medicines from western pharmaceutical companies. In early 2007, Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health launched a new campaign in the compulsory license debate by announcing a compulsory licence for Plavix, a hypertension drug. Thailand also threatened to issue additional compulsory licenses for expensive western medicines such as Lipitor, Pfizer’s most important drug in terms of global revenue. For Pfizer, and the pharmaceutical industry at large, Thailand’s decision was the realization of their greatest…
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