US AIDS Foundation Applauds Brazil for Defeating Abbott on AIDS Drug

US-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the American largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, ...

NGO’s File Suit to Force Brazil to Break AIDS Drug Patent

Brazil’s Ministry of Health estimates that 600,000 Brazilians are carriers of the HIV virus. ...

Abbott Blinks First and Brazil Gets Its AIDS-Drug Discount

Some 23,000 people in Brazil use the AIDS drug, Kaletra, made by the Abbott ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Hints Patent Breaking for AIDS Drugs Can Be Averted

Brazil’s Minister of Health, Saraiva Felipe, says he expects to conclude negotiations in a ...

AIDS drug Kaletra from Abbott

In Showdown with Brazil Over AIDS Drug Patent, Abbott Blinks First

On June 24, Brazil issued an ultimatum to the Illinois-based pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories ...

Abbott and Brazil Reach Agreement. No Patent Will Be Broken.

Abbott announced today that it achieved its goals in negotiating an agreement with the ...

Is Brazil Patent Breaking Bad? There’s No Agreement.

Although many AIDS advocates are praising Brazil for its announcement that it will break ...

Brazil Breaks Abbott’s Patent and Will Make AIDS Drug for Half the Price

The Brazilian government filed a request to break the patent of the drug, Kaletra, ...