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Drug companies promise investment in AIDS research

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that some of the top pharmaceutical firms have promised to make greater investments in research for treatments for AIDS with particular focus for poorer regions.

Abbott Laboratories under attack for AIDS repricing

A cross-party coalition of US senators has called for an investigation into the action by Abbott Laboratories to increase the price of its antiretroviral drug Norvir by 400%.

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Social responsibility and finance - on the precipice

In a recent article, the BBC's economics editor Robert Peston highlighted the fact that in 2012 the chances are that the economy - punch drunk as it is from the various flavours of debt crisis it has been pummelled with over the course of the year - will be hit by the collapse of a major bank and / or government.