
HIV/AIDS afflicts 33 million and takes 8,000 lives a day. India, Brazil,...-sustaining drugs to countries that can't afford to manufacture their own. The CAMR regime was designed to let Canadian generic drug makers ...

Lula da Silva has authorised the country to break the patent on an AIDS drug made by Merck & Company Incorporated, and import a generic version from India instead. It is the first time Brazil has bypassed a patent...

with AIDS are dependent on India's cheap, generic drugs. Between 2003-2008, "the number of Indian firms supplying ARVs rose from four to ten; while..., but only on a process to make it, which helped its drug firms ...

of the Genome," there still is no cure for AIDS, but it is now highly treatable and it has become a chronic, manageable condition. That first drug, AZT, now a generic, remains in one of many combinations in use...

authorised the country to bypass the patent on an Aids drug manufactured by Merck, a US pharmaceutical giant.

the AIDS drug program of its concerns about drug quality. The Ranbaxy warning comes amid mounting concern about the safety and effectiveness of ... that investigation. The FDA said enough other generic companies ...

that have stymied needy countries and the Canadian company that's trying to supply them with a generic AIDS drug. Yet Industry Minister Tony Clement has already turned thumbs down on them. The legislative changes...

as generic companies. The Indian Patent Office recently rejected applications related to two key AIDS medicines

patents on Aids drugs to be "pooled". Unitaid, which works to improve access to medicines in developing countries and set it up, argued long and hard that the pool was necessary. It would allow generic manufacturers...

One of the world's largest drug companies says it will allow the manufacturers of generic drugs to produce versions of all its medicines for treating HIV and AIDS. Glaxo Smith Kline has already issued a license to a...