[Pharm-policy] Kaiser on negotiations on Africa Trade Bill

[James Love]

>From the Kaiser Daily Summary for today.

#1   COMPULSORY LICENSING:  ACTION ON AFRICA TRADE BILL EXPECTED
     NEXT WEEK
     A final attempt to hash out differences between the House
and Senate versions of the Africa-Caribbean Basin Initiative
trade bill "could get underway next week," CongressDaily reports.
At the same time, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) has
indicated that "negotiations need to bear fruit soon or they will
be abandoned as the congressional agenda becomes crowded with
other items."  Congressional aides said a "deal is in sight," but
textile and apparel matters still "loom large" and HIV/AIDS
provisions "also need to be settled."  Lott, House Ways and Means
Chair Bill Archer (R-Texas) and other key negotiators will meet
next week (CongressDaily, 3/30).  The Senate version of the
Africa Trade Bill includes Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.)
compulsory licensing agreement, which would guarantee access to
inexpensive generic AIDS drugs for African nations (Kaiser Daily
Report, 11/19).


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