如果你曾经买过一个品牌药，而它其实是有一个更加便宜而且相似的非专利的替代品时，那么，你就是在浪费钱！

If you ever buy a name brand when there's a cheaper and identical generic substitute available, you're wasting cash.

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卫生官员无需考虑专利情况就能够购买低价的非专利药品。

Health officials could purchase lower-priced generic medicines without having to consider the patent status.

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在40多个低收入国家进行的调查表明，仅有44%的公共部门和65%的私营部门有清单所列非专利药品的库存。

Surveys conducted in over 40 low-income countries show that 44% of public sector and 65% of private sector outlets had the listed generic medicines in stock.

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And so there was a dispute and the pharmaceutical company sued the South African government to try to prevent their buying the cheap generic, as they saw it, pirated version of an AIDS drug.

因此这存在着纠纷,制药公司起诉了南非政府,以阻止他们购买这些低价的非专利药，在他们看来，这些都是盗版的艾滋病药。

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