News:
AIDS conference assails US

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

U.S. policies and measures that run counter to the dissemination of inexpensive anti-HIV drugs were criticized in the international conference on AIDS held in Thailand on June 11-16.

The delegates assailed the bilateral agreements forged by the US to protect the interests of pharmaceutical firms in violation of an international agreement ratified by the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar in 2001. The agreement allows poor countries to disregard patents of pharmaceutical companies to enable them to gain access to cheaper medicines against AIDS and other diseases.

The Doha agreement, which has shattered the giant multinationals� tight grip on the production and sale of HIV medications, has helped reduce the cost of treating AIDS from over $10,000 (`550,000) annually to a dollar (`55) or less daily.

21 July 2004
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