CAFTA will harm HIV care, according to critics. Final agreement helps drug companies, they say.
Negotiations on the Central American Free Trade Agreement will result in more deaths from AIDS in the Central American nations participating in the agreement, charge several organizations that work to provide health care to poor populations. The reason is that the United States pushed for new intellectual property rules that will obstruct access to medicine by increasing medicine prices and delaying or blocking generic competition, they contend.
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