Aid of AIDS

Drugs given away by AIDS patients in U.S. prolong lives worldwide

Published in Patient Care Law Weekly, July 11th, 2004

Jose Clemente, who restores artworks in Mexico's capital, has never met Daphne Rivera, a Brooklyn health educator. But medicines donated by Rivera are keeping Clemente alive.

From Mexico to Mauritania, India to Iran, patients in poor countries have to piece together drug cocktails helping to prolong their lives using HIV and AIDS pills donated in the United States.

Americans give away their pills after they switch medications or while taking physician-encouraged drug holidays. Others are donated by friends and family members of U.S. patients who die.

U.S. authorities won't take back unused drugs once they have been prescribed...

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