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Negotiate With Drug Companies, WHO Chief Says
February 13, 2007
Developing nations should try to negotiate with drug companies before overriding patents to make copycat medicines, the head of the World Health Organisation said.
Margaret Chan said The Thai government was fully within its rights under world trade rules to issue compulsory licences allowing it to buy or make generic versions of two HIV/AIDS drugs and a heart disease medicine.
But in a letter to Thai Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla made available to Reuters on Tuesday, Chan said: "I firmly believe that the pharmaceutical industry - generic manufacturers and R&D companies - are part of the solution."
© Reuters Foundation 2002
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 13 February 2007
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