Intellectual Property and Infectious Disease Treatment in Developing Nations

Comparing international IP for South Africa and AIDS with present-day tuberculosis

In the US, AIDS was thought of as a gay disease, but it also spread rapidly through blood bank negligence , users of injected drugs, and heterosexual sex. I highly recommend And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts for an account of US AIDS, but the focus of this piece is on AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.