AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Legal order allows challenge to AIDS drug pricing in South African to go forward

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, April 8th, 2005

A landmark South African legal complaint against British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) over its AIDS drug pricing and policies in that country will proceed following an order by South Africa's Competition Tribunal that will allow the complaint to go forward.

GSK has sought outright dismissal of the case; however, the Competition Tribunal issued an order giving the complainants, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and several South African AIDS advocates, 10 days to present further evidence and arguments regarding the damages they claim to have sustained as a result of what they claim are GSK's illegal drug pricing and policies. The order also states that the parties...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2005-04-08)

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