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...poorest African nations, where annual per capita health care budgets are less than $10, even cheap generics aren't cheap enough. This month Mali closed a deal to buy drugs from four Western firms at a 90% discount; but the government said it can treat just 600 of the country's 130,000 AIDS patients. What more can be done...
...profits) in a situation where they may keep life-saving drugs out of the hands of millions of desperately ill people? This politics of shame worked well, too, on the pharmaceutical corporations, for whom defending their patents in the face of a mounting AIDS crisis on the world's poorest continent became a public relations nightmare. Soon, the biggest of them were making agreements, brokered by the United Nations, to supply drugs at discounts of up to 95 percent, and in some cases even to waive their patents and allow poor countries to import generic drugs...
...Above all, there is the daunting challenge of the hemisphere's diversity, which brings together at the summit leaders from some of the world's poorest and smallest nations, as well as some of the most populous and richest, including the global superpower, in a search for common political, social and economic ground. They represent a potential clash of every conceivable kind of interest (except one, since nondemocratic Cuba is excluded), made more acute by the economic uncertainty. And as a carefully stage-managed event designed to cement pan-American solidarity, the Quebec City summit, like its predecessors in Miami...
...refuse to pay their taxes and get a free-ride on the rest of society. Furthermore, we decry the IRS’s practice—to some extent mandated by a Republican Congress—of focusing what little resources for enforcement they do have on the poorest in our society rather than those bilking the government out of billions in lost tax revenue. Congress may not yet have passed a tax cut for the rich, but it has let the wealthy take one for themselves...
...flying a flag that contains symbols of the Confederacy. But unlike in South Carolina, which eventually stopped flying the flag over the statehouse amid threats of economic sanction, Mississippi isn't expected to suffer much more financial hardship over the decision than it already does as the Union's poorest state. Still, supporters were disappointed...