Croatia’s teachers, nurses strike against budget cuts

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia’s teachers and nurses staged a one-day strike on Thursday, the first major protest against austerity measures in the country that will join the European Union next year, while Fitch affirmed Croatia’s rating but downgraded its outlook. Unions said more than 70,000 out of some 100,000 people working in schools, universities and hospitals joined the strike over reduced bonuses and wage cuts announced for 2013. …

J&J says won’t enforce AIDS drug patent in Africa

LONDON (Reuters) – Generic manufacturers are to be given a free rein to make cheap copies of Johnson & Johnson’s HIV/AIDS drug Prezista for sale in Africa and other poor countries. U.S. healthcare group J&J said on Thursday it would not enforce patents, provided generic firms made high-quality versions of the drug – known generically as darunavir – for sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries. Prezista is a relatively new drug used when patients develop resistance to older antiretrovirals. …

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