Alliance Programme for
Health, Peace and Social Justice

1. Health Is A Human Right

Health is a human right. Every person has the right to life, freedom from bodily harm and optimum health.

Exploding health costs and rising ancillary wage costs are the most important reasons for mass unemployment and economic stagnation. From this it is clear that fundamental restructuring of the health system is the precondition for solving modern social problems, in particular for tackling mass unemployment. To remedy this problem it is essential to undertake a careful analysis of the existing deficiencies of today’s health systems.

1.1. The pharmaceutical industry’s “business with disease”

While the most important domains of society are subject to public control, the realm decisive for every community – that of health - is withdrawn from this control. Largely unnoticed by the public, and in a creeping process that has continued for decades, an investment industry has appropriated a worldwide monopoly on health and illness, and made the earth’s people literally dependent on it. This is the pharmaceutical industry.

This branch of industry is commercially underpinned by the continuation and spread of diseases as billion-dollar markets for patented, synthetic pharmaceutical drugs. Usually treating symptoms alone, these drugs are almost invariably associated with severe side effects. Prevention and eradication of disease, above all through effective natural remedies, is endangering the survival of the pharmaceutical “business with disease”, which is therefore fighting such remedies with all the means at its disposal.

Through its “business with disease” the pharmaceutical industry has become one of the world’s biggest speculative investment industries. Via its billion-dollar profits this industry has gradually made almost every country in the world dependent on it, purchasing itself influence in key areas of society such as the media, social welfare and politics.

Millions of people have paid with their lives for the failure to prevent this appropriation of the health sector by the pharmaceutical industry, and the world’s countries have sacrificed their economies to it and are now faced with the threat of financial ruin. The most significant political and social development at the beginning of the 21 st century is, arguably, the unmasking of the pharmaceutical “business with disease” as the biggest and bloodiest fraud in human history. Disseminating awareness of this throughout the world is a condition for making health a human right.

1. 2. Fundamental restructuring of health systems is needed

The most important measures involved in this restructuring are:

1. Public control of health systems. Health systems must be brought under public control immediately and irrevocably. Only by ending the investment “business with disease” will it be possible to eradicate today’s endemic diseases, saving millions of human lives and relieving public and private economies on a long-term and enduring basis.

Public control of the health system is the precondition for ending the business with disease, for eradicating endemic diseases and for saving billions. This fundamental restructuring of the health service is therefore a vital precondition for solving all other social problems, above all mass unemployment.

1.3. Programme for eradicating endemic diseases

Public control of the health system is an important precondition for eradicating TB, malaria, AIDS, heart attacks, stroke, disbetes and cancer as endemic diseases. Only when the financial imperative to make money from the perpetuation of diseases falls away, can consistent efforts be made to eradicate them. If this does not happen, every programme to eradicate endemic diseases will be opposed by those interest groups, in particular the pharmaceutical industry, which stand to make billions from the perpetuation of diseases.

The scientific basis for eradicating diseases

Open any textbook on biology and biochemistry and you will read about the importance of vitamins and other micronutrients for the prevention of illnesses. The fact that the vital health significance of these micronutrients has never become public knowledge and has not been used for effective prevention of endemic diseases throughout the world, is due to a clearly discernible cause. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry targeted medical universities, medical training courses, the mass media and politics, purchasing influence in all these domains. Knowledge about micronutrients and their importance to health was kept out of medical textbooks, and even fiercely opposed in the interests of the billion-dollar business with patentable pharmaceutical drugs.

This intentional withholding of vital information on vitamins and other micronutrients is unacceptable and must cease immediately for the sake of millions of people. Hundreds of thousands of people pay with their lives each year for this intentional disinformation in regard to people’s basic physical functions. No delay can be allowed in remedying this situation.

We regard it as our task to actively break down this ‘wall of ignorance’ for the sake of the health of millions of people. We will not rest until this wall of ignorance – like the Berlin wall before it – has been brought down. The free flow of information and the realisation in medical practice of basic biological knowledge will smooth the way for today’s endemic diseases to be largely unknown in future generations. We regard this ‘health emancipation’ in the interests of millions of people as the prime focus of our work.

The end of AIDS, heart attacks, cancer and other endemic diseases is in sight

We are a worldwide movement whose goal is to reduce today’s endemic diseases, including AIDS, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, to a fraction of their current extent.

This health programme requires collaboration from everyone, and has the following specific goals: during the next 15 years, up to the year 2020, we will do all in our power to reduce the following endemic diseases to below ten percent of their current extent: heart attack, stroke, cardiac insufficiency, high blood pressure, heart arrhythmia, circulatory disorders in diabetes, various types of cancer, osteoporosis, immune deficiency diseases including AIDS, and others.

No patenting of foods, health and life

Patents are the key tools of the pharmaceutical business with disease. Patent fees, artificially fixed at a high level by pharmaceutical groups, have made the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable speculative business in world trade. And for the same reason patent fees are the chief reason for health costs that can barely be funded any longer.

Health is not a commodity for speculative commerce. That is why we will work at an international level to abolish patents on health products of all kinds, thus invalidating the key tool used in the unscrupulous business with disease.

Abolition of the patent principle as applied to health, life and food is an international task of top priority. The multinational character of this patenting business requires an equally international approach to ending it, based on a worldwide education campaign. Wherever people understand the devastating consequences for their own health of the ‘patenting of life’, they will work with us to attain these goals.

Education and the development of a new health system

Medical and scientific preconditions for extensive control of the major endemic diseases already exist. What is missing is a health policy programme to implement them. With the support of affected patients and the population, and with the collaboration of those in the healing and nursing professions, we will implement national health programmes. These programmes have the following emphases:

With the aid of training measures, this programme will be supported in all areas of education and adult education. The goal is to radically improve the population’s knowledge of the function of the human body, and measures necessary for preventing illnesses. Health care and medical knowledge about the human body’s basic functions is no longer a privilege of the few but will become a universal and inalienable human right.

1.4. Overcoming opposition from the representatives of an outmoded medicine

In this programme to eradicate endemic diseases, our longer-term aim is to save millions of human lives. Application of this medical knowledge to relieve suffering and avoid the premature death of millions of people is, as stated above, an international task in which populations can fully participate through training measures. Resistance to implementation of this programme can be expected from the pharmaceutical industry and its representatives in certain media, and amongst certain government medical officers.

Such resistance and opposition, irrespective of the grounds, endangers human life and is thus unlawful. We will hold all those to account who impede the eradication of endemic diseases and thus the saving of human life. For this purpose we have submitted a suit to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which will be expanded in each new instance to include individuals or organisations against whom action is brought.

This action before the International Criminal Court does not address mere trifles but crimes against humanity. In a similar way, after the second world war, the Nuremberg trials charged and sentenced the directors of pharmaceutical groups (IG Farben) and also doctors who took part in corresponding research projects, with crimes against humanity. Knowingly combating and impeding the new possibility of eradicating endemic diseases is an equally grave crime and must be punished accordingly. In the interests of millions of patients we will do all in our power to advance these criminal proceedings as swiftly as possible, and to hold to account those who share responsibility for the premature death of millions of people.

Cornerstones of a new health system

The goals of a new health system can be summarised as follows:

The fundamental restructuring of health systems is a prime focus of our programme, and for good reason. Only when the unscrupulous pharmaceutical ‘business with disease’ is ended, can illnesses be overcome. Only by these means can private and public expenditure, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars per annum, be saved, and only then can great social problems be remedied in the long term.

The ending of the ‘business with disease’ is such a fundamental precondition for solving these social challenges of our time that every political programme which does not address these palpable root causes will inevitably fail.

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