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Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com)
(04/17/03) P. 14; Yee, Chen May
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) formed a marketing
agreement with Cuba's Finlay Institute to market Finlay's meningitis B vaccine,
and clinical trials of the vaccine are currently underway in Europe and Latin
America, with trials planned for the United States as well. Cuba hopes the deal
will not only raise the institute's profits but also form one of the first
bridges between the communist country and the capitalist world. Although Cuba's
pharmaceutical industry, which dealt with an embargo by making its own generic
drugs, received 24 patents from the United States, it is banned from selling its
drugs there.
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