I'm shocked that none of you have seen the real problem here. It was right there at the end of the article - this is a small percentage of the market we're talk

I'm shocked that none of you have seen the real problem here. It was right there at the end of the article - this is a small percentage of the market we're talking about here, 1% in Africa, similarly small numbers in the rest of the third world. What does that tell us? It tells us that the only reason big pharma even bothers to fight for their patent is because they are legally forced to do so; if some idiot in the US can make a case that they're not defending their market, they might have it taken away. They don't care about poor people healing themselves; they care about relatively rich people in the US buying generic drugs because they're cheaper, even though US society can afford to pay for it. Drug companies aren't monsters, they're corporations - machines for making money, pure and simple. They're just doing what's required of them. Change the patent laws - and the diplomatic pressures of the US State Department - to allow third-world companies to sell generic drugs to people in third-world countries, and not people in first-world countries, and bam! Problem solved.