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Something along the lines of a smaller version of (2) happened some years back in South Africa, since they've got a higher rate of HIV than any other country. I
by archangel_one 15y ago
Something along the lines of a smaller version of (2) happened some years back in South Africa, since they've got a higher rate of HIV than any other country. IIRC, they were ignoring patents and manufacturing various medicines locally instead.
Token citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_South_Africa#2001 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_South_Africa#2001
- Haraldson 15y agoYeah, good to know. These countries are probably too big even for big drug corps to take on. Do you know anything about the quality of the locally manufactured drugs you mentioned, by the way?