Associated Press

Thai Health Groups Urge Abbott Boycott
By AMBIKA AHUJA 03.20.07, 3:02 PM ET

Health groups in Thailand called on Tuesday for a boycott of U.S. drug maker Abbott Laboratories after it announced it won't introduce any new medicines in the country because of the government's decision to allow generic versions of its patented AIDS-fightin drug.

A deadly game of pharmaceutical apartheid 

 Published on March 16, 2007                                              
                                                                           
    Abbott is now doing what drug companies have long threatened to do when developing countries use lawful flexibilities to access more affordable generic medicines - it is threatening to take its marbles and go home.