world news issue 79


	Frank Clemente, director of the Public Citizens'
	Congress Watch, said: "During a year in which there was much talk of sacrifice in the national interest, drug companies increased their astounding profits by hiking prices, advertising some medicines more than Nike shoes, and successfully lobbying for lucrative monopoly patent extensions."
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	"This is the government of the richest nation in history and I'm asking you for more money to stop the worst epidemic in history."
	Sir Elton John, addressing the US Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee.
	"There is no economic justification for constantly increasing prices...Not only are Aids drugs already the highest priced, but such drugs are used as a lifeline. Each new drug is a new and virtually permanent profit system for industry and its stockholders." The New York-based Gay Men's Health Crisis's 'Treatment Issues'. "One of the ironies of HAART is to spare you dying from Aids only to make you look as though you are...The longer I've been on therapy the more tired I am of taking the pills." Michael Carter, speaking at the April National Aids Manual Forum. "I think a lot of people are living longer with HIV, but are living miserably with it. There is an astonishing number of people with HIV living with chronic pain." Lark Lands, science editor of 'Poz' magazine, in the Bay Area Reporter. "Only fear made HIV prevention work in the first place." Marcus Conant, one of the first doctors to treat Aids, in the San Francisco Examiner.
	"When the epidemic had a different colour, the money was going up and up. Now that the epidemic looks like us, the money is going down and down." Dennis Deleon of the US Latino Commission on Aids.
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