{"id":1290,"date":"2003-11-01T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/11\/01\/\/"},"modified":"2003-11-01T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T21:02:24","slug":"1290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/1290\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maketradefair.com\/spage\/english\/action22.asp?subcat=2&amp;cat=1&amp;select=1&amp;special=yes\" rel=\"external\">SAY NO TO THE FAIR TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/no-to-the-FTAA.jpg\" alt=\"Say no to the FTAA\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>The FTAA will undermine poor people&#8217;s access to affordable medicines and put back the fight against poverty by years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US and other rich countries promised to ensure that global trade rules on patents should not limit poor peoples access to medicines. But now the US is breaking its promise \u2013 putting pressure on poor countries to adopt ultra-strict patent rules during discussions aimed at creating a giant free trade zone \u2013 the FTAA. Higher drug prices in this free trade zone, which covers 34 countries across North and South America and the Caribbean, will push the price of medicines even further beyond the reach of millions of poor people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maketradefair.com\/spage\/english\/action22.asp?subcat=2&amp;cat=1&amp;select=1&amp;special=yes\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Add your name to the FTAA Petition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAY NO TO THE FAIR TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICASThe FTAA will undermine poor people&#8217;s access to affordable medicines and put back the fight against poverty by years. The US and other rich countries promised to ensure that global trade rules on patents should not limit poor peoples access to medicines. But now the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}