Pressure Mounts Over Medicines Regime

Published March 18, 2009

A generic drug company plans to halt the production and shipment of cheap life-saving HIV/AIDS pills to Africa unless changes are made to Canada's Access to Medicines Regime.

This has prompted concerns from Rwanda, which is the only country to receive medication under the regime, and comes amidst demands the government not turn its back on Africa as a whole.

Canadian generic pharmaceutical...

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