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Lower Drug Costs Would Help HIV+ Pregnant Women in Africa

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 18th, 1998

Reducing the high rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa through treatment with antiviral drugs can be cost-effective if drug prices are lowered, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute (ARI).

Study findings showed other factors combined to produce a cost-effective outcome - such as a short-course of drug therapy and a high prevalence of HIV positive women of child-bearing age - but drug prices had the most impact. The UCSF team found drug costs need to be about 25 percent of current prices in the industrialized world.

The UCSF team conducted an...

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