The American pharmaceutical giant MSD will halt its distribution of the hepatitis C drug Zepatier, a highly sought-after medication for treating hepatitis C, to the Russian market, Kommersant reports, citing a letter sent by the Ministry of Health cautioning medical establishments about the impending cessation of shipments
  • andyburke@kbin.social
    88·
    10 months ago

    Russia has launched a war of aggression. Russian leader Putin enjoys an 80% approval rating. This change won’t happen for a year:

    Consequently, the planned deliveries for the year 2024 will remain unaffected.

    Stop trying to make this out like the west is doing anything even close to what Russia is. If Russia wants to be an aggressive pariah state, they can make their own fucking drugs.

    • purahna@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      36·
      10 months ago

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/

      the west isn’t doing anything even close? I think Russia isn’t doing anything even close tbh, there’s a very big difference between invading one country that’s bordering you and invading a dozen half way across the world, and there’s a big difference between a hundred thousand dead and 4.5 million dead

      actually while I’m here:

      • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lead to a largely symmetrical death toll; the US wars in the middle east have been far more than 99% middle easterner deaths
      • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was preceded by decades of brinkmanship; the US invasion of the middle east was entirely unmotivated by brinkmanship as the militaries weren’t comparable and the countries didn’t share a border
      • Russia has set forth terms of ceasefire; the US never did and lied at every instance they pretended to
      • Russian sanctions against Ukraine are relatively minor because Ukraine has its economic needs met by the West; US sanctions in the middle east will lead to millions of additional deaths due to lack of building materials, medical supplies, food, and more

      I’m not a Russia stan, Putin can hang from a barbed wire noose, but I’m not going to tolerate Russia’s Ukraine invasion being used for purposes of whataboutism to defend the greater evil