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Article: Int'l Pharmaceutical Companies Urged to Lower Anti-AIDS Drugs

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April 15, 2001
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela Sunday took international pharmaceutical companies to task for refusing to provide cheaper anti-AIDS drugs to developing countries.

It is wrong that international pharmaceutical companies are exploiting countries like South Africa in the developing world, Mandela said in an interview with the South African Broadcasting Corporation's Newsmaker Program.

Mandela vowed to continue to try to persuade international pharmaceutical companies to make HIV/AIDS drugs cheaper and available to developing ...

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