Multinational Monitor

SEP 1999
VOL 20 No. 9

FEATURES:

AIDS Drugs for Africa: Grassroots Pressure Overcomes U.S. Industry's "Full Court Press" to Block South Africa's Affordable Medicine Program
by Robert Weissman

Pills, Prevention and Profits: The Case of Tamoxifen
by Amy Allina and
Cindy Pearson

The Ties That Bind: Industry Sponsorship of Patient Groups
by Lisa Hayes

INTERVIEWS:

The Politics of Drug Safety
an interview with
Dr. Sidney Wolfe

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
Moving Gently on East Timor

The Front
Too Big to Debar? - Kathie Lee Goes on Defense

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Book Notes
Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor, by John Madeley - Reclaiming America, by Randy Shaw

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Organizations Publications
Consumer Project on Technology
P.O. Box 19367
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cptech.org

ACT UP New York
332 Bleecker Street, Suite G5
New York, NY 10014
E-mail: [email protected]
www.actupny.org/indexfolder
/NYC.html

ACT UP Philadelphia
P.O. Box 22439 Land Title Station
Philadelphia, PA 19110-2439
E-mail: [email protected]
www.critpath.org/actup

AIDS Action Council
1906 Sunderland Place, NW
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.aidsaction.org

Affordable Medicine for All
12 3rd Street, SE #1
Washington, DC 20003
www.affordablemedicine.org

Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative
600 17th Street, NW
Washington,DC 20508
www.ustr.org

Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers of America
1100 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.phrma.org

National Women's
Health Network
514 10th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20004
www.womenshealthnetwork.org

Breast Cancer Action
55 New Montgomery, Suite 323
San Francisco, CA 94105
E-mail: [email protected]
www.bcaction.org

Health Action International
c/o HAI Europe
Jacob van Lennepkade
334-T
1053 NJ Amsterdam,
THE NETHERLANDS
E-mail: [email protected]
www.haiweb.org

Public Citizen's
Health Research Group
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.citizen.org/hrg

East Timor Action Network
Box 30, 110 Maryland Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.etan.org

National Labor Committee
275 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.nlcnet.org

International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703 USA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.irn.org

Environmental Defense Fund
257 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
E-mail: [email protected].
www.edf.org

Mineral Policy Center
1612 K Street, NW, Suite 808
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
www.mineralpolicy.org

Maine Citizens Leadership Fund
1 Pleasant St.
Pleasant, ME 04101

"What is the United States' Role
in Combatting the Global
HIV/AIDS Epidemic,"
Hearing before the Subcommittee
on Criminal Justice, Drug
Policy & Human Resources
Government Reform Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
July 22, 1999
www.house.gov/reform/cj/hearings
/7.22.99/index.htm

"The Ties That Bind: Weighing
the Risks and Benefits of
Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsorship"
Amsterdam: Health Action
International, 1999

Worst Pills/Best Pills
By Sidney M. Wolfe, et al.
Washington, DC:
Public Citizen's Health Research
Group, 1999

Pills, Pesticides and Profits: The
International Trade in Toxic
Substances
Edited by Ruth Norris
Great Barrington, Massachusetts:
North River Press, 1982

Silenced Rivers:
The Ecology and Politics
of Large Dams
By Patrick McCully
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey:
Zed Books, 1996

"Six Mines, Six Mishaps"
Washington, DC:
Mineral Policy Center, 1999

Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits,
and Prevention
by Liane Clorfene-Casten
Monroe, Maine: Common
Courage Press, 1996

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
by Susan M. Love et. al.
Boulder, Colorado: Perseus,
1995

 

 

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