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The term "paradigm shift" became something of a cliché in the late 20th century, but there are few who would argue with its use to describe the revolution in global thinking that occurred less than five years ago, when the world community decided that it was actually not all right for people to die from a treatable disease just because they could not afford the drugs they needed. In reality, few people probably ever thought that it was acceptable, but the world seemed to be constructed in a way that said it was. That was the paradigm. If you had
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