Pfizer Honors Cheap Drugs In Grand Style As President Carter Fetes Trachoma Program
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Providing free Zithromax helps strengthen intellectual property protections, Pfizer CEO Read argues.
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