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Brazil to Share AIDS Drugs

July 10, 2002

In a new challenge to the pharmaceutical industry, the Brazilian government has offered to share its generic AIDS drugs and the technology used to produce them with some of the world's poorest countries. By threatening to break patents if pharmaceutical companies did not manufacture the drugs locally, Brazil last year forced big cuts in prices and profit margins for producers. Under the new plan, government laboratories would donate generic drugs and pass on their know-how to programs in third world countries too impoverished to afford the drugs on the commercial market.

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Adapted from:
New York Times
07.09.02

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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