Creation of New Generic Drugs by Thailand: A Model Nation

Thailand has shown its initiative with its consitituents who are suffering from deadly HIV/AIDS disease by creating generic drugs as a response to what they call national emergency.

As what everybody knows, Thailand issued compulsary licenses to two patented drugs known to treat HIV/AIDS and heart diseases. Abbot, a international drug pharmaceutical company who holds patent among these drugs expresses digusts about the outcome, threatening Thailand even more with not selling them drugs that the company will develop in the future.

This decision was part of an overwhelming demand for cheaper drugs because Thailand has the most number of HIV/AIDS patients in Asia at the very least with more than half a million patients infected by this virus. This demand even encourages health officials to develop cheaper patented drugs as they declare such national call.

Although I quite understand why Abbot behaved such way, what I despise is the way they dealt with the issue and stated that they will cease production and sales to Thailand due to the decision made by the incumbent government. It saddens me when pharmaceutical companies are suppose to work on the manufacture of quality drugs that are sold in a fair price.

Is that how capitalism should work in a certain community? Working on generating drugs that cure yet without a heart? Just asking.

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