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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><BIG>Millions of euros of our tax money
will be mobilised to support the development of highly-needed tests,
treatments and vaccines to fight the coronavirus. But <STRONG>unless we
act now, there is no guarantee that any medicine developed will be
affordable and available to all of us.</STRONG></BIG></SPAN></P>
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<P><BIG>Hi,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>In a few months, <B>treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 will reach
hospitals. But some of us may not be able to afford them!</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>This might happen because the <B>EU Health Commissioner and national
health ministers have not done anything to stop pharmaceutical companies from
charging high prices to healthcare systems</B> for the drugs they develop with
our tax money.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Right now, the European Commission and our national governments are
mobilising millions of euros of public funds to promote research to fight
COVID-19. [1] </BIG></P>
<P><BIG>With high prices for drugs, as the virus infects millions in Europe,
healthcare systems in wealthier countries like Germany or France may have to
choose which citizens get the treatments, while lower-income countries may not
be able to afford treatments at all. <B>No one should be denied treatment,</B>
whether it’s the elderly, migrants, the poor or the unemployed.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>The EU Health Commissioner and national health ministers must put
conditions on all COVID-19 funding: <B>Any medicine developed must be made
affordable</B> to healthcare systems. [2]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>During this emergency, as decision makers are working from home, our
online pressure is especially powerful. <B>If thousands of us sign a massive
petition and inundate their new places of work</B> -- Email, Twitter and
Facebook -- with messages, <B>our leaders will see that citizens are watching
their every move.</B> Together let’s call on them to put public health before
private profit.</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><B>If we don’t intervene, companies that receive public money may get
exclusive licenses</B> to produce medicine, so that no one else can sell the
same drugs or even get access to the medical knowledge required to produce them.
This means pharmaceutical companies can charge excessively high prices, making
it difficult for even the best healthcare system to buy enough drugs to make
them available for everyone.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>This has already happened in Europe for other life-saving medicine. The
Gilead Sciences company - which came under fire for trying to get a patent on
COVID-19 vaccines - has a monopoly on a drug to treat Hepatitis C with profits
of over EUR 20 billion from this drug alone since 2013. [3] [4] They charge
exorbitant prices to European healthcare systems for this drug, and far too many
people are denied treatment for this reason. [5]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>The corona crisis can help us create a model for the future: <B>All
future medicine developed with our public money needs to be affordable to our
healthcare systems. Period.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>It’s easy for the health commissioner and our health minister to stop
companies exploiting this crisis. It’s up to us to give them a wake-up
call.</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>In the past, we’ve proven that our people power can make a difference in
protecting our health: whether it's working to increase transparency around
pesticides in our agriculture or stopping toxic air pollution from coal plants
in Europe. [6] [7]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Today, we have the chance to use the coronavirus pandemic as a wake-up
call for us all. Not only do we need to make any COVID-19 treatment affordable
so we can take care of everyone, but we need to set the precedent that <B>our
health needs to take priority over profit.</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>To our health,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>David, Giulio (Rome), and the entire WeMove Europe team</BIG></P>
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<P><SMALL>References:<BR>[1] In the EU,
https:<SPAN>//ec.europa</SPAN>.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_440<BR>In
Germany,
https:<SPAN>//www.bmbf</SPAN>.de/de/karliczek-forschung-fuer-ein-besseres-verstaendnis-des-coronavirus-beschleunigen-11030.html<BR>In
the UK,
https:<SPAN>//www</SPAN>.gov<SPAN>.uk</SPAN>/government/news/pm-announces-new-funding-in-fight-against-spread-of-coronavirus<BR>In
France,
https:<SPAN>//www.enseignementsup-recherche</SPAN>.gouv<SPAN>.fr</SPAN>/cid150453/covid-19-la-recherche-francaise-mobilisee.html<BR>[2]
https:<SPAN>//medicinesalliance</SPAN>.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-RD-public-investments-March.pdf<BR>[3]
https:<SPAN>//www.democracynow</SPAN>.org/2020/4/2/robert_weissman_public_citizen_economy_coronavirus<BR>[4]https:<SPAN>//hepcoalition</SPAN>.org/news/press-releases/article/hepatitis-c-cure-sofosbuvir-turns-5-years-old-the-vast-majority-of-people-still?lang=en#nb1<BR>[5]
Gilead charges as much as €43,000 for one person’s 12-week treatment of
sofosbuvir in Europe
https:<SPAN>//www.msf</SPAN>.org/msf-and-groups-call-end-gilead%E2%80%99s-hepatitis-c-drug-monopoly-europe-which-blocks-access<BR>[6]
https:<SPAN>//act.wemove</SPAN>.eu/campaigns/clean-up-air-pollution<BR>[7]
https:<SPAN>//act.wemove</SPAN>.eu/campaigns/glyphosate-austria-int-en</SMALL></P>
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