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Article

25 Jan 2007

Author:
Nopporn Wong-Anan, Scientific American

Thailand stuns drug firms with generic licenses

Thailand's army-installed government has issued licenses for cheap generic versions of a heart disease and an AIDS drug...Drug companies reacted angrily to the announcement…and urged [the health minister] to reconsider a decision they said could lead to many firms leaving the country…[The health minister] declined to confirm newspaper reports [that] they were Abbott Laboratories' Kaletra, and Plavix… sold by Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb. [also mentions Merck]