World health chief says TPP trade deal raises concerns
GENEVA (Reuters) - The
Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal negotiated between 12 Pacific
rim countries, raises serious concerns about the affordability of
healthcare and medicines, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan
said on Thursday.
"I’m following the discussion and debate and there are some very
serious concerns about the trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest trade
agreement ever," she told a conference in Geneva.
"If these agreements open trade yet close the door to
affordable medicines we have to ask the question: is this really
progress at all?"
(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by John Stonestreet)
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