SEPTEMBER 1999 · VOLUME 20 · NUMBER 9
AIDS Drugs for Africa:
Grassroots Pressure Overcomes U.S.-Industry: "Full Court Press" to
Block South Africa's Affordable Medicine Program
Robert Weissman
Pills, Prevention and Profits:
The Case of Tamoxifen
Amy Allina and Cindy Pearson
The Ties That Bind:
Industry Sponsorship of Patient Groups
Lisa Hayes
Cover photo: Protest in Washington, D.C. demanding the
U.S. government cease pressuring poor countries to abandon affordable
drug policies and calling on the government to license patent rights for
medicines to the World Health Organization.
© Daniel Frank
BEHIND THE LINES
EDITORIAL:
Moving Gently on East Timor
THE FRONT:
Too Big to Debar?
Kathie Lee Goes on Defense?
THE LAWRENCE SUMMERS AWARD
INTERVIEW:
The Politics of Drug Safety
An interview with Dr. Sidney Wolfe
BOOK NOTES:
Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact
of
Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor
by John Madeley
Reclaiming America
by Randy Shaw
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