Fwd: GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS

[Doug Henwood]

>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:30:03 -0400
>From: James Love <love at cptech.org>
>To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES
><info-policy-notes at essential.org>
>Subject: GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS
>
>Shivan Mehta has put together a web page
>on the GDP per person living with HIV/AIDS
>in several countries, here:
>
>  http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/sa/aidsgdp1.html
>
>A few countries show the problems in access to
>HIV/AIDS drugs:
>
>
>Using 1997 data:
>
>Country           $ GDP per person
>                    living with HIV/AIDS
>
>  Group 1
>
>Japan             $ 616,210,735
>UK                $  51,459,520
>France            $  12,659,100
>USA               $   9,553,702
>
>
>  Group 2
>
>Thailand          $     197,319
>India             $      93,065
>South Africa      $      44,515
>Botswana          $      26,684
>Uganda            $       7,077
>Zambia            $       5,019
>Mozambique        $       2,294
>
>
>It comes as no suprise that countries in Group 1 have
>generally been hostile to compulsory licensing of HIV/AIDS
>drugs, while countries in group 2 have generally been
>supportive.
>
>    Jamie
>
>--
>James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
>I can be reached at love at cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
>by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org
>