In 2001, Andrew Natsios of the US Agency for International Development told a US government committee that rural Africans would not be able to take ARVs because they “do not know what watches and clocks are. They use the sun.”25 (Later studies showed that sub-Saharan Africans were better at taking their medicine than Americans.)26 Strict patents prevented the use of generics. TAC launched a Defiance Campaign against Patient Abuse and AIDS Profiteering, and activists flew to Thailand to bring back cheap generic antiretrovirals in their luggage, their hand baggage, and their pockets. TAC
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