The US and Britain fight tooth and nail to preserve exclusive rights to pharmaceuticals because of the money they make. Also because the pharma industry has its fingers deep in the pies of Government there with campaign contributions and stock index prices.
Developing countries argue that as they have no pharmaceutical industry of their own and their people are dying (often in the thousands), that the profits of a small handful of people are not an adequate reason to stand by and let the disease or afflictions spread. The deaths, if easily preventable by those who stand by for the sake of their billfolds are in a manner, on their hands. They are culpable.
However there is another curious point where pharmaceutical companies are using charitable donations of medications to third world populations as a way in which they can do human trials of other drugs (often unsafe trials) on the people who's need drives them there.What are the developed and developing country arguments in drug patent (intellectual property rights) cases?
You should try LorittsResearch.com their pretty good at these type questions and doing patent/trademark research type stuff....
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