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Introducing the latest policy analysis from Foreign Policy In Focus

Curing AIDS Policy of Greed and Dogma
By Yifat Susskind

After another three million AIDS deaths this year around the world, the
Bush administration is still prioritizing pharmaceutical industry
profits over people's access to medicine. Patents that allow drug
companies based in the United States and Europe to control the
manufacture and sale of AIDS medicines prevent countries in Asia,
Africa, and Latin America from providing people with cheaper, generic
AIDS drugs (even though 95% of AIDS patients are in those countries).

Everything we know about combating the AIDS pandemic points to the need
for a synthesis of prevention and treatment strategies within a human
rights framework. It's not Bono's or Oprah's job to develop and enact
those strategies. Safeguarding public health and upholding human rights
are the responsibility of government. Rather than a fundamentalist
fantasy of stamping out sex, AIDS prevention strategies should be
grounded in what we know works: education and access to condoms within
a framework that promotes women's and girls' rights to negotiate sex
and make the best choices for their well-being.

FPIF contributor Yifat Susskind is communications director of MADRE, an
international women's human rights organization. She is the author of a
book on US foreign policy and women's human rights and a report on US
culpability for violence against women in Iraq, both forthcoming.

See new FPIF article online at:
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3748

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