Thank you for giving me the opportunity to address the committee on this.
I work with the AIDS Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, which is a regional African organization of NGOs that are connecting people living with or affected by HIV. I'm not in a position to give you a detailed legal analysis of the proposed amendments, but I'm going to restrict my comments to three main points.
First is the affordability of medicine, one of the most critical influences of the political world...[Inaudible--Editor].
Secondly, the global HIV...[Inaudible—Editor]...in which decisions like this, which have major impacts, and this is the role of Canada in ensuring that developing countries have access to generic medicines from generic producers...[Inaudible--Editor]...is more important now than it has ever been in the past.