Students protest at drug company's actions

Law students at Yale University in the United States have formed a pressure group after the institution licensed exclusive production of an AIDS drug to a pharmaceuticals firm for $40m (£28.5m) a year, reported Julian Borger in a recent article in the Guardian.

Yale holds the patent for the drug d4T, an antiretroviral also known as stavudine, which was invented by Professor William Prusoff, a member of the university's academic staff. The antiHIV drug is manufactured under the brand name Zerit by Bristol-Myers Squibb, the …