APPENDIX
THE AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL GROUP (APG)
The APG represents all the major American pharmaceutical
companies which are also based in the UK.
The Group believes that basic healthcare should
be independent of where people live. About 2 billion people, one-third
of the world's population, do not have access to essential healthcare
services and medicine; many of them live in low income countries.
APG member companies are committed to enhancing
access to medicines in Low Income Countries (LICs) in Africa through
a variety of measures, including:
— Research and development of new medicines
for diseases disproportionately affecting developing countries.
— Humanitarian programmes, product donations
and product access programmes that provide medicines at significant
discounts, or at no profit levels.
— Capacity building programmes, ranging
from local health care professional skills development, to technology
transfers going to companies based in LICs.
Together, these individual programmes improve
and extend the lives of millions of the world's most disadvantaged
people.
The members of the APG already make a real difference
to the quality of healthcare and lives around the world through
a variety of individual initiatives and philanthropic programmes.
These are set out in the APG brochure "Access to Medicines"
(see www.apg.uk.com).
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