August 1, 1999 open letter to Vice President Al Gore, signed by 307 public health experts and concerned persons, regarding US trade pressures on South Africa efforts to obtain access to essential medicines.


August 1, 1999

Dear Vice President Gore,

We are writing to express opposition to trade pressures you are bringing against the people of South Africa over their struggle to obtain access to essential medicines.

The White House dispute with South Africa concerns three basic points.

  1. The South Africa government has indicated it wants to use compulsory licensing of medical patents to produce cheaper copies of HIV drugs and other essential medicines. This is of course legal under the WTO/TRIPS agreement, subject to Article 31 safeguards.
  2. The South Africa government wants to authorize "parallel imports" of pharmaceuticals, so that it can buy drugs in the United States, Europe or elsewhere, in order to get the best world price. As you know, parallel importing of pharmaceuticals is legal under Article 6 of the WTO/TRIPS agreement, and is a common practice in Europe.
  3. The South African government has approved generic versions of Taxol, a US government invention for treating cancer.

As co-chairman of the US/South Africa Binational Commission (BNC) you have authorized a wide range of trade pressures against South Africa, much of which is documented in a February 5, 1999 report to the Congress by the US Department of State. Despite increasing criticism of the US bilateral pressures on South Africa, here and internationally, your office has authorized new trade pressures against South Africa on April 30, 1999. http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/sa/sa301-ap99.html"

The USTR April 30, 1999 announcement of a Special 301 out-of-cycle review of trade pressures against South Africa ignored every shred of information that has been provided to your office by public health groups. Indeed, this most recent announcement is basically a recycled version of the February 16, 1999 submissions by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures Association (PhRMA), the trade association that represents giant drug companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson that are trying to stop South Africa from implementing policies to cut costs for pharmaceuticals in South Africa.

It is shocking that the US government is adopting such an aggressive trade policy on behalf of US pharmaceutical companies, when all of sub-Saharan Africa is confronted with a public health crisis of historical dimensions. The US Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher, recently wrote in the Journal of the America Medical Association that "HIV/AIDS can be likened to the plague that decimated the population of Europe in the 14th century." Dr. Satcher says that "in many southern African countries, HIV/AIDS has become an unprecedented emergency, with 20% to 26% of people between the ages of 15 and 49 infected." This is a here-and-now emergency. It is not a hypothetical or potential emergency. These people will die without access to pharmaceutical drugs.

Your response to this emergency should be to find ways to save lives. But look what you are doing.

As the Vice President of the United States you are in a position to do much good or much harm in the world. US voters will soon be asked to determine if you should be the next President of the United States. Please explain why they should choose you.

Sincerely,

James Love
Director
Consumer Project on Technology
Washington, DC 

Dr. Bernard Pécoul
Project Director
Access to Essential Drugs
Médecins Sans Frontières
Geneva, Switerland

Joelle Tanguy
Executive Director
Doctors Without
Borders/Medecins Sans
Frontieres USA
 
Eric Sawyer
Executive Director 
HIV/AIDS Human Rights Project
NY, NY

Kim Nichols
Development Director
African Services Committee,
Inc.

Bas van der Heide
Director
Health Action International
Europe

Beryl Leach
Africa Program Coordinator
Health Action International

Lori Wallach
Director
Global Trade Watch
Washington, DC 

Professor Richard Laing
Associate Professor,
Department of International
Health, Boston University

Robert Weissman
Co-Director, Essential Action
Washington, DC 

Bob Lederer
Senior Editor
POZ Magazine

Steve Suppan, PhD
Director of Research
Institute for Agriculture and
Trade

Axel Delmotte
Act Up - Paris

Professor Patrick Bond
University of the
Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and
Development Management
Johannesburg, South Africa

Clarence Mini, MD
Treatment Action Campaign
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Province, South Africa

Ellen 't Hoen
International Drug Policy
Consultant
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mike Scherer
Aetna Professor of Public
Policy
John F. Kennedy School of
Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass

John S. James
Editor and publisher
AIDS Treatment News
San Francisco, CA
     
David Scondras
President, Search for a Cure

Dr.Mira Shiva 
Coordinator 
All India Drug Action Network 
New Delhi, India 

Dr. Amir Attaran, LL.B.
Director
The Malaria Project, CSRL
Washington, DC  USA

Andrew Herxheimer      
Emeritus Fellow
UK Cochrane Centre
London, UK

Anna Ponte
AVVA Frontera Gran Sabana 
Caracas, Venezuela

Alejandro Argumedo
Coordinator
Indigenous Peoples'
Biodiversity Network
Cusco, PERU

Ian Stevens
Falmouth
Cornwall, UK                     

Alex LoCascio
United Food and Commercial
Workers 
Lynchburg, VA, USA

David C. Korten
President
The People-Centered
Development Forum
U.S.A.

Parshu Ram Tamang
Tribhuvan University 
Kathmandu, Nepal

Dr. Dale A. Hathaway
Professor of Political Science
Butler University        
Indianapolis, IN  U.S.A.

Mr. Wiert P. Wiertsema
Policy Coordinator
Both ENDS
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Oystein Tveter
Human Rights Lawyer
Vinderen, Oslo, Norway

John Y. Jones
Director
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OSLO, NORWAY

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May Waddington
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tim Luckett
University of Hertfordshire 
Hertfordshire, England.
               
Dr. David Fig
University of the
Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Peter McLaverty
Senior Lecturer
University of Luton
Luton, England 

Toine Pieters
Medical Historian, School of
Medicine
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Professor
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Ms. Diana Smith
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Dashiell Love
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Joe Goozeff
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Cherrel Africa
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Institute for Democracy in SA
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Arnold Ward
GeneEthics Network and South
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Etienne Vernet
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Southern California
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of America

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Union
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Canada

Jesse Vorst
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University of Manitoba
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Michael Ash
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Dept. of Economics, UC
Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Gladys Schmitz 
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Dame)
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Yash Tandon
Professor
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Network
Harare, Zimbabwe

Angus Kerr
Engineer
Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South
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Jaroen  Compeerapap
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University 
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David Gofstein    
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Alan Berkman, MD
Medical Specialist
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Elina Hemminki
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Eric F. Miller
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Ernst Mayer
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Mechanical &
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Faye Powell     
Professor, Social Sciences
Librarian
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Edgar F. Starr
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Fred Turner
Ph.D. Candidate
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James W. Sanders
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Inc.
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Society of Mary
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Development
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Diego
San Francisco, CA, USA

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Economic Research, University
of Alaska-Anchorage
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Lecturer
The University of Melbourne
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J. G. Krishnayya
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Richard Crawford
Lecturer in Information Age
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Davis, CA, USA

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Falmouth, Massachusetts
 
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President
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P.E.
Consultant
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Research Analyst
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Editor
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Student
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South Africa (Idasa)
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Democrat
Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA

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General Manager 
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Los Angeles, CA, USA

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PhD
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of Applied Ecology
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Santa Paula, CA, USA

Beth Burrows
President/Director
The Edmonds Institute
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Tim Mitchell
London,  England

Furio de Tomassi 
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PHD Candidate
Syracuse University
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Rev. Walter C. Scott
Presbyterian Church (USA)
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Women's Global Network for
Reproductive Rights
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Attorney at law
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Linz 
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Initiative Linz (HOSI-Linz),
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Executive Director
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Les Levidow
US Citizen living in the UK

Lindasusan Ulrich
Member, BiNet USA
San Francisco, CA

Dr. Jan Low
Research Fellow
International Food Policy
Research Institute
Mozambique

Ana Luceda Estrada
Vice President
Fundaci Marco Antonio
Guatemala, Central America

Marion Banzhaf
Consultant, Ms. Foundation for
Women
New York, New York

Merrill Cole
Ph.D. Candidate in English and
the Program in Theory and
Criticism
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Michael Kink
Legislative Counsel
Housing Works, Inc.
New York, NY USA

Michael Roos 
Ganymede Design
442 West Fourth Street
South Boston, MA  02127

Miho Takeshita
research assistant
Tokyo Woman's Christian
University
Zenpukuji, Suginami-ku, Tokyo
167 JPN

Mike Livingston
Steering Committee
D.C. Green Party
Washington, D.C.

Mitchell Halberstadt
Journalist and author
Daly City, CA, USA
 
Rosalie Johnson, MD
Staff Physician,
Fulton County Health
Department
HIV/AIDS Clinic
Atlanta, GA., USA.

Professor Moshe' Machover
Department of Philosophy
King's College, London
London WC2R 2LS
England  

Sanjukta Mukherjee
Washington, DC USA

Greg Mullins, Ph.D.
Professor
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA  98505

Pablo Colon, DPM
Director of Treatment
Education and Advocacy
Department 
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)
New York, NY
    
Sydney Levy
Research and Advocacy Director
International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission
     
Peter Lien
Photographer
Philadelphia, PA 19106