When GlaxoSmithKline announced a series of initiatives to improve access to drugs in least-developed countries, its most radical proposal was for a “patent pool” to generate research into neglected diseases. Meanwhile, Unitaid was designing its own pool, focused on AIDS research. In Nairobi Xan Rice looks at progress on the two pools and GSK’s other proposals
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Amid preparations for Sudan’s controversial election last month, Xan Rice met a Sudanese man from Sydney who was looking well beyond election day
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China’s decision to resist binding emissions targets at Copenhagen gives a glimpse of a country with big and sometimes conflicting plans for growth, trade and influence, writes Peter Browne
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GlaxoSmithKline created waves last year with a promise of cheaper drugs and patent waivers in developing countries. In this special report Qudsiya Karrim in Johannesburg looks at what the pledge means in practice
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For World AIDS Day 2009, Dennis Altman surveys the key international issues in prevention and treatment
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Five Melbourne men arrested this week were alleged to have links with the radical Somali organisation, al-Shabaab. Peter Browne looks at how international involvement in Somalia in recent years has helped fuel the growth of militancy
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The less glorious traditions of the ANC have been on vivid display during South Africa’s election campaign, writes Nic Dawes
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The election campaign showed how we don’t seem able to have a rational debate about population, writes Peter Mares
The sudden rise to influence of the independent MPs is a challenge to the two-party system and how it’s reported, writes Peter Browne