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The
Good News Agency
UN report
sees green light for generic AIDS drug
In a direct challenge
to the world's pharmaceutical industry, the authors of a new UN report
call on developing countries to strengthen their national laws in order
to enable local production of cheaper, lifesaving AIDS drugs.
Such an option can
be pursued legitimately under compulsory licensing, a principle in international
commerce that permits countries to "use patents without permission
of the patent holder in return for a reasonable royalty on sale,"
says the Human Development Report 2001, released Tuesday by the UN Development
Programme.
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