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UK Mulls Tax Breaks to Attack Third World Disease

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

February 23, 2001

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that Britain's next monthly budget review will consider a proposal of tax changes that increase developing countries' access to life-saving drugs, such as those for malaria and tuberculosis. Included in the plan will be a research and development tax credit toward new drugs that otherwise would not find a market niche and the possible creation of a tax-free status for drugs and vaccines donated to poor nations. Although Brown remains optimistic, the tax concessions are conditionally reliant on the drug industry's willingness to cooperate.


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Adapted from:
Reuters (www.reuters.com)
02/23/01

  
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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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