{"id":47033,"date":"2016-04-19T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/47033\/on-this-day-in-history-pharmaceutical-companies-drop-a-lawsuit-against-sa\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:11:54","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-pharmaceutical-companies-drop-a-lawsuit-against-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/04\/19\/on-this-day-in-history-pharmaceutical-companies-drop-a-lawsuit-against-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: Pharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, \u00a0Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America together with 39 international pharmaceutical companies brought a lawsuit against the South African government.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was for patent infringement regarding the manufacture of generic versions of life saving anti-AIDS drugs.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has one of the world&#8217;s highest rates of HIV and AIDS and these companies demanded millions of dollars for the right to manufacture their drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-42-16081389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103985\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/Corbis-42-16081389.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting for treatment at HIV clinic\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 19 April 2001, these charges against\u00a0South Africa and other third world countries were dropped, which enabled them to produce generic versions of their patented drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the pharmaceutical companies did not stop there, some donated their drugs and others sold their drugs at cost price, following the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/VwEmFSXeA8Y' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\" target=\"_blank\">SA History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 April 2001, pharmaceutical companies dropped a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":47034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[1146,4205,4206,4207,2799],"class_list":["post-47033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-anc","tag-anti-retroviral-drugs","tag-hivaids","tag-pharmaceutical-research-and-manufacturers-of-america","tag-south-africa"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["anc","anti-retroviral drugs","HIV\/Aids","Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}