International Alliance of Patients Organization (IAPO) --- partners with pharmaceutical industry

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Thanks to Dr. K Balasubramaniam for this pointer to a news 
item in Health Horizons No. 36, winter 1998/99, p.24.

      The International Alliance of Patients 
      Organization (IAPO) a cross-disease and 
      multinational organisation will be formally
      operational in January 1999; IAPO comprises 
      more than 50 patients' organisations mainly 
      from Europe and the US but also from South
      America and Africa. 

      Mr Enrique Silver of IAPO declared, "IAPO has 
      a very strong partnership with the pharmaceutical 
      industry and is looking forward to the establishment 
      of a partnership with the World Health Organization.  
      IAPO will advocate in favour of the TRIPs Agreement."


In the United States and Europe, the pharmacuetical industry has 
already co-oped many patient groups, turning them into to 
low paid PR and lobbying arms of the industry trade assocations
on many important policy issues.

   Jamie

-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org