Protect Access to Lifesaving Medicine!
Right now, the U.S. government is advocating for terms in a new trade deal that could make life-saving medicine unaffordable for millions. These terms would make it more difficult for patients and providers like Doctors Without Borders to access affordable generic medicines for tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and many more diseases.
Already, too many people suffer and die because the medicines they need are too expensive or do not exist.
We cannot stand by as this proposed agreement threatens to restrict access even further. As the U.S. Trade Representative begins the next round of negotiations, join Doctors Without Borders in calling for a stop to the most harmful trade provisions ever for access to medicines.
Dear Decision Maker:
I am asking that the U.S. withdraw its demands on the intellectual property, investment and pharmaceutical pricing chapters in Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
I'm concerned that the health of millions of people in developing countries could be seriously harmed by certain policies that the U.S. government is demanding in the TPP, which will make it harder for patients, governments and treatment providers like Doctors Without Borders to access price-lowering generic medicines.
[Your comments here]
The US government should fulfill its commitments to protecting access to medicines in developing countries and withdraw these harmful new terms.
Sincerely,
[Your name here]
