For example, if a drug is approved through a regionally standardized protocol in one country in sub-Saharan Africa, a neighboring country could approve the same drug without duplicating the review.

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Not true, reply the protocol's supporters, who won this week's vote comfortably and expect the General Assembly to approve it in September.

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