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...Africa, for example, less than one percent of the 4.1 million HIV positive individuals currently in need of treatment actually receive it. Most of the other 99 percent simply cannot afford the drugs. But universities like Harvard can help to keep drug prices down in developing countries, if they adopt the right policies...
...friendly working relationships with the drug companies, will not always put the health of individuals in developing countries before pharmaceutical interests. Precise language is needed to ensure that Harvard and other universities will consistently make the ethical choice. Drug companies will likely resist, but if universities act together to adopt new licensing conditions, they will have little choice but to play along. Harvard, being Harvard, should be a leader in this effort, setting the example for other universities to follow...
Until universities begin to adopt more exacting policies, activists like those at Yale will be playing a perpetual game of catch-up. Every new d4T will mean yet another battle, another struggle for access. This is not a sustainable solution. At the University of Minnesota, for example, students are currently struggling to get their school to drop developing-country patents on Abacavir, another critical AIDS drug. We need to nip these problems in the bud. Universities like Harvard should adopt policies that ensure that their health-related discoveries truly benefit the global public welfare...
...students of the world’ are with the revolution,” López observes, and a student-led campaign for human rights in Cuba would shatter these illusions. To that end, Carro suggests creating “a program whereby students would adopt a prisoner. Maybe not one student; maybe an organization at a school.” She notes that various Amnesty International groups have “adopted” prisoners; among other things, they send them messages, call their relatives and provide financial assistance. Carro calls such initiatives “human sparks...
...sept. 15]: bin Laden's al-Qaeda network remains a global terrorist threat. The challenge for the modern democracy is to protect individual liberties and, at the same time, act decisively against terrorists without turning into a militarized police state. We need to form a worldwide coalition of democracies, adopt national and international legislation that strengthens law-enforcing agencies and fight against terrorism with global coordination. Amit Pradhan Baroda, India...