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GSK has a track record—not of the good kind—the very, very bad kind

GSK has a track record—not of the good kind—the very, very bad kind

Check out the 'controversies'

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Check this out, GSK ‘controversies’

I happened across these GSK ‘controversies’ on Wiki. Not a big fan of Wiki, but there is no denying the references and facts. These are some extracts:

Philanthropy and social responsibility

Since 2010, GlaxoSmithKline has several times ranked first among pharmaceutical companies on the Global Access to Medicines Index, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2014, the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT-rights advocacy group gave GSK a score of 100 per cent in its Corporate Equality Index.

GSK has been active, with the World Health Organization (WHO), in the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF). Around 120 million people globally are believed to be infected with lymphatic filariasis. In 2012, the company endorsed the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases; it agreed to donate 400 million albendazole tablets to the WHO each year to fight soil-transmitted helminthiasis and to provide 600 million albendazole …

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