HIV/AIDS
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India: Protests in Delhi as EU defends Big Pharma
3 March 201142PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Romania: “AIDS generation” accuses state
24 January 2011PresseuropAdevărul -
HIV/AIDS: Everything's coming up roses
1 December 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
Prevention: EU redoubles efforts to fight AIDS
27 October 2009PresseuropLa Stampa -
Swine flu: Big pharma's small-mindedness
5 August 200938 The Independent London -
Romania: Bucharest opens HIV academy
29 June 2009PresseuropRomânia libera -
Health: Patently cruel
19 June 200914 De Volkskrant Amsterdam
As swine flu goes global, the developing world is gearing up to produce cheaper generic versions of Tamiflu. Roche, the makers of the drug, however, is resisting a move that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. According to Johann Hari in the Independent, it is receiving backing from the unlikeliest of quarters - the World Health Organisation. 
European customs often seize medicines bound for developing countries on the basis of suspected violation of patent rights. Humanitarian organisations denounce this practice which, they argue, benefits pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the world's poor.