Jonhson & Johnson Shady Business and Tuberculosis
All information is in this video by John Green, the intern behind @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5SW0h4&ab_channel=vlogbrothers
The important bits:
Johnson & Johnson is a pharma company that in 2003 invented the first tuberculosis medicine since like the 60s. They got a patent, because they like money. That patent expires in just a few days, which means that now other companies should be able to make way cheaper versions.
However they also got a patent in 2006 or so (I forgot the date already), for a specific bit that makes the medicine work a bit better. They are going to enforce this patent in large parts of the world, to prevent other companies from making cheap versions of the original medicine.
This is going to cost roughly 6 million lives, due to the number of people who will remain unable to afford the medicine between the expire of these medicines.
To protest against this, this post is part of a social media campaign of shaming the company and *respectfully* approaching its employees and directors to tell them this is bad, and furthermore to try to get generic versions of their stuff to also hit their profit margin.
This is a provided picture of a number of their products.
And these are their generic socials. Remember, don't act like you did when you bullied John off of tumblr, be polite but angry.
Tell them on twitter: https://twitter.com/JNJNews and https://twitter.com/JNJGlobalHealth Tell them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jnj/ Tell them on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jnj/?hl=en
Again, further information in the video linked at the top.
