Review of African Political Economy
Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 24 No. 73
Comment: AIDS, Africans and the Side-effects of Poverty
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Abstract of Briefing
Title:Comment: AIDS, Africans and the Side-effects of Poverty
Location:Vol.24 No.73 (September 1997), p389
 There is a global market in sickness as in everything else. As we report today, drug companies have used Africans as guinea pigs for the new cocktails of AIDS drugs whose success at inhibiting the virus is being proclaimed in the West as a public health triumph. The advantages of testing drugs in Africa, with its lax medical standards and desperate patients are obvious.

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