Bayer CEO: ‘We don’t make medicine for poor Indians’

In a crass yet frank admission, Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers said the company’s new cancer drug, Nexavar, is not “for Indians,” but “for western patients who can afford it.” The statement came in the w…

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Culture of Dependency: Coding Poverty

 

“In America when we speak of poverty we hear terms such as poor and lower class. buy stromectol canada These words by themselves mean relatively little but once they are coded they take on the connotations such as unwanted, unusable, unable, less than, bad, and/or unworthy. These coded terms then become concepts unto themselves that when used inspire ideas and notions. For instance often when hear about people being poor and lower class we think of them through the connotations attached and we develop ideas such as the thought that those people to whom these terms may refer are in such a place because they are stupid, undeserving, uncivilized, and/or lazy.”

 
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Tavis Smiley Ending Poverty and guest Ginia Bellafante on Poverty

“Tavis Talks: Ginia Bellafante. Tavis Smiley kicks off his new poverty initiative, titled “Ending Poverty: America’s Silent Spaces” with an interview with New York Times writer Ginia Bellafante, who has written several scathing stories about poverty in New York City.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Poverty is the worst form of oppression and totally unnecessary.

– Ernest Callenbach

 

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World Bank reforms aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2020 | ONE.org

http://midequalitygroup.co.uk/events/2021-04-17/ Over the weekend, the Development Committee  – a ministerial-level forum of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – unanimously endorsed a new reform strategy to align the staff, finances and priorities of the WBG to meet the twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries. The new strategy will go into effect on July 1, 2014.”
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