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...developing new treatments, the Treatment Action Group made common cause with AIDS activists in the industrialized countries on a two-pronged program - to press pharmaceutical corporations to slash their prices, and to press governments to allow developing countries to buy cheaper generic copies of patented AIDS drugs from India, Brazil and Thailand...
...court should put the commercial interests of pharmaceutical corporations above the fate of the more than 4 million South Africans infected with HIV. In the end, those corporations lost the will to stand between South Africa's infected community and access to the cheapest possible treatments - manufacturers in Brazil, India and Thailand, for example, are able to supply generic versions of the drugs at a fraction of the price charged by the Western pharmaceutical corporations that hold the patents...
...console themselves that - in the eyes of public opinion, at least - they did the right thing by withdrawing the South African case. But they clearly have cause for concern in the precedent they've established, particularly in light of the forthcoming case being brought by the U.S. against Brazil at the World Trade Organization. Brazil may be substantially wealthier than South Africa, but it, too, has millions of people living in poverty, and the supply of locally manufactured generic AIDS drugs has cut deaths from the disease by half over the past four years. The South Africa decision will raise...
...vulnerabilities are more apparent than ever: wildly uneven income distribution in Latin America; a dramatic financial crisis in Argentina; rising levels of crime and pollution; deterioration of such institutions as public education and health in many nations. No agreement is possible without a meeting of the minds between Brazil and the U.S., and that did not seem probable on the eve of the Quebec City summit. Even if that sea change came about, the process of negotiating the deal is one of the most challenging in modern history. In short, the odds on building a new trade framework before...
INTRODUCTION "It's my honor to welcome our friend from Brazil...