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Pharmaceutical Headache

The settlement of the South Africa lawsuit ends one public relations headache for the drug industry. But in Washington, another battle is just beginning. The government seems ready to commit as much as $2 billion dollars to AIDS programs in Africa. But no specific spending plans have been formulated yet, and the drug industry intends to be in on that process. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

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