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Brazil Closer to Breaking Merck AIDS Drug Patent

April 30, 2007

Brazil took the first step toward breaking an AIDS drug patent held by Merck & Co. on Wednesday when the Health Ministry decreed the drug was in the "public interest" and too expensive to buy.
Scientific American