  urlLink Guardian Unlimited | Weblog : "The US could not have got more attention if it had sent the entire Centres for Disease Control staff to Bangkok. Yesterday President Chirac had a good go, criticising the Americans for pursuing bilateral trade deals with hefty intellectual property clauses which could stop some developing countries making their own cheap copycat versions of the multinational drug companies' Aids pills. The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, followed up with a TV interview in which he castigated the US for failing to hand over a decent whack of the $15bn (£8bn) it had promised to the Global Fund for Aids over five years. The cause of the Global Fund is held dear here, among the activists, NGOs, campaigners and, it has to be said, the governments of developing countries. Almost everyone in fact except the USA, and the UK has its doubts. " 
