Pharmaceutical autonomy : technology, alliances and norms -- Elements of global pharmaceutical power -- The Brazilian context : contradictions between democracy and neoliberalism -- Asserting antiretroviral autonomy (1992-2002) -- Patent power and the limits of treatment activism autonomy (2003-2006) -- Consolidating the pharmaceutical alliance (2007-2013)
Summary
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic interests, both at home and abroad, to roll-out and sustain treatment represents an intellectual puzzle. In this book, Matthew Flynn traces the numerous challenges Brazil faced in its efforts to provide essential medicines to all of its citizens. Using dependency theory, state theory, and moral u
