International Development Under-Secretary of State, Mike Foster, backs UNITAID Patent Pool and urges pharma companies to join

 

Fantastic news, Mike Foster, International Development Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for United Kingdom, is backing the UNITAID HIV medicines patent pool and urging pharma companies to join.

This is really great news for UK campaigning on the patent pool.

• See the original article in the Guardian guardian article link The Guardian  dated Sunday, 12 July 2009.

• For more info on the HIV medicines patent pool and the campaign in the UK being led by Stop AIDS campaign, see the  Stop Aids Campaign.

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