About 30 years after the discovery of the AIDS virus, the epidemic always runs. More than 6000 persons are contaminated in France every year. The speeches of prevention seem to get out of breath and the long-awaited, still far vaccine. In spite of campaigns always more numerous, the homosexuals remain the most exposed(explained) to the AIDS virus. A first report on the contaminations which do not fall in this population.
The affair of the Mediator revealed in a tragic way the drift and the dysfunctions of the market of the medicine in France. Nevertheless in a country where 9 consultations on 10 end in prescriptions (that is twice more than in the Netherlands) the question has its importance. This very steady consumption of medicines contributed to make the strength of the French pharmaceutical companies which saw their profits multiplied by 5 in 20 years. This financial power allowed them to weave networks and extremely powerful lobbies at the risk of colliding with alarming conflicts of interests.
To where we can go in bioethics? It is the question this episode poses by welcoming Jean Leonetti. The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes chairs the general States of the Bioethics, the big national and public-spirited debate which precedes the revision of the laws of bioethics. Two reports to make the stakes understand: On the egg donation: unpaid in France, there are few donors. Consequence, the couples for the worse of children turn to other countries, as Greece where even the United States, where a donor can receive more than 10000 dollars for her ovum.
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