Weblog on the Internet and public policy, journalism, virtual community, and more from David Brake, a Canadian academic, consultant and journalist
12 February 2001
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South Africa takes on drug giants (#3 on the page linked) Oxfam is pushing the WTO to change patent rules to allow poor countries to clone anti-AIDS drugs cheaply. According to the Guardian, the basic palliative drugs have a “list price” of $10-15,000 a year while Thailand believes it could reduce this to $200 a year with cloned drugs. This to me is one of the most important and most straightforward ethical issues around…

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