--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:47 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > >> > >>> Good news. Now the question is going to be, will the > >>> company that developed this drug make it available > >>> at a reasonable cost to the millions in Africa and > >>> other places around the world who are dying of AIDS? => >> > >> I haven't heard a follow-up to this, but an Indian Industrial > >> Pharmacist IIRC learned the process for the current > >> antiretrovirus "cocktail" and was going to give it to African > >> governments gratis. > >> They would have been able to produce doses dirt cheap--dollars a > >> month--and the Africans refused. > > > > There is certainly more 'meat' to this story. *Why* > > would they refuse? For example, were they threatened > > with a cessation of or reduction of US aid if they > > went for it? > > > > That has certainly happened in the past, with the > > US threatening to cancel aid to a country if it > > allowed free abortions or dispensing of birth > > control products. > > IIRC it had to do with conspiracy theories the African officials had > about why we *really* wanted to give these drugs to them. For > example one African president did not believe that HIV caused AIDS !
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