For Some Time Now, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Has Been Making Anti-AIDS

question 103

Multiple Choice

For some time now, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been making anti-AIDS drugs like Retrovir and Epivir available in hard-hit areas of Africa at up to 75 percent off the global price. But that wasn't enough for AIDS prevention groups, which were outraged by GSK's decision to use the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) patent protection rules to take action against governments importing lower-cost versions of these drugs. AIDS prevention groups saw GSK's use of WTO regulation as acting at which level of social responsibility?

• A) economic
• B) fiscal
• C) legal
• D) discretionary
• E) accommodative

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