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MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush announced his five-year, $15 billion plan to combat AIDS, only 300,000 of the world's 6 million neediest HIV-infected patients are receiving anti- retroviral drugs.
So says the World Health Organization. And one WHO official also says pharmaceutical drug manufacturers are partly to blame. They oppose distribution of lower-cost, foreign-manufactured equivalent drugs.See the full content of this document
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Rx Greed May Undercut Aids Fight
Anti-retrovirals are the medicines that have substantially slowed AIDS mortality rates in the United States and Europe. The New York...
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