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19 B.U. Int'l L.J. 273 (2001)
Can South Africa Fight Aids: Reconciling the South African Medicines and Related Substances Act with the Trips Agreement

handle is hein.journals/builj19 and id is 283 raw text is: CAN SOUTH AFRICA FIGHT AIDS? RECONCILING THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES ACT WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT I. INTRODUCTION ............................................ 274 II. ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES CONTROL AMENDmENT BILL ....... 276 A. The Purpose of the Bill ................................ 276 1. Compulsory Licensing ............................. 276 2. Parallel Imports ................................... 277 B. The Bill and its Effect on Patent Rights in South Africa ...................................... 278 C. The Current Status of the Bill ......................... 279 III. ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY CLAIMS ........................................ 280 A. The United States Policy ............................... 280 B. The Pharmaceutical Industry Claims ................... 282 1. Intellectual Property Arguments .................. 282 2. The Quality Argument ............................ 285 3. The Deny-Treatment Argument ................... 285 4. The Infrastructure Argument ...................... 286 5. The Underlying Arguments - The Pricing Disparity and Generic Competition ............... 287 IV. THE BILL AND iTS EXTRATERRITORIAL EFFcrs .......... 288 A. The TRIPS Agreement of the World Trade Organization Uruguay Round ......................... 288 1. National Emergency or Extreme Urgency ......... 289 2. Pharmaceuticals and TRIPS ....................... 290 3. Analysis of Adequate Remuneration under TR IPS ............................................ 291 B. Treaty Interpretation of TRIPS ........................ 291 1. The Text .......................................... 292 2. The Context ....................................... 292 3. The Object and Purpose .......................... 293 C. Additional Problems with the United States Treatment of South Africa's Bill under Norms of Customary International Law ..................................... 294 V. THE FORMER UNITED STATES POSITION ITSELF ULTIMATELY PROVES INCONSISTENT WITH TRIPS ......... 296 VI. RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................... 297 A. South Africa .......................................... 297