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Gore's humanitarianism loses out to strong-arm tactics

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Now that the giant drug manufacturers are stamping their feet over proposed compulsory licensing as a means of easing South Africa's AIDS crisis, Al Gore's "values of conscience" appear to have withered away.

Aspiring Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, who as Vice-President Gore has commonly embraced AIDS-related causes, has been forced to defend himself recently against charges that, on one particularly desperate AIDS issue, he is a cold-hearted lackey of the pharmaceutical industry (see Nature 399, 717; 7171999).In South Africa, where antenatal clinic surveys conducted this spring showed 22 per cent of sexually active adults to be infected with HIV, AIDS is expected to slash life expectancy to below 40 years by 2010.