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Bangkok Post - July 15, 2004
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul
Other countries joining the Brazil-led deal are China, Russia, Nigeria and Ukraine.
Brazil had received a US$1 million Ford Foundation fund to initiate a plan with those countries to improve access to drugs and condoms as well as a prevention plan for Aids.
The first-round meeting of the countries will be in Russia in October in a bid to set up a cooperation framework on care and treatment promotion, technical transfers, and seek measures and funds to push forward a plan, Pakdee Pothisiri, deputy permanent secretary for public health, said yesterday.
Mr Pakdee, however, said that six countries were not enough to carry out the plan and it was necessary to seek more member nations, such as India, to strengthen the network and help negotiate with developed countries in exercising compulsory licensing to produce generic medicines, including anti-Aids drugs, for people in those countries. He believed a decision to make a deal would not affect the government's plan to negotiate a free trade agreement with the US.
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