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Article

18 Mar 2009

Author:
Fred Mwasa, Embassy [Canada]

Pressure mounts over medicines regime [Canada]

A generic drug company plans to halt the production and shipment of cheap life-saving HIV/AIDS pills to Africa unless changes are made to Canada's Access to Medicines Regime. Canadian generic pharmaceutical company Apotex became the first company to take advantage of the Access to Medicines regime…The generic medicines regime is one of only a few in existence in the world and is based on an agreement hammered out by the WTO in 2003… Apotex and others said the government needed to change the law to make it easier for developing countries and the company to take advantage of the legislation.