Moving like a silent army, AIDS invades Africa's youngest the fastest. Funerals for children go on here almost nonstop. Pharmaceutical companies say they can't afford it.
Patents pay for research.
Ignoring them, the drug companies charge, is to cheat the future. Wary of a public relations disaster, pharmaceutical companies have been selling Africans name-brand drugs at slightly discounted rates. But without the drugs, the parade of little white coffins will continue.