Aline Bastos
Reporter - Agência Brasil

New York - The minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, called for incentives to encourage developing countries to produce anti-retroviral medications and the active ingredients of drugs used to combat the HIV virus.

Today (2), during the special United Nations (UN) session on HIV/AIDS, he called attention to the need for more bilateral, regional, and international efforts to promote large-scale bidding processes, price negotiations, and licensing to lower the costs of preventing and treating the disease.

"We recognize the importance of intellectual property rights. But no commercial right can be invoked in detriment of the right to life and health," he observed.

Translation: David Silberstein