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24 September 2008

Apotex ships drug under Doha licence

Eklavya Gupte, London

Canadian generic drugs company Apotex yesterday shipped its own combination of three patented drugs to Rwanda, in the first export of a drug produced under a compulsory licence following the Doha Declaration

But the shipment comes four years after Canada launched its Access to Medicines Regime, and the reaction has been far from positive.

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