The multi-national pharmaceutical companies are trying to prevent developing countries India from producin own. cheaper, and Hi drugs. Western governments seem reluctant to challenge this -seeming to expect higher echical standards from drug companies, wishfully thinking that consideration for the wel being of all human beings will temper their drive for profit. But why shouk this be so? Whatever its motives. SmithKline Beecham, for example, is correct to say that tackling HIV cakes more than drugs, cheap or not.
People with HIV need clean water, good housing employmens, freedom from war and starvation if the drugs are to work for them.
Ensuring we are - all -healthy is not amenable to the ceutical companies who exist to make money for the few. • no point is that poore neaten should not be left in private And, after four years of promising. it is time that our wit governone traly pro Africa duced its HIV Strategy and made clear its own contribu-