Fire in the Blood: The Epic Tale of How Affordable Generic Drugs Were Kept from the World's Poorest Patients

Greene and Sampat document the legal and corporate architecture that kept AIDS drugs from sub-Saharan Africa during the height of the epidemic — patent law weaponised against dying people. The pharmaceutical companies knew what was happening. The trade agreements made it possible. The activists who broke through are the only figures in this story who behave well, and they very nearly lost.