Did anyone watch Mark Thomas last night? His show was all about how pharmaceutical companies are dumping useless drugs in needy countries so that they can get a tax break - often causing huge disposal costs for the country concerned.

Visit:

http://www.mtcp.co.uk/

to find out more - click on the links to drug dumping and especially read the report he produced with the support of War on Want. We need to raise the profile of this so that the same tax break laws that are in the US do not become law here without incorporating the WHO guidelines on appropriate drug donations.

Bagpuss