Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global pharmaceutical prices

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 00:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Global pharmaceutical prices

Global pharmaceutical prices (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Unreferenced possible WP:NOR issues. Unencyclopedic Sting au Buzz Me... 11:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear Sir/Madam

The content is very valid for encyclopedic content. It serves to provide a reflection of the globlal price variances of pharmaceuticals. This is extremely important. In fact this very discussion falls within the ambit of pharmaco-economics and there are departments at universities and government agencies that deal with this subject daily. The intention of this article is to highlight the exploitation by global pharmaceutical multi-national companies of the third world. I am from South Africa, we are in the midst of a AIDS pandemic and the country is not able to provide ARVs ( anti retrovirals) to the millions of suffering poor people because multinational pharma companies refuse to make it affordable to the masses of poor impoverished people. We as humans have to decide and weight the importance of intellectual property rights and patent laws versus the human right to affordable medicines.

Another reason is to reflect the price discrepancies multi-national companies have from country to country.

i.e. A product Neksium ( chemical name: esomeprazole, strenght 40mg, company AstraZeneca) sells in India for under $2 but the same product from the same multinational sells in South Africa for $45.

South African companies cannot make generic copies of this product as they are bound by the international TRIPS (treaty of international property rights) agreement. We in the third world are being exploited by multinational companies. We being the poorest of the poor!

Faizal Mahomed Ayob

Faizal Mahomed Ayob —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheApothecary (talk • contribs) 12:00, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Strong Delete as per WP:OR. Clear case of original research. A nice article for a magazine but not for WP. -- Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 12:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Strong delete Per Niaz RogueNinja_talk 15:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOT and WP:RS. Wikipedia doesn't house random lists, and facts should be sourced. Majoreditor (talk) 15:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete WP:OR mess of lists. Boarder line WP:SOAP.--Pmedema (talk) 18:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. Indeed notable, but this article is “original research” and appears to be written to push a point-of-view. —SlamDiego_←T 18:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. —Espresso Addict (talk) 11:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. This is certainly a potentially encyclopedic topic; however, the current article appears an unsalvageable mess. Espresso Addict (talk) 11:25, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
• Delete because Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advocacy of any kind. Someguy1221 (talk) 16:05, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.