Gore Todl to Ease Up on Anti-South Africa Drugs War

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update
Wednesday, May 19, 1999
"Gore Told to Ease Up on Anti-South Africa Drugs War"
Africa News Service (05/18/99); Caelers, Di
     A number of international organizations, including Medicines Sans
Frontieres, Health Action International, and Global Trade Watch,
have come out in opposition to U.S. trade demands on South Africa
regarding its efforts to acquire less expensive medicines.  The
organizations support a petition urging Vice President Al Gore,
who is co-chairman of the U.S./South Africa Binational
Commission, to ease pressure on South Africa and other developing
nations stemming from how medicines are acquired.  According to
the petition, Vice President Gore is "aggressively seeking the
repeal of legislation in South Africa that would permit that
country to do what nations in Europe do--use parallel imports to
buy drugs at the best world price."  In addition, the petition
says the United States is pushing its aggressive stance to
protect drug companies despite the AIDS and HIV crisis that is
threatening sub-Saharan Africa.




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