Roger Bate: June 2005 Archives
Brazil's dangerous denial
When is a life-saving intervention somebody else's responsibility? From the example of Brazil, the answer seems to be: When it's expensive. Brazilian Health Minister Humberto Costa has declared that the price of a new anti-retroviral drug developed by Abbott Labora
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Putting Profits Before People
Last month the Kenyan government responded to pressure from its academics, AIDS activists and business leaders -- although, sadly, not the World Health Organisation -- and removed the 10% tariff on medicines coming into the country. This was welcome...
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This Is Getting Worse Than Darfur
As President Bush met five African leaders this week, one topic should have been at the forefront of the discussion -- Zimbabwe. Three of the leaders, from Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia, are from countries that directly border the despotic regime...
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When Bush Meets Blair
WASHINGTON -- Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, arrives in town this week to discuss the state of the world with President Bush. But it's someone not present in Washington that may determine the success of the meeting -- Blair's Finance...
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