HIV/AIDS Treatment

Big pharmaceutical companies pledge to work on AIDS drug

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 7th, 2004

The Bush administration announced a new initiative to speed up the approval process for new combination AIDS drugs that will bring cheap, easy-to-use treatment to millions of people in Africa and the Caribbean.

The announcement came as three major U.S. pharmaceutical companies said they'll work to develop an AIDS drug offering a single daily dose.

In a joint statement, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Gilead Sciences Inc. and Merck & Co. Inc., said they will pursue research to combine three of their HIV medicines into a single tablet.

In Geneva, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said the Food and Drug Administration...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-06-07)

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