allAfrica.com
20 April 2001
The South African government won a landmark legal battle, on Thursday, when 39 of the world's top pharmaceutical firms dropped their lawsuit, which sought to block the authorities in Pretoria from importing or producing cheaper versions of their patented brand-name drugs, including HIV/AIDS' medication. It took less than a minute for the drug companies' lawyer to withdraw the case and agree that ...
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