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...early 1990s, Yale researchers discovered a compound, d4T, that slows the progression of HIV. Yale licensed an exclusive patent for the drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, which then marketed it under the brand name Zerit...
...December 2000, the humanitarian-aid group Doctors Without Borders sought to distribute a generic version of Zerit in AIDS-ravaged South Africa. Bristol-Myers Squibb balked at the request...
Yale, too, citing the terms of its negotiations with the pharmaceutical firm, would not budge. The university said the following March that it had done everything in its power to let Bristol-Myers make Zerit more accessible to South Africans...
...went [to Bristol-Myers] and said, ‘Look you’re hardly selling any of these drugs in Africa because you’re charging ten dollars for a daily dosage, and the cost of production is way less. So why not cut the price to marginal cost?’” Levin told the Yale publication...
...When Aardman made Chicken Run, its first film sponsored by DreamWorks, Park and Lord talked about the visits Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks' animation chief, made to Bristol. Katzenberg would make his points, at an American force and volume, then Park and Lord would nod politely and continue doing what they wanted. Katzenberg basically bought the right to be ignored graciously...