Word: genericism
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...many of us suffering occasional aches and pains, reaching for the Tylenol has become almost a reflex. The best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever and its generic copycats are staples in American medicine cabinets. The active ingredient in Tylenol is acetaminophen, a versatile molecule that can cool a fever, soothe a teething baby and dull the sharp joint pains of osteoarthritis...
...media conference call yesterday, Sachs predicted that all companies producing effective HIV drugs would eventually provide them to poor African countries at production cost, even though 30 drug companies recently sued the South African government over its attempts to legalize generic copies of HIV drugs...
Just last month, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) announced that it would not seek to stop generic companies in Africa from producing copies of an anti-retroviral drug licensed to BMS by Yale University...
Kasper also pointed to generic drug companies as crucial in the fight. "The fact that the multinationals are suing is a problem," he said. "Unless competition is sustained, things will go back to the way they were before. No solution can be based solely on the multinationals doing the right thing. We need generic companies to be there, and developing countries want them there. They don't want to rely on the whims of multinationals, whose bottom line is the bottom line...
...agreement reflects the increasing politicization of the battle over AIDS drugs. Health ministers from countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, including India, Indonesia and Iran, on Tuesday also backed South Africa's legal battle against 39 pharmaceutical companies over the right to sidestep patents by importing generic drugs to fight the AIDS crisis. Challenging AIDS drug patents is fast emerging as the defining issue of a new Third World solidarity, although this time it's directed at improving their leverage in the world capitalist system rather than overthrowing...