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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=twnet@po.jaring.my
href="mailto:twnet@po.jaring.my">Third World Network</A> </DIV>
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lang=EN-GB>Thailand stands up to Abbott<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>When <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region></st1:place> went ahead with a compulsory
license on Kaletra, an AIDS drug, despite threats from Abbott the maker of the
drug, the latter hit back by withdrawing the registration of a new heat stable
form of Kaletra and six other drugs. The likely outcome will be more deaths of
innocent patients.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 14.4pt"><B><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>A full article describing the situation is available
from </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black">TWN at address above.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">"Standing Up To Abbott's Decision to Withhold
Registration and Marketing of<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Life-Saving Medicines - A New Variant of
Pharmaceutical Apartheid"<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">By Brook K. Baker, Health GAP, 13 March
2007<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Abbott is now doing what drug companies have
long threatened to do when developing countries use lawful flexibilities to
access more affordable generic medicines - it is threatening to take its marbles
and go home. Unfortunately, however, Abbott is not playing marbles, it is
playing a deadly game of Pharmaceutical Apartheid, where drug companies withhold
access to affordable life-saving medicines in a perverse effort to preserve
intellectual property rights at all costs.....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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