Commissioners Press Pharmaceutical Industry to Deliver on Low Cost Medicines

The European Union this week urged the pharmaceutical industry to adopt a pricing mechanism that would ensure poor countries could buy essential medicines at the lowest possible price. The move follows the UN Conference held in Brussels two weeks ago to adopt strategies for helping the world's poorest countries and an EU Action Programme targeted on major communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria) adopted by the Council of Ministers on 14 May.