I think this is what I remember reading (or perhaps a first draft that turned into this): https://www.wired.com/2004/02/stop-making-pills-political-prisoners/ h

I think this is what I remember reading (or perhaps a first draft that turned into this): https://www.wired.com/2004/02/stop-making-pills-political-prisoners/ https://www.wired.com/2004/02/stop-making-pills-political-pr... . It was written before those drugs actually were made available to poorer countries for low cost for humanitarian reasons.