1. AIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access to Essential Medicines
- Author:
- Tom Barry, Robert Weissman, and Martha Honey
- Publication Date:
- 08-1999
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Foreign Policy In Focus
- Abstract:
- Africa and the developing world are facing an HIV/AIDS crisis equated by the U.S. surgeon general to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century. Combinations of available pharmaceuticals-too expensive for nearly all of the infected people in the developing world-could enable many afflicted with HIV/AIDS to live relatively normal lives. Compulsory licensing and parallel importing policies could help developing country governments make essential medicines more affordable to their citizens.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Science and Technology, and Third World
- Political Geography:
- Africa, United States, and Europe