21 October 2005 (Friday)
- AIDS activists groups, Act Up-Paris lobby group and the African Essential Drug Network (RAME), call on drugs manufacturing company Roche Holding AG to allow generic companies to make the antiviral drug Tamiflu for Africans, as concerns mount over how countries would deal with a potential flu pandemic stemming from bird flu virus H5N1. (Reuters)
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