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Last-minute deal on cheap drugs The Guardian An eleventh-hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world's poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last night in an effort to save next month's trade summit in Cancun, Mexico, from collapse. After being delayed for nine months by intense lobbying from US pharmaceutical companies, the agreement between key developing countries and Washington is meant to open the door for poor countries to import copies of life-saving drugs without running foul of global patent laws.
—Posted: August 28, 2003
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