BBC (Saturday): Brazil issues Aids drug threat

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Saturday September 6 08:56 GMT (1:56 am PDT)

Brazil issues Aids drug threat
By Corinne Podger
BBC correspondent

The Brazilian government has warned three major drug companies that they must dramatically lower the price of anti-Aids drugs - or it will break their patents and allow cheap copies of the drugs to be imported.
The government took its first official step towards allowing generic drugs to be imported by passing a decree changing drug regulations on Friday.
More than 500,000 Brazilians are HIV-positive or have Aids.
Since 1997, the government has offered free anti-Aids drugs to anyone who needs them - at a cost to the country over $100m a year.

This is how to fight greedy multinational corporations operating in a dysfunctional market under rules written for a "free" market.
Just do it.

[lcordero]

1. It's about time

Somebody is actually showing some backbone

[Laughing Mirror]

2. Brava Costa!

Brava Brasil!

[Narraback]

3. New member of Axis of Evil will ...

soon be announced! Don't MESS for drug profits! After Iraq * will head to Brazil.

Just a hunch.