1.   After years of brand-name dominance, generic medicines are finally starting to appear on drugstore shelves in Brazil.

2.   But Mittal applauded provisions in the agreement that allow poor countries to make and sell generic medicines to treat AIDS and other diseases.

3.   But Serra said Thursday that he believed the company was trying to delay the government from getting its laboratory prepared to make the generic medicine.

4.   Lehane said the vice president had recently proposed changes in American patent law that would speed introduction of generic medicines.

5.   One challenges tactics used by brand-name drug companies to delay the marketing of low cost generic medicines.

6.   Oxfam, a British charity, also expressed its solidarity with African governments bidding to gain access to generic medicines.

7.   But critics contend many high-priced drugs often are no more effective than cheaper alternatives, such as generic medicines.

8.   But in Indonesia there is a generic medicine which has the same effect and has been known since time immemorial.

9.   Earlier, the Philippines passed a law requiring doctors to indicate alternative generic medicines in their prescriptions to allow patients to find cheaper alternatives to branded drugs.

10.   Furthermore, the subsidy scheme has been expanded to cover generic medicines.