Brazil gets 40% cut on AIDS drugs

[christian11 at mindspring.com]

>More important, I think, is that Brazil has a strong moral case and 
ACT-UP doesn't. Brazil is a poor country with lots of sick people who 
have no chance of finding anyone to pay first-world prices for drugs. 
The U.S. AIDS-afflicted population lives in the richest country in 
the world.

That the US is the richest country in the world is beside the point since the US isn't buying AIDS treatments for sick people. The costs for AIDS treatments--especially "the cocktail"--are prohibitive for most in the US, at about $1000 a month, depending on the stage of illness, insurance etc. That conditions are far worse in Brazil doesn't mean that PWA's in the US (or anywhere else) haven't a moral case.

Christian