Brazil provides these medications for free and can only do so because the country's public laboratories manufacture generic versions of these medications. The price of the patented versions of these drugs would have made their use in Brazil's program unfeasible. The markets in North America, Europe and Japan are so large that they can buffer any loss of sales in Brazil for the patented versions of anti-AIDS drugs and the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry would not be affected in any way.
Unusual solutions are necessary in times of crisis.
By providing generic anti-AIDS drugs to its citizens, the government of Brazil has given them the gift of life.