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NEW AGE: ‘Pharmagate’ protestors deliver memo

Hundreds of health activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Section 27, yesterday protested against the controversial PharmaGate plot outside pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp and Dohme's (MSD's) premises in Midrand, Johannesburg... Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the PharmaGate plot as "genocide"... PharmaGate is an attempt by big pharmaceutical companies to campaign against patent reforms and cheaper generic medicines.

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