For Profit Harms

For Profit Harms: Decolonizing Pharmaceuticals, The South African Fight Against HIV/AIDS

This podcast details patent protections which acted to hinder South Africa’s ability to purchase life-saving generic medication for its population during the AIDS epidemic. This draws upon frameworks of health equity, marginalization, and human rights to understand intellectual property laws (IP) which perpetuated racialized capitalism making South African people more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. We discuss how these laws protected the profit margins of large pharmaceutical companies, who engaged...