/ 13 March 2001

HIV DRUG FIRM FEELS THE HEAT

POLICE showed up in force on Monday outside the Washington offices of pharmaceuticals industry association Pharma, as Act-Up Philadelphia staged an unauthorised demonstration to highlight the plight of untreated HIV-sufferers in South Africa. A lively group of around 300 people, many of them infected with HIV, milled around a huge Dracula-style dummy with blood on its hands. – AFP