Notas del editor

1. lifestyle drugs (e.g., drugs for hair growth or male impotence)
2. African sales represent under 2 percent of the total—because the people are simply too poor to buy expensive drugs; and they spend little on the diseases that most affect developing countries.
3. 2001 anthrax scare, the U.S. government threatened to force the drug company Bayer to allow others to produce Cipro, the antibiotic most effective against anthrax at that time.For instance, Brazil’s state-run drug company, Farmanguinhos, estimates that in can produce the AIDS medicine Kaletra for a fraction of what Abbott charges in the United States. With more than 600,000 HIV-positive patients in the country, at one time, it was estimated that a generic Kaletra would save Brazil some $55 million off even the highly discounted price at which Abbott was then selling the drug to Brazil.
4. The prize fund concept has been championed by James Love and the Consumer Project on Technology. Congressman Bernard Sanders introduced HR 417, the Medical Innovation Prize Act of 2005, to implement the idea.)