PHA-Exchange> Clinton Secures Aids Drugs Deal

[Claudio]

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      If this information is confirmed it will mean that the tri ARV therapy will cost only around USD 135 a year for the drugs only. So far the cheapest cost for drugs was from Thailand production with USD 1 a day.  The lesson is even generic companies are able to decrease their price, what about the international companies? 
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      CLINTON SECURES AIDS DRUGS DEAL
      24.10.2003. 08:44:59
      http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=71439&region=4
     
           
           
      Former United States President Bill Clinton has announced a deal with four generic-drug companies to slash the price of AIDS drugs in parts of the developing world. The agreement with three Indian pharmaceutical firms and a South African company will cut the price of a commonly used triple-drug treatment by almost a third, to about US$0.38 ($A0.54) a day per patient. 

      The same regime using patented drugs currently costs around $US1.54 ($A2.19), and $US0.55 ($A0.78) for generic drugs. 

      The deal was brokered by the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative, which worked extensively with the four firms. It ensures the delivery of cheaper drugs to countries where the foundation is working with governments and organisations to set up care, treatment and prevention programs. 

      They include nine countries in the Caribbean and the African nations of Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania. 

      The foundation estimates that up to six million people living with AIDS worldwide currently need treatment to save their lives. That number is expected to rise substantially, with more than 40 million others infected with HIV. 

      However only 300,000 people in the developing world are receiving anti-retroviral drugs, more than one third of them in Brazil. 

      Of the four million AIDS sufferers in sub-Sahran Africa, only 50,000 are receiving the required treatment. 

      SOURCE: World News  


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