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Article: Al Gore bullies South Africa on U.S.-made AIDS drugs.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- April 26, 1999
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South Africa and the rest of Africa is experiencing an HIV/AIDS catastrophe, which the U.S. Surgeon General has likened to the plague that decimated Europe in the 14th century.
South Africa reasonably wants to take steps to lower the extraordinary prices of essential medicines to treat HIV/AIDS and other diseases. (''Drug cocktails'' to treat HIV/AIDS can cost $12,000 a year per patient in Africa.)
Vice President Gore thinks this is a bad idea. As chairman of the United States/South Africa Binational Commission, Gore has engaged in an astonishing array of bullying tactics to prevent South Africa from implementing policies, legal under international trade ...