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Article: Accord ends feud over AIDS blood test. (US government and Pasteur Institute of Paris agreement on profits made on AIDS blood test) (Brief Article)
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- July 16, 1994
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In an attempt to quench the fiery debate over the distribution of profits from the AIDS blood test, the U.S. government this week reached a historic agreement with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. The new accord will give the French a better deal on royalties garnered from the worldwide sales of such tests, which are used to determine whether someone has been infected with HIV, the AIDS virus.
"The agreement aims to equalize the amount of royalties each country will receive from the worldwide sale of test kits," says National Institutes of Health (NH) Director Harold Varmus. The pact represents the first official NIH acknowledgement that U.S. scientists, led by ...