Panafrican News Agency - December 11, 2001
The movement's head, Halidou Ouedraogo, made the call Monday in his address to delegates attending the 12th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually-transmitted Diseases in Africa (ICASA).
In his paper titled "Human rights and access to care", Ouedraogo asked African leaders and researchers to exploit some of the clauses adopted during the recent meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Doha, Qatar, so as to manufacture cheaper generic antiretrovirals.
"Africa must take advantage of the legal instruments of the Doha Conference to promote a curative strategy in favour of AIDS patients in Africa," he suggested.
Ouedraogo, a lawyer by training, also pleaded for binding legal arrangements to ban the exclusion, discrimination and quarantine of people living with HIV.
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