Aids is a huge problem in Africa (where I live) and it will be more economical in the long run to subsidise those drugs than to lose the proportions of staff that are infected. We're talking about 25% of the population currently infected.(pensions, med insurance etc)
I'm from South Africa and there is a lawsuit going on at the moment between pharmaceutical companies and the government with regards to supplying generic anti-retrovirals to the infected population. Let's just say that the government can purchase the drugs from Thailand for a mere 10% of what Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers supply to us.
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Date: 2001-03-07 08:00 pm (UTC)I'm from South Africa and there is a lawsuit going on at the moment between pharmaceutical companies and the government with regards to supplying generic anti-retrovirals to the infected population. Let's just say that the government can purchase the drugs from Thailand for a mere 10% of what Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers supply to us.