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Experts criticise AIDS drug bill changes

    JOHANNESBURG

    Changes made to an HIV/AIDS drug bill, meant to speed up delivery of low-cost drugs to developing countries, have been criticised by experts.

    Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin recently promised to make good on efforts by his predecessor, Jean Chretien, to get anti-AIDS drugs to countries that could otherwise not afford them.

    However, according to AIDS NGOs, changes to the proposed legislation did not go far enough.

    Gauri Sreenivasan, trade policy officer at the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, was quoted by the Canadian Press, as saying: "The bill is better with these amendments, but it's not satisfactory."

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