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Because the United States likes to do that, you know. One of the provisions in the GATT agreement is that countries have the right to make compulsory licenses for making medicine, to address a public health crisis. And the South-African government proposed to do this for medicine against AIDS. Now, South-Africa has a very bad problem with AIDS; the figures I've heard was that a quarter of the adult population is infected. And of course, most of them can't afford to buy these medicines at the prices charged by the US companies.