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Four drug makers will cut price on AIDS drugs to poor countries

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 17th, 2003

Four foreign generic drug companies will provide low-cost AIDS drugs to several nations in Africa and the Caribbean, former President Bill Clinton said, announcing an agreement brokered by his foundation.

The plan will cut the price of a triple-drug regimen in those countries to about 38 cents a day, Clinton said at a news conference.

"This agreement will allow the delivery of lifesaving medicines to people who desperately need them," Clinton said. "It represents a big breakthrough in our efforts to begin treatment programs in places where, until now, there has been virtually no medicine and therefore no hope."

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-11-17)

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