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Canada aims to set example in exporting AIDS drugs to developing world Yahoo! News Canada has sought to be an example to other industrialized nations by altering its legislation to allow for generic AIDS drugs to be exported to developing nations. Over the past few days, Industry Minister Allan Rock and International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew stressed that Canada has worked tirelessly to amend its patent laws. Canada hopes to become the first country in the Group of Seven to make major laboratories operating within its borders — both Canadian companies and multinational firms — share their formulas with the manufacturers of generic AIDS drugs for export to developing countries, which are hardest hit by the pandemic.
—Posted: October 4, 2003
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