The HIV/AIDS pandemic has reached a crescendo in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA or Saharan region). This disease threatens to exterminate the human race in the Saharan region. The situation is further exacerbated by high prices of brand-name antiretroviral medicines due to the prevailing international patent regime. And, attempts to promote the manufacture and import of generic versions of antiretr…
This article critiques the subject of patent protection of drugs in the tight of the threat posed by HIV IAIDS in sub·Saharan Africa. It contends that the basis for sustaining the prevailing international patent system in developing countries is a "myth": one of deception. This "myth" is validated by highlighting the dysfunctions associated with the prevailing international patent sy…