[Pharm-policy] TAC criticized by SA MOH, MOH to accept donations, 2 on Kenya dispute over vacinne patents

[James Love]

http://www.timesofindia.com/201000/20afrc3.htm
Oct 20, 2000, Times of India
S. Africa condemns illegal import of cheap AIDS drugs 

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's health minister has criticized AIDS
activists here for illegally importing low-cost drugs to treat
AIDS-related infections.

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http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/0,3523,724113-6099-0,00.html
Business Day
October 20, 2000
Pat Sidley 
Govt seems ready to accept HIV/AIDS drug donations

GOVERNMENT is making longawaited moves to use crucial drugs to fight
HIV/AIDS. At the same time it has all but formally accepted offers of
free drugs from pharmaceutical firms.
 
   [snip]



http://allafrica.com/stories/200010190274.html
AIDS Patent Blow to Kenyans

The Nation (Nairobi)
October 19, 2000 

Nation Team
Nairobi 

Kenyan scientists researching an Aids vaccine have no right to patent it
because they did not design it, their British associates claimed
yesterday.

The statement, issued in the United Kingdom, set the stage for a tense
meeting this morning between the two sides over a British decision to
take out a patent on the DNA used in the vaccine, excluding the Kenyans.

   [snip]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_980000/980187.stm
Thursday, 19 October, 2000, 16:21 GMT 
Row over Aids vaccine

A row over patenting threatens to disrupt work on a vaccine for Aids. 

Scientists from Britain and Kenya have been working closely together for
five years on a vaccine for the disease. 

However, the Kenyan scientists, from Nairobi University, have complained
that their names were omitted from the patentapplication. 

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