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Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 5, 2002 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
91 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Talks to reach an international agreement to ensure developing countries can access essential medicines to treat people with the HIV/Aids virus and other serious conditions have broken down. The talks, aimed at relaxing the rules on pharmaceutical patents, ended without agreement at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva last Friday.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/11849 [5]

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