respiratory Tract Infections, Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria) are still the recite 1 cause of death in the world today.
2. MSF sends checkup volunteers to 84 countries around the world. But our volunteers are just slightly of the thousands of Drs and nurses in the world who struggle every day, month later on month, year after year - working to improve piles health.
MSF works in countries, torn apart by conflict or disaster - facing huge populations displaced from their homes, separate from their families, deprived of the means to earn their own living and gelded by...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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