The agreement puts into question the fate of the healthcare especially in the developing countries. The major contested issue as regards to the health sector has been the 'Intellectual Property Rights'
Personally I appreciate the role played by organizations such as Medicins Sans Frontiers that have been bold enough to put a statement against such an agreement . Again looking at it from the other side I see something bright if at the potential will be well tapped.
For the people in the developing countries like my own Tanzania; we have almost all the ingredients needed to prosper in the Pharmaceutical industry sector. We can still come up with our own formulae hence skew away from the Intellectual Property Right legal battle. We understand more than 70% of modern medicines are from herbs and plants as a whole. It's about time we go back to the medicines that we were using and bring up the correct doses and see if we can make something of own.
Some of us have worked on the crude extract from these plants like Criterspermum Schweinfurthii; the results were amazing. If countries like China and others in the Asian continent have worked on that potential. I believe the current situation can end up being a blessing in disguise.
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