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Deal for Cheap Drugs Stalls
World | November 30, 2002, Saturday // 00:00
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Talks to reach an international agreement to ensure developing countries can access essential medicines to treat people with the HIV/Aids virus and other serious conditions have broken down. The talks, aimed at relaxing the rules on pharmaceutical patents, ended without agreement at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva on Friday. The principle of allowing developing countries access to cheap versions of drugs still protected by copyright had been agreed at WTO talks a year ago. But delegates from African countries at the talks said they were unhappy because the terms now being discussed are more narrow. The WTO has until the end of the month to secure a deal. Developing countries are demanding access to drugs to treat people with HIV or Aids as well as malaria, tuberculosis and other serious conditions.
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