"You have to wait until the negotiation is complete," he said.AIDS activists had criticized the blocking of Aluvia because it does not require refrigeration like Kaletra, eliminating the need for costly cold storage in poor countries.But now they fear Thailand will bargain away its rights under World Trade Organization rules to issue a license allowing the manufacture of a patented
cheap jerseys drug without the consent of a foreign patent owner."Basically, Abbott is still holding patients hostage in an attempt to force the government to backtrack on the compulsory license," Paul Cawthorne of Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said.The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which runs clinics in developing countries, also chastised the offer, calling it "quid pro quo" and "blackmail."Abbott shares were down 48 cents, or about 0.8 percent, at $57.37 in afternoon trade on the New York Stock Exchange.A SMALL PROFITSuburban Chicago-based Abbott will continue to withhold six other drugs from Thailand to protest the use of the compulsory license.Spokeswoman Melissa Brotz said the company was making the move to assure patient access for the drugs, which brought Abbott $1.1 billion in sales in 2006.Abbott sells Aluvia or Kaletra
cheap authentic nfl jerseys to 69 very low income countries, including countries in Africa, for $500 per patient per year and makes no profit, Brotz said. The company generates a "small profit" for its sales to low-middle income countries like Thailand.Some AIDS activists had suggested Abbott was making the offers in advance of the company's annual investor meeting taking place this Friday. A group of institutional investors representing about 1 million of Abbott's 1.5 billion shares outstanding has protested the company's policies in Thailand.In 2003, Abbott hiked the price of another AIDS drug called Norvir by 400 percent, sparking protests, including at its annual meeting.The post-coup Thai government shocked pharmaceutical giants last November when it decided to override the patent on Efavirenz, an HIV-AIDS treatment made by Merck & Co..Since then, the drug firms have tried to persuade Bangkok to back down in return for cheaper prices.In February, Merck cut the price of Efavirenz by 46 percent for countries hard hit
http://www.westphalstaffing.com/whats_new/nfl.php by HIV-AIDS, including Thailand where 580,000 people are living with the disease.French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has also offered better
cheap nfl jerseys wholesale access to its heart disease medicine Plavix after Thailand announced a compulsory license, the first by a developing country for such a drug.The details of these offers have not been disclosed, but Medicins Sans Frontieres' Cawthorne said Thai negotiators should be careful."Brazil has taken these kinds of offers and they found themselves paying prices way above other countries because they are locked into these contracts with the companies," he said..
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