Rich countries 'blocking cheap drugs'
14th Nov 2006, 08:06 GMT
Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, a report says on Tuesday. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration -- a groundbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs -- was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.
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