Articles by Carol Adelman
Suboptimal Solutions
In a letter to President Bush, U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. urged the administration to buy generic drugs for treating AIDS patients around the world, on the false assumption that doing so would mean the...
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When Cheap Is Costly
In combating the global AIDS epidemic, the high price of drugs has often been blamed for the staggering number of victims in developing nations. Activists urge the US to buy "cheap, generic" drugs for its overseas assistance programs. In...
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Cheap Tricks
Decisions made by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the U.S. government on how to treat AIDS in the Third World will soon have life-or-death consequences for the forty-two million people infected with the virus worldwide. The scientific and industrial...
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Aid and Comfort
At the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg next week, the U.S. will again be pilloried for being stingy on foreign aid. U.S. government aid as a percentage of GNP does indeed rank last. Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands,...
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