Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 24 No. 73 AIDS Drugs Cut to 'Guinea Pigs'

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	AIDS Drugs Cut to 'Guinea Pigs'
Author:	Lucy Johnston and Ruaridh Nicoll
Location:	Vol.24 No.73 (September 1997), pp388-389

The following Briefing and Comment are reprinted with permission from the Observer, 8 June 1997. Poor people in the third world are having AIDS treatment withdrawn after taking part in trials that have proved the success of a new 'wonder drugs' . Multinational drug companies - which conduct the trials and allow their patients to return to risk imminent death - have been condemned as 'unethical' by the World Health Organisation.

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