AFRO-NETS> RFI: What is TRIPS and what role does it play in global trade?

[Christian.Labadie.CLabadie@t-online.de]

RFI: What is TRIPS and what role does it play in global trade?
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I have received this private question from an AFRO-NETS' reader who 
heard the acronym TRIPS (alias ADPIC in French) in a lecture on ARV 
(antiretrovirals). Does someone want to answer?

Christian Labadie, M.S.
mailto:CLabadie@t-online.de

PS: 
Current answers to the survey "Equal Opportunity Research on HIV/AIDS 
for Poor Countries" read as follows: all 26 persons who answered fa-
vour that HIV research on blood collected in Botswana takes place di-
rectly at the University of Botswana (as opposed to an overseas com-
petence centre), and estimate to US$ 5.38 Million an HIV/AIDS re-
search fund necessary for scientists in Botswana. To cast your an-
swers (anonymously) the form is available at:
http://citation.thread.free.fr/survey/africanhivresearch.php3

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