Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa Case Solution

Through a mix of instruction, prevention, and cutting edge medications, AIDS was brought under control in the developed countries of the West. Approximately a quarter of a hundred million people in the continent of Africa were infected with the disorder. Millions had expired. Almost all of the medications that treated AIDS were developed--at great expense--by the major western pharmaceutical companies.
These medications were frequently hard to administer and expensive to make. They required amounts of arrangements and income of distribution that frequently were lacking in the developing world. Activist groups were demanding the pharmaceutical companies react to the AIDS outbreak with extreme measures, left the patent rights that had protected their intellectual property or giving their drugs away for free. The pharmaceutical companies needed to react to their critics.

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PUBLICATION DATE: June 13, 2002

 

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