Responding to Global Constraints and Opportunities: Law and Access to Medicines in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

This paper explores the interaction of three realms of law and policy and how they have been transformed by the struggle over access to medicines in the context of post-Apartheid South Africa's HIV/AIDS pandemic. Through an analysis of the laws, institutions and policies in the realms of health, trade and competition law, this paper argues that the effect of the interaction of these distinct areas has been to transform not only each of these areas of law but the state itself. The paper concludes that is transformation occurs as a consequence of responses to global and local dynamics that include global opportunities and constraints in each of these areas, shaped in part by the particular nature of the corresponding global legal regimes and is expressed as a product of struggles over local laws, institutions and political goals. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]