Beschreibung:
Through an in-depth case study of Brazil's successful experience in providing its citizens universal and free access to AIDS medicines, Matthew Flynn identifies the tremendous technological and political obstacles the country faced and the successful strategies Brazilians employed to guarantee access to high-priced medicines.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Access to AIDS Medicines, Public Health, and the Brazilian Solution 1. Pharmaceutical Autonomy: Technology, Alliances and Norms 2. Elements of Global Pharmaceutical Power 3. The Brazilian Context: Contradictions between Democracy and Neoliberalism 4. Asserting Antiretroviral Autonomy (1992-2002) 5. Patent Power and the Limits of Treatment Activism Autonomy (2003-2006) 6. Consolidating the Pharmaceutical Alliance (2007-2013) Conclusion