Object
Pharmaceutical Patent Treaties
Toby thrusts 'patent treaties' into the fray like loaded weapons, these multilateral fortresses—compact binders crammed with clauses and annexes that lock in drugmakers' monopolies on pricing and production. In the hallway's tense standoff, Josh parries with political impotence while Toby brands them enforceable chains pharma giants exploit to starve nations; no pages flip or folios exchange hands, yet they pulse as the dispute's beating heart, reframing AIDS drugs from abstract policy to human desperation under Nimbala's gaze.
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Purpose
Establish cross-border intellectual property rights, empowering pharmaceutical companies to dictate exclusive manufacturing, distribution, and pricing for drugs, thereby constraining government interventions on costs.
Significance
Ignite the corridor clash between Josh's grim realism and Toby's searing moral fury, crystallizing the summit's stakes: shatter these treaties' grip or condemn Nimbala's people to untreatable plague, transforming dry legalese into a human face staring down extinction.
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