Please read the Report of Prof. Jeffrey Sachs/Director of Earth Institute/Columbia University:
Jeffrey Sachs
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Gilead's Greed that Kills
July, 27, 2015.
Gilead Sciences is an American pharmaceutical company driven by unquenchable greed. The company is causing hundreds of thousands of Americans with Hepatitis C to suffer unnecessarily and many of them to die as the result of its monopolistic practices, while public health programs face bankruptcy. Gilead CEO John C. Martin took home a reported $19 million last year in compensation--the spoils of untrammeled greed.
Hepatitis C is a global public health crisis, called a "viral time bomb" by the World Health Organization. 150 million people or more worldwide are estimated to be living with the disease.