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Patents or Poverty? A New Debate Over Poor AIDS Care in Africa

Date: November 5, 2001

Author: Donald G. McNeil Jr.

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QUOTE: A new debate has erupted over the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, about whether it is patents or poverty that is primarily responsible for the widespread lack of treatment....only 22 percent of the 795 patents theoretically available across Africa have been awarded...

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Key People:

• Dr. Amir Attaran
• Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Lee Gillespie-White

Key Organizations:

• American Medical Association (AMA)
• Center for International Development (CID)
• International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)
• New York Times Company
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Health & Medicine
  • Diseases (specific)
  • Health Care Business
    • Pharmaceutical / Drug / Biotech

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Law / Common Law
    • Intellectual Property (conceptual)
      • Patents / Inventions

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Economics: General
    • Income Distribution/Poverty
    • World Trade
      • Third World Development

• Africa
• Worldwide

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