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Evaluate the actions of each key player in the case on GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squib, and Aids in Africa regarding utilitarianism, rights, justice, and caring.

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The United States pharmaceutical industries GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squib developed medicine to help with HIV/AIDS prevention. The HIV/AIDS was estimated to be ten million worldwide. The terms for AIDS/HIV are Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

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According to GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical company, founded in 1873, with 2003 revenues of $38.2 billion and profits of $8 billion, held the patents to five antiretrovirals it had created. These companies merger is making it one of the world's largest and most profitable companies. (Study Mode Research, 2012).

An analysis of this case "GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squib, and AIDS in Africa," the key player regarding utilitarianism, rights, justice, and caring is the company. Management ...

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