Pfizer Upsets AHF Again

This is not the first time that the AHF has attacked Pfizer...

Pfizer is in trouble again! This time it is for its campaign over Valentines Day in the United Kingdom that used the slogan ‘Roses and Red and Viagra Is Blue’. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said that this was yet another example of Pfizer irresponsibly advertising its erectile dysfunction medication that was encouraging people to have unsafe sex and thus exacerbate the spread of both AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. They argue that the way that Viagra is being promoted is not in line with its policy of a serious drug for a serious impotence problem but it is turning the drug into a fin recreational drug that promotes unsafe and irresponsible sexual activity.

This is not the first time that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has attacked Pfizer for its advertising which it says is increasingly being aimed at younger men who don’t really have sexual function problems but who just want to be able to use illegal drugs and drink alcohol and then perform in bed too. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has even petitioned the Food and Drug Administration of the United States and warned them that if Pfizer were to consider an Over The Counter Version of their famous impotence drug then the number of people getting AIDS would rocket. The AHF is the biggest provider of free AIDS treatment all over the world and is furious with Pfizer and has gone as far as to ban Pfizer reps from appearing or selling any of their drugs at AHF clinics.

The pharmacy chain Boots that tried to sell Viagra without prescription over the Valentine period has been heavily criticised by both the press and by health professionals. At Ukmedix News we sincerely believe that Viagra should be used and sold responsibly and that a doctor prescription should always be part of the selling process.