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Aids Case Study In Africa

Fundamentally, despite all their altruistic posturing, pharmaceutical companies do not exist to provide medication to the afflicted.

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Pharmaceutical Case ca Case Fundamentally, despite all their altruistic posturing, pharmaceutical companies do not exist to provide medication to the afflicted. Pharmaceutical companies exist to provide profits to their owners and shareholders. As such, they have no more responsibility to distribute free product than does Wal-Mart, Kroger, Rite-Aid, or any other retailers who also profits via the sale of pharmaceuticals. Profits, not goodwill, are a company’s lifeblood. Before a single dose of medication is ingested publically for the first time, it must survive a gauntlet of intense research, FDA scrutiny, laboratory testing, marketing and awareness campaigns, and other related ...
... increasing amount of globalization, pharmaceutical companies have taken on the social responsibility role. As a result of this, it has created the Global Fund. The Global Fund to fight AIDs, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is an international financing institution that invests the world’s money to save lives. To date, the United States has committed approximately 21.7 billion dollars in 150 countries to support large-scale prevention, treatment, and care programs against the three diseases.

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