Four years after AIDS drugs bill passed, first low-cost meds may head to Rwanda
- Four years after it was passed unanimously by Parliament, a bill allowing low-cost AIDS drugs to be exported to Africa may finally produce results.
Generic drug maker Apotex Inc. says it has been awarded a contract by the government of Rwanda to sell its three-in-one AIDS pill to that country, the final hurdle in the onerous process of making Canada's Access to Medicines Regime work.
A company spokesperson says the first drugs should start being shipped in the fall, as long as none of the companies that hold the patents on the drugs withdraw their permission in the interval. Read more
Barack Obama has called President Bush's comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."
AFP - Leaders from Latin America and the European Union gathered in Peru Friday for a summit aimed at tackling poverty and climate change, but which was bogged down by differences over trade.
Reuters - Zimbabwe said on Friday it would hold a
delayed presidential election run-off on June 27, when the
opposition hopes to oust veteran leader Robert Mugabe after
nearly three decades in power.
