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Thai AIDS activists urge more generic drugs
Thai AIDS activists are to meet with the government to urge it not to limit a program to produce low-cost copycat drugs that has angered Western firms, a campaigner said… A post-coup military government in 2006 issued so-called compulsory licenses, suspending patent protections for expensive cutting-edge treatments for AIDS, cancer and heart disease and allowing cheap, generic versions into the market. But campaigners say they have obtained a letter from the commerce ministry to public health officials urging them not to license any more generic drugs because the issue is holding up free trade talks with the U.S…