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Article

31 Mar 2002

Author:
Antony Barnett, Observer [UK]

Bushmen victory over drug firms [South Africa]

They have faced extinction and poverty for hundreds of years, but now the San Bushmen of southern Africa stand to make millions of pounds from a so-called miracle slimming pill being developed by Western drug companies...'It's a lesson to corporations that they can't come in and patent traditional knowledge on plants from local communities and get away with it.' [refers to Pfizer]