Tag: Saharan Africa

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

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

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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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UN’s Ban cites gains in fighting world poverty

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The world has been able to meet some of the U.N. goals of reducing poverty and raising living standards in developing nations, though some regions like sub-Saharan Africa are not reaping many benefits, the U.N. chief said on Thursday. There has been “broad progress” in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters. The goals are targets adopted by world leaders at the United Nations in 2000 to slash poverty, hunger and disease in poor countries by 2015. …

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