Ethics

AFRICA, PHARMACEUTICS AND ETHICS
Almost all countries in Africa live in a situation of poverty and underdevelopment. On the contrary, a group of countries especially Europeanhave a big development in every field. This difference is detrimental to the first group, as they are assumed to live with hunger, wars or diseases.

This case of diseases is handedin the film ‘The Constant Gardener’ where are showed some typical diseases in Africa, like VIH or TB. The diseases are more common in these countries because there are not goodmedical techniques and means. Furthermore there are hardly hygienic measures. A British activist is murdered while she was investigating the committed and exploits of a bigpharmaceutical company that was trying a medicine against TB a planning a spread of the disease to make much money. This is a big and clear example of the submission to poor countries, whichare handled by rich governments for their interests, as they take advantage of the ingenuity and necessity of third world’s population. On the other hand there are a lot of peopleand groups with the volition to change these situations of injustice and poverty. For example NGOs or United Nations. Some ways to solve these problems could be dedicate less moneyand time from development countries to some no vital or unnecessary fields and give them to improve life and conditions in third world’s countries.

The cruelty of big business andcompanies or governments resides not only in take advantage of poor countries but not to try to equalize the situation and to eradicate the problems. In my humble opinion redressthe qualities is the major task of humanity, because everybody has the right to live free and to find happiness, which to me is the main objective of any person.

Javier Rey Muguiro