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...latest numbers on the cost of that war are breathtaking. The UNDP estimates that the per capita cost of annual treatment for infected Africans is likely to be $1,100. That includes $600 for antiretroviral drugs and an additional $500 in other medical costs. The $600 drug figure won't be reduced much, even if, as is hoped, drug companies forfeit their patents on these medications. Though that would save precious dollars on royalties, the cost of producing the drugs will remain high. It's like Nestle giving away the recipe for Toll House chocolate-chip cookies: someone still...
...UNDP believes those nations should be permitted to evaluate GM technology independently of Western political tensions. "There may well be food risks inherent in GM crops, but they are as yet unproven," says Mark Malloch Brown, administrator of the UNDP. "But those speculative risks have to take second place to the fact that hundreds of millions of people go to bed hungry every night. We?re not advocating the suspension of responsible public policy; just the opposite, in fact. We?re saying we cannot turn our back on prolonged malnutrition and hunger...
...Would you say the UNDP report makes a value judgment about GM crops...
...Those payments definitely are not gifts," Pagett said. "They are contractswhich are supported by organizations such as theWorld Bank and UNDP [United Nation's DevelopmentProgram]. As a matter of fact the countriesthemselves have paid very little money...