HIV Therapies

African Countries Negotiate With Thailand For Generic HIV Drugs

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 7th, 2002

Two African countries are negotiating with Thailand's government to learn how to produce cheap, generic anti-HIV drugs on the continent hardest-hit by AIDS, the World Health Organization says.

Zimbabwe and Ghana are finalizing deals under which Thailand would provide the technical expertise needed to set up factories to produce the drugs in Africa, WHO representative Mariane Ngoulla said December 12, 2001.

Ngoulla, who heads a research unit on traditional medicine at WHO's Africa headquarters in Zimbabwe, was speaking at the 12th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa, which ended in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-01-07)

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