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UK Poll Shows Strong Support for Dual Pricing.


On October 8 the British charity Voluntary Service Overseas released a survey showing that 87% of people who responded thought it was right for people with HIV in poor countries to pay less for the medicines than people in the UK, according to The Guardian, UK, October 8.

We do not know of a similar U.S. poll, but almost certainly a large majority here would agree.

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Title Annotation:charging people with HIV in poorer countries less for anti HIV agents
Author:James, John S.
Publication:AIDS Treatment News
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Oct 19, 2001
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