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...bridging the gap

LAST UPDATE: Wednesday, 1 July, 1998 03:17 GMT        V O X   P O P U L I                                   ...all the news, as it happens

 

"How can we get treatments into resource-poor settings?"

 

"How can we talk about AIDS drugs when 70% of our rural populations have no access to piped water?"
– Central African Republic

"We should tie the prices to the GNP of each country that way they'd be affordable and it would be equitable.
– Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"Activists need to leave the drug companies alone and focus on the governments of the countries, because I'm sure the companies would be happy to put their drugs in there if the governments would create the facility for it."
– Brisbane, Australia

"It's better to get the treatments to the organisations that are community-based, because the drugs are more likely to reach the community than if they're sent to major hospitals. Because so many are suffering from the disease, you find that people smuggle the drugs out, and then they cost a lot more than the ordinary person can afford."
– Kampala, Uganda

"We're a very small market research company, and we support a...health charity in Tanzania. If we can do it, [drug companies] can too."
– London, England

 


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