How are Big Pharma like hedge funds? – With Nick Dearden
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As the World Health Organization (WHO) continue to negotiate the Pandemic Accord, Max and Grazielle interviews Nick Dearden on Pharma patents, monopolies and greed that makes them price medical tools out of reach by people who need them. They also discuss how the public funded research changes hand to be a patent for big pharmaceutical companies whose only concern is to make profit rather than save lives. Nick Dearden is the Director of Global Justice Now and the author of Pharmanomics a book on how big pharma destroy global health. As always, please leave us a review and connect us on X and on LinkedIn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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