1.0 link 39618 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/racist-and-ignorant-react_b_39618.html This week in Geneva, the World Health Organization is discussing a report on the "Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases." This week in Thailand, the government issued a compulsory license on patents for clopidogrel bisulfate, a heart disease drug sold under the trade name "Plavix," as well as compulsory licenses on patents on the AIDS drug sold by Abbott under the name of Kaletra. The reaction in some quarters is that compulsory licenses for patents on AIDS drugs...

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