[Pharm-policy] TAC gives government 2 weeks to provide license

James Love love@cptech.org
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:17:12 -0400


http://allafrica.com/stories/200010200316.html


Government Has Two Weeks Legalise Generic
AIDS Drug - TAC

WOZA Internet (Johannesburg)
October 20, 2000 

Marjolein Harvey
Johannesburg 

TAC spokesperson Jack Lewis told iClinic that the department of
health has been given a two-week deadline in which to give a
temporary license to distribute HIV/AIDS generic drug Biozole in SA,
of which the AIDS activists have imported 5 000 capsules in defiance
of patent laws.

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