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Article

30 Mar 2005

Author:
Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters

Guatemalan HIV patients slam new trade rules

Dozens of Guatemalan HIV patients, many with paper bags over their heads to protect their identities, protested on Wednesday at new U.S.-backed trade rules they say rob them of access to medicines...Pharmaceutical companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb, which makes an HIV medicine protected in Guatemala under the new rules, say the changes are needed to protect innovation.