[lit-ideas] Re: Big Pharma's competition
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 23:59:20 -0400
$10 million is a meaningless amount of money to Bill Gates with which he
dazzles people into thinking he's a nice guy. BTW, if Bush is being
exonerated for Social Security, who do the reds think is pushing for its
demise?
> [Original Message]
> From: <Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/6/2005 11:06:06 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Big Pharma's competition
>
> HI,
> In the world where, I do think, the majority of people are preoccupied
with
> the daily ins-and-outs of life do try to do what they can to assist the
world
> and its people...even in little ways. And, while I am a bit confused at
the
> people I know who voted for our current administration and all it has
said
> it would do and who are freaking out at the budget cuts in the programs
for
> which they are involved and which are helping Others--(I got emails from
some
> telling me to write/call my senator, etc.--and who are also involved in a
> conference and Laura Bush will be the keynote speaker which [to me]
smacks of
> implicit approval for the cuts and direction of our country...the
disconnect is
> strange. But, I was at a dinner last weekend and the topic of social
security
> came up--and Pres Bush was exonerated from any problems or concerns.)
>
> So, to amuse myself, I try to find the little pieces of 'good' which are
Out
> There. There is the Jungian thought of holding the tension of the
> opposites: don't join either the victimizer or the victim but to look for
the third
> solution.
>
> I think the woman who founded what (I think) is the first not-for-profit
> pharmeucetical drug company found that 'third solution'. I had heard
about it
> some time ago (cannot find that information which talked in great detail
of
> the steps taken for that dream to come true), andt a general history can
be
> found on their website.
>
> Funding for research, etc. is being done by those who care. Not just
for
> profit, but for people. That there are the bigger foundations and
> health-oriented souls out there to assist in making this dream come true
a bit faster is
> also nice to know.
>
> Trying to shine a little bit of Light in the bleakness of the Newsworthy
> Articles,
> Marlena in Missouri
>
> Gates Foundation Awards $10 Million For 'Black Fever' Drug
> The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
> ( http://gatesfoundation.org/ ) has announced a $10 million grant to the
> Institute for OneWorld
> Health ( http://oneworldhealth.org/ ) in San Francisco to support the
> advancement of
> paromomycin, OneWorld's drug for visceral leishmaniasis (VL), through
the
> approval and
> post-approval process.
>
> VL, also known as "black fever," is a fatal disease transmitted by sand
> flies that attacks
> the internal organs. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are
currently
> infected. OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in
the
> United States, will seek
> regulatory approval for paromomycin in India this year, followed by a
> post-approval study and a complete clini- cal trial of shorter duration
to optimize
> the use of the drug. The grant will also support the company's work with
> partners to manufacture paromomycin at an affordable cost.
>
> "Currently, VL devastates entire families for generations," said
OneWorld
> Health founder and
> CEO Victoria Hale. "In addition to the death it brings, it also forces
> families to exhaust their
> assets to pay for treatment and per- petuates cycles of poverty. Given
the
> high safety level
> and initial cure rates comparable to current hospital- based therapies,
we
> believe paromomycin will help the Indian government to safely and
affordably
> control VL."
>
> "Institute for Oneworld Health Receives Multimillion Dollar Grant to Lay
> Foundation for
> Next Steps in Control of Deadly Infectious Disease." Institute for
OneWorld
> Health Press
> Release 4/14/05.
> http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/1565/iowh
>
> http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/1566/story
>
>
>
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