[Ip-health] EUA had pressured Brazil not to break patent of drugs antiaids

[James Love]

http://www.estadao.com.br/estadaodehoje/20071012/not_imp64059,0.php

12 de Outubro de 2007

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EUA had pressured Brazil not to break patent of drugs antiaids

official Telegramas shows American government in constant contact with
pharmaceutical industry between 2004 and 2006

Chade, GENEBRA


official Telegrams of the embassy of the United States in Bras=C3=ADlia on
negocia=C3=A7=C3=B5es between the government and the farmac=C3=AAuticas com=
panies
discloses press=C3=A3o of the White House to prevent the patent in addition=
,
the direct envolvement of the government George W. Bush with the
internal multinationals and still divis=C3=B5es in the Brazilian government=
.
The documents had been gotten by the American entity Knowledge Ecology
International (KEI), specialized in the debate on patents of rem=C3=A9dios.
Organiza=C3=A7=C3=A3o obtained libera=C3=A7=C3=A3o of official telegrams gr=
a=C3=A7as to the
Freedom of Information Act, the law of freedom of informa=C3=A7=C3=A3o of U=
.S.A..

Os telegrams had been sent to the Department of State, in Washington,
and deals with negocia=C3=A7=C3=B5es between 2004 and 2006. Between the inv=
olved
company farmac=C3=AAuticas est=C3=A3o Roche, Abbott, Gilead and Merck. "The=
y
illustrate the degree where the American government tries to manipulate
and to influence delibera=C3=A7=C3=B5es pol=C3=ADticas dom=C3=A9sticas of B=
razil as for the
access the rem=C3=A9dios", it affirms James Love, director of the KEI. "the
documents tamb=C3=A9m show as the American government works, pr=C3=B3ximo =
=C3=A0s great
company farmac=C3=AAuticas, in the embroidery frames, trying to mine
international agreements of sa=C3=BAde p=C3=BAblica."

Os texts n=C3=A3o encloses decis=C3=A3o in=C3=A9dita of the Brazilian gover=
nment, in
May, to break the patent of the Efavirenz, of the Merck, what it allows
importa=C3=A7=C3=A3o of vers=C3=B5es gen=C3=A9ricas and fabrica=C3=A7=C3=A3=
o of the rem=C3=A9dio in the
Pa=C3=ADs (reads to the side). Distribu=C3=ADdo gratuitously for the Uni=C3=
=A3o,
coquetel anticAids cont=C3=A9m 17 medicines, imported national 8 and 9. Abo=
ut
180 a thousand patients they receive the drugs, at the cost of R$ 980
milh=C3=B5es in 2007.

RECADO

As comunica=C3=A7=C3=B5es show the American embassy in Bras=C3=ADlia in con=
stant
contact with the ind=C3=BAstria, al=C3=A9m of one coordena=C3=A7=C3=A3o in =
Washington. A
telegram of June of 2005, for example, speaks of reuni=C3=B5es of
farmac=C3=AAuticas companies with the embassy in Bras=C3=ADlia. "the ambass=
ador
continues engaged to give support", affirms one of the texts. The
official notice, por=C3=A9m, alert for pol=C3=ADtica sensitivity on assunto=
.

Outro telegram, of 15 of July, counts that "() to Abbott ir=C3=A1 to
contactar the USTR (the escrit=C3=B3rio of com=C3=A9rcio of the White House=
) after
conclus=C3=B5es internal (on what far=C3=A1 in Brazil)". In many documents,=
 you
alert s=C3=A3o done on tens=C3=A3o that it would be increasing between main=
 Brazil
and empresas.

Mas one of revela=C3=A7=C3=B5es of telegrams =C3=A9 press=C3=A3o made by th=
e American
government against one patent in addition. In September of 2005, an
official notice between the embassy and Washington describe one reuni=C3=A3=
o
of American diplomats with ent=C3=A3o secret=C3=A1rio-executive of the Mini=
st=C3=A9rio
of the Sa=C3=BAde, Jos=C3=A9 Agenor Silva.

O meeting would have served so that the Americans gave the message of
that, although to want one coopera=C3=A7=C3=A3o with Brazil, the debate on =
"the
clear preoccupying" age in addition. Insinua=C3=A7=C3=A3o was clear: one ex=
pans=C3=A3o
of coopera=C3=A7=C3=A3o would be tied with the behavior of the Pa=C3=ADs in=
 the field
of patentes.

Amea=C3=A7as tamb=C3=A9m had been made. "Any decis=C3=A3o of Brazil to emba=
rk in one
licen=C3=A7a compuls=C3=B3ria can make with that manufacturers of farmac=C3=
=AAuticos
products prevent to introduce new rem=C3=A9dios in the market and would be
dif=C3=ADcil it Brazil to attract the investments that as much needs", it
says the telegram on the message given in reuni=C3=A3o.

ACORDO SECRETO

No meeting, Agenor would have answered that Brazil had changed the focus
of negocia=C3=A7=C3=A3o with the Abbott in that year to prevent pol=C3=ADti=
cos aspects
and "emo=C3=A7=C3=A3o", guaranteeing that only quest=C3=B5es t=C3=A9cnicas =
would be
evaluated. It tamb=C3=A9m affirmed that he would congregate with the
chancellor Celso Amorim and ent=C3=A3o Secretary of the Treasury, Antonio
Palocci, to deal with the subject. Agenor still affirmed that the Abbott
wanted that an eventual agreement of pre=C3=A7os was private, "something th=
at
Brazil n=C3=A3o aceitaria".

O American lobby tamb=C3=A9m occurs in the Senate. Telegram of 7 of Februar=
y
of 2006 alert one for the Project of Law 22, that prev=C3=AA proibi=C3=A7=
=C3=A3o to
patent new rem=C3=A9dios against AIDS. For the Americans, the project would
be "the biggest challenge" stops the ind=C3=BAstrias. "Preparing itself for
worse, the Interfarma (Associa=C3=A7=C3=A3o of the Ind=C3=BAstria Farmac=C3=
=AAutica de
Pesquisa, entity that represents the ind=C3=BAstrias) was j=C3=A1 entering =
in
contact in the Brazilian Senate in one esfor=C3=A7o to stop legisla=C3=A7=
=C3=A3o l=C3=A1",
American ambassador in the Pa=C3=ADs affirms the telegram signed for ent=C3=
=A3o,
Dan Danilovich.

Em another telegram, of 11 of May of 2006, the person in charge of
neg=C3=B3cios of the American embassy in Bras=C3=ADlia Philip Chicola count=
s that
he was with j=C3=A1 Agenor minister in day 9 of that one exactly m=C3=AAs. =
The
complaint was of that the proposal to have positive a bilateral agenda,
suggested by the former-minister of the Sa=C3=BAde Hail, n=C3=A3o was coher=
ent
with the attacks against the United States made for the former-director
of the Program against AIDS in Brazil, Peter Chequer.

"O minister Agenor Alvares Da Silva affirmed that the proposal made by
the former-minister Hail on one coopera=C3=A7=C3=A3o with the United States=
 =C3=A9 the
official =C3=BAnica posi=C3=A7=C3=A3o of the Minist=C3=A9rio of the Sa=C3=
=BAde. The minister
affirmed that declara=C3=A7=C3=B5es of Chequer only its was avalia=C3=A7=C3=
=B5es personal
and had been made in the quality of cidad=C3=A3o, and that its declara=C3=
=A7=C3=B5es
n=C3=A3o represented vis=C3=A3o of the government of Brazil ", it affirms
telegrama.

DIVIS=C3=95ES

Se of a side the documents show press=C3=A3o American, tamb=C3=A9m disclose
divis=C3=B5es of the Brazilian government inside. According to a telegram o=
f
June of 2005, the Minist=C3=A9rio of the Farm and the Itamaraty n=C3=A3o ha=
d
inclina=C3=A7=C3=A3o to break patents. "Our agreement =C3=A9 that, a time t=
hat
negocia=C3=A7=C3=B5es with companies has been completed (for the Minist=C3=
=A9rio of the
Sa=C3=BAde), discuss=C3=A3o ir=C3=A1 for one n=C3=ADvel ministerial where e=
con=C3=B4micos
interests of long stated period can be raised ", affirmed the telegram,
in esperan=C3=A7a of that other minist=C3=A9rios had avalia=C3=A7=C3=B5es d=
iferentes.

A American embassy n=C3=A3o hide in comunica=C3=A7=C3=A3o that precisar=C3=
=A1 to demonstrate
the preju=C3=ADzos that a patent in addition would cause =C3=A0 Brazilian e=
conomy
and =C3=A0 sa=C3=BAde p=C3=BAblica.

FALTA OF COER=C3=8ANCIA

Em another telegram, of 28 of June of 2005, the embassy and Washington
insinuates that they can explore the lack of coer=C3=AAncia of the
government. The Americans point that posi=C3=A7=C3=A3o Brazilian "n=C3=A3o =
=C3=A9 clear "on
the stated period of ten days given to break the patent of the Abbott if
the company n=C3=A3o reduced its pre=C3=A7os.

O telegram counts as the Humberto former-minister Coast announced the
breaking and later he had to come back atr=C3=A1s. The telegram still point=
s
that the American government "suspicion that minist=C3=A9rios econ=C3=B4mic=
os can
n=C3=A3o have been involved in declara=C3=A7=C3=A3o" that Abbott fixed a st=
ated period
it to lower its pre=C3=A7os. "Especula=C3=A7=C3=B5es points that Squid anun=
ciar=C3=A1 one
remodels ministerial that it involves sa=C3=ADda of Coast of the Minist=C3=
=A9rio
to make campaign to the government of Pernambuco ", says it texto.

Em 12 of August, the telegram of the embassy insinuates that some
minist=C3=A9rios would be adopting a well different tone of the Minist=C3=
=A9rio of
the Sa=C3=BAde or that at least they would know of situa=C3=A7=C3=A3o real.=
 This would
be the case of Palocci and ent=C3=A3o minister of the Development, Luis
Fernando Furlan. "In note of 28 of July the Furlan minister to the
secret=C3=A1rio of Com=C3=A9rcio (American) Guiterrez suggests of irrealist=
a form
that negocia=C3=A7=C3=B5es enters the Minist=C3=A9rio of the Sa=C3=BAde and=
 the Abbott mame
look like to be very pr=C3=B3ximas of an agreement satisfat=C3=B3rio".

Em September of 2005, another telegram ahead evidences satisfa=C3=A7=C3=A3o=
 of the
American government of the envolvement of the Amorim chancellor and the
former-president of the INPI, Robert Jaguaribe, in the process. "Despite
vis=C3=A3o of both being of that pa=C3=ADses in development n=C3=A3o must h=
ave to give
prote=C3=A7=C3=A3o that developed d=C3=A3o =C3=A0 copyright, them tamb=C3=
=A9m can inject to the
debate preocupa=C3=A7=C3=B5es on the effect of licen=C3=A7as compuls=C3=B3r=
ias the
investments and on rela=C3=A7=C3=B5es commercial ", it affirms comunicado.

A documenta=C3=A7=C3=A3o still discloses that the American government nor a=
lways
saw the result of negocia=C3=A7=C3=B5es as a vit=C3=B3ria of Brazil - altho=
ugh Bras=C3=ADlia
cant=C3=A1 it as such. In telegrams of the American consulate in S=C3=A3o P=
ablo in
the day the 30 of January 2004 to the Department of State, Americans
detach that the discounting of 10% obtained by the Pa=C3=ADs in the purchas=
e
of nelfinavir of the Roche was "the lesser discounting j=C3=A1 gotten for
Brazil ". The discouragement j=C3=A1 it had fond 76.4% and 25% reached with
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck Sharpe Dohme in 2003.