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...particular drug company has been a significant player in Botswana: Merck. The U.S. firm created some of the first ARVs capable of treating HIV and AIDS (Crixivan and Stocrin), but has in the past been criticized for its methods of distributing them. In 2004, MSF singled out Merck for reneging on commitments to release the medicines at a cost of less than $1 per person per day. Merck was hurt by such accusations. (According to the firm's website, its founder, George W. Merck, once said: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people...
...those who don't comply. "There's been a paradigm shift in how people view the potential contribution of the private sector," says Dr. Nick Hellman, who made an inspection of ACHAP in August on behalf of the Gates Foundation. "They have the knowledge and the experience. Most drug companies have specific programs geared toward global health issues. If you're trying to distribute drugs, who do you go to? To the people who make them. For many of these problems, you have to get the private sector involved in these issues to have any kind of solution...
...looking for support. But they say, 'We don't do that, we only do this.' It doesn't take much to provide something to bring the youth together and teach them about AIDS. It just takes a basketball court. ACHAP understood that. And they built it." Maybe running a drug company in Africa need not be so bad after...
Police crack down on drug trafficking...
...also helped Galanter's profile. Simpson's celebrity made the lawyer a public figure almost overnight. Whenever Simpson gets in trouble - and that seems to be a constant - Galanter's name has been out there. That has included a federal drug raid on Simpson's home in 2001, a ticket for speeding in a manatee zone in 2002, a domestic violence call to his residence in 2003, and his participation last year in the writing of a fictional account of the murders of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman...