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  • Pharmaceutical Companies, Intellectual Property, and the Global Aids Epidemic

    Pharmaceutical Companies, Intellectual Property, and the Global Aids Epidemic

    IBUS 3312 - International Management Pharmaceutical Companies, Intellectual Property, and the Global AIDS Epidemic Analysis While this case is literally full of negative aspects, we will only focus on the main points for both arguments. Pharmaceutical companies want to be sure that the products they spend years and millions of dollars to create are not easily reproduced and sold at discount prices. The profits pharmaceuticals make of their patented products are supposed to refinance new

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Pharmaceutical Industry and the Aids Crisis

    Pharmaceutical Industry and the Aids Crisis

    1. Executive Summary The pharmaceutical industry is characterised as a highly risky and lengthy R&D process, intense competition for intellectual property, stringent government regulation and powerful purchaser pressures (Batiz-Lazo & Holland, 2004). These characteristics have impacted on the willingness of the pharmaceutical companies to cater to the emerging markets and the involvement of ethical issues. This paper looks at the nature of supplying drugs to emerging markets and suggestions included the following: a. Enforcement in

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    Submitted: May 14, 2011 By: kidtos
  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (aids)

    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (aids)

    AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, better known as AIDS, is caused by the incurable HIV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immune system. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 that occurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIV virus enters the white blood cells and takes over the reproductive system of that cell and uses the system to reproduce itself. The white blood

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    Essay Length: 378 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2009 By: Artur
  • Immunology of Aids

    Immunology of Aids

    Although HIV was first identified in 1983, studies of previously stored blood samples indicate that the virus entered the U.S. population sometime in the late 1970s. Worldwide, an estimated 27.9 million people had become HIV-infected through mid-1996, and 7.7 million had developed AIDS, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). AIDS is a disease of the immune system, and is caused by Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV). HIV targets and infects T-helper cells and macrophages.

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    Essay Length: 3,864 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Bloodline: Aids and Family

    Bloodline: Aids and Family

    Bloodline: AIDS and Family The art center’s display of Kristen Ashburn, a documentary photographer, brings many to thought. How does this affect me, society, and the future? The artistic value of every emotion captured in the man y photos of families in Africa. These pictures pour emotion into the many viewing students. No one can walk out of the art center without being touched deeply by the heartbreaking display. After leaving one must imagine, what

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    Essay Length: 761 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Victor
  • Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp

    Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp

    „Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp.“ Final Marketing Management -Dr. Steve Henson- Nihat Canak 03/28/2006 Index of contents 1 Executive Summary 1 2 Situation Analysis 2 2.1 Market Summary 2 2.1.1 Market Demographics 3 2.1.2 Market Needs 4 2.1.3 Market Trends and Growth 4 2.2 SWOT Analysis 5 2.2.1 Strengths 5 2.2.2 Weaknesses 6 2.2.3 Opportunities 6 2.2.4 Threats 6 2.3 Competition 7 2.4 Keys to Success 7 2.5 Critical Issues 8 3 Marketing Strategy 8 3.1

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    Essay Length: 410 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Kramer Pharmaceuticals Inc

    Kramer Pharmaceuticals Inc

    Facts: Kramer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was a major manufacturer of prescription drugs for the medical and dental professions. It had a sales force of over 500 detailers, whose primary responsibility was calling regularly on hospital personnel, doctors, and dentists to describe the product line and to persuade these medical personnel to use and prescribe Kramer drugs. After having worked at Kramer for 12 years, Bob Marsh, a detailer of the company, was fired for unsatisfactory performance,

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Janna
  • Aids - Not Just Someone Else's Problem Anymore

    Aids - Not Just Someone Else's Problem Anymore

    AIDS is a rapidly growing, and almost uncontrollable, problem in society today. AIDS starts out as a virus, HIV, and then turns into AIDS when one’s body can not fight the virus anymore. What started out as a small scare in the 1980’s has grown into a full blown epidemic that any sexually active person has the right to be scared of. AIDS did not seem like a very big issue at first, but

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Rite Aid Corporation

    Rite Aid Corporation

    Rite Aid Corporation which ranks as the third largest retail drugstore chain in the United states, control about 2,380 drugstores in 28 states across professionals pharmacy service, a full selection of health and personal care products, an assortment of general products in the nation and in the District of Columbia ( Rite Aid, 2007 ). Rite Aid has a great management team to help them with their success their team includes Chairman, President and Chief

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    Essay Length: 1,129 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: regina
  • Aids in Africa

    Aids in Africa

    The AIDS epidemic has reached disastrous proportions on the continent of Africa. Over the past two decades, two thirds of the more than 16 million people in the world infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, live in sub-Saharan Africa. It is now home to the largest number of people infected, with 70 percent of the world's HIV infected population. The problem of this ongoing human tragedy is that Africa is also the

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Congress Must Aid in Funding for Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Prison

    Congress Must Aid in Funding for Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Prison

    In August 2005, John Hyde went on a shooting spree in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When the shooting ceased, he had killed a total of five people; including a state transportation worker, two teenage motorcyclists, and two Albuquerque police officers. When arrested, the 48-year-old was found to have suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder for fifteen years. During this time he was in and out of prison, mainly for misdemeanors. Hyde’s mother blamed the New Mexico

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Aids in the Third World Country

    Aids in the Third World Country

    In 2004 circa 95 thousand people died in Latin America. Cause of death? In a world of today where there is an abundance of bloodshed and carnage, surprisingly violence is not the primary cause of death but AIDS is. Having taken health classes for over five years, HIV/AIDS and STDЎЇs were not new or surprising. I became apathetic and impassive to such related issues. It seemed like something distant and remote that would never happen

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Aids Research

    Aids Research

    This study used content analysis to identify dominant AIDS-HIV themes in the manifest news content of AP, Reuters, AFP, ITAR-TASS, and IPS. A systematic random sample of AIDS-HIV stories disseminated by the five wire services between May 1991 and May 1997 (both months included) was obtained. This decade was selected because several empirical studies of coverage in the 1980s have been conducted; however, few studies examine the 1990s. The decision to examine the print news

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Aids in the Usa

    Aids in the Usa

    Aids was first identified in the usa in 1981. Since than it has been steadily growing and by the end of 2004, there were estimated to be just over, 1 million people living with HIV and proximally 415,000 people living with aids in the usa. Aids is also thought to have killed over haft a million americans nearly ten times the number kille in the Vietnam war. And more become infacted everyday. The problem with

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Difficulties of Aids

    The Difficulties of Aids

    AIDS is a deadly disease that affects people world wide. AIDS is a disease that brings about many social consequences. Many of these consequences result in physical, emotional, and economic problems. AIDS compromises the immune system of the human body, making a person susceptible to many different illnesses and infections. Among these are: unexplained fatigue and weight loss, night sweats and flu-like feelings. These infirmities can interfere with a person’s daily physical tasks. For example,

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Hiv and Aids Research

    Hiv and Aids Research

    HIV and AIDS Research The origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a conspiracy by the government to a contaminated needle theory being blamed. So what is the truth? Just where did AIDS come from? The discovery of HIV, the Human

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Aids in Workplace

    Aids in Workplace

    Dealing with HIV/AIDS in a Workplace As a managers view on HIV/AIDS in a workplace I have understood that the largest national survey of AIDS policies and education programs in the workplace revealed that nearly half of American worksites have implemented HIV/AIDS workplace policies and one in six worksites offered their employees education programs that address HIV and AIDS. The results of the survey were released July 11, 1996, at the XI International Conference on

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Aids

    Aids

    AIDS - What's new ? By: Eric Quinley E-mail: cvcdoc@hotmail.com AIDS - What's new ? ------------------- Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions. We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine or total celibacy. But too few

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Jon
  • Critique on Aids in Africa

    Critique on Aids in Africa

    There is one method of pricing called non-linear pricing, among many others. In this, the area below the demand curve (Y axis is Price$ and X axis represents Quantity demanded) is the contribution (after subtracting costs or expenses). For a price-demand combination we get a certain contribution, while the area above this rectangle is the “passed up profit” to customers and the area right of it is “money left on table”. When these areas are

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Bred
  • Aids

    Aids

    The virus that is supposedly known to kill millions of people around the world called AIDS, is continuing to inhabit people's bodies each and every day. People look to blame the other person when getting the virus, but is there another source of why this disease is continuing to kill so many? Maybe the world needs to look at the fact that there is not enough education to inform people of how to prevent this

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Aids in South Africa

    Aids in South Africa

    Introduction: AIDS/HIV (auto-immunodeficiency syndrome) is quickly becoming the worst disease the world has ever seen, pulling in numbers of death tolls that exceed those of the bubonic plague. “By 2010 its death toll will be higher than that of the two world wars combined, and it will soon be worse than the total claimed by all wars put together,” (Hunter 7). HIV is the virus that causes AIDS; symptoms only become apparent after the virus

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Pharmaceuticals

    Pharmaceuticals

    in most pharmaceutical companies. For the threat of substitute products, it is still very low due to the patents protection but in case of the expired patents, it is medium. A pharmaceutical company has lots of way to fight back against generic drugs such as obtaining patents on component chemicals, manufacturing methods, product extension/formula modifications or improving drug-delivery methods. Rivalry among existing firms is medium. Each pharmaceutical company has to fight in order to take

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Aids

    Aids

    On Friday 18th November, 2005, I put all studies aside and made up my mind to relax. On this night in question, I decided to attend an AIDS lock-in. It was the first time I was attending of that nature so I had no idea of what to expect. I did not want to attend this event alone so I rallied two of my friends and cajoled them to come with me. The lock-in was

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Aids in Africa

    Aids in Africa

    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most deadly viruses in the world. No country in Africa has escaped the virus. Some have been effected more then others though. The spread of AIDS in Africa is because of poor medical treatment and a lack of education on the part of the people. HIV is the virus which causes AIDS. (Aids in Africa, 1994) HIV stands for Human Immune-deficiency Virus. The virus attacks the

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    Essay Length: 1,509 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Hiv/aids: Africa’s Big Problem

    Hiv/aids: Africa’s Big Problem

    Abstract Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been reported in cases throughout the world. This paper describes what AIDS is by definition, a lists ways the virus is transmitted. In addition to general information given about AIDS, this paper addresses the problem of AIDS, what is being done to control the virus, how it applies to supply and demand, and the effect of AIDS on the United States and Africa. What is HIV/AIDS and what

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: July

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