The Scientist : Samoa to benefit from AIDS drug [1/10/2004]

Email: Harvey Black - hblack@chorus.net
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20041001-02

1 October 2004

In an agreement that is being lauded as a model for drugs developed from ethnobotany efforts, the University of California at Berkeley and the tiny Pacific Ocean island nation of Samoa will share equally in royalties from the sales of an anti-AIDS drug derived from the genes of the Samoan native mamala tree, it was announced yesterday (September 30).

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