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Abbott Continues Drug Blacklist in Thailand, Says AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Published in AIDS Weekly and Law, May 10th, 2007

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US' largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, today chastised US drug giant, Abbott Laboratories for its 'quid pro quo' offer earlier today to the Government of Thailand to lower its price for Abbott's key AIDS drug, Aluvia (a heat-stable tablet version of Kaletra) to approximately USD$800 per patient per year -- an offer contingent upon Abbott's demand that Thailand immediately halt issuing compulsory licenses for the generic manufacture of this lifesaving drug. Abbott, vowed to continue its drug blacklist against the people of...

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