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South Africa Urges Change to AIDS Drug Deal

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

October 30, 2001

South Africa urged delegates to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday to make AIDS drugs cheaper for the developing world and said that the drug industry is putting patents before lives. South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told a group preparing a drug policy statement for the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar, in November that trade ministers should change the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (known as TRIPS) to allow countries to gain better access to affordable medicines.


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10.29.01; Reuters

  
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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
 
 

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