The Other Drug War: Pharmaceutical Companies and WTO Sue Brazil and South Africa to Protectprices and Patents

The world’s giant pharmaceutical companies hold the patents to medicines that would save or prolong of lives ofmillions of people in the developing world if those people there could afford them. In the last few years, developingnations have implemented two strategies to get drugs to those who need them and break the drug companies’ monopoly.Countries can either manufacture their own cheap drugs to override patents, which is what Brazil is doing, or, likeSouth Africa, they can import a drug from wherever it was sold cheapest.


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