Treatment access

ART can successfully tackle advanced disease in resource poor settings, reports MSF

Investment in treatment and care significantly reduces company health and social expenditure in Abidjan

Financing the global response to the epidemic will cost $9.2 billion a year, according to one estimate

The Global Fund: what, where, how much?

Leading businesses spurn Global Fund

14 Caribbean governments sign cut-price drugs agreement with six pharmaceutical companies

Thailand offers low-cost transfer to African countries of technology for the local production of generic antiretrovirals

Informal market plays a role in distributing antiretrovirals but exposes clients to risks

Hydroxychloroquine, hydroxycarbamide, and didanosine as economic treatment for HIV-1

US foundation bars GlaxoSmithKline representatives over AIDS drug pricing

WHO releases guidelines for use of antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infection in developing countries (2002)

Mbeki backs down: he shuns dissidents and expands drug treatment programme

Early access programme offers adefovir for treatment of HBV

South Africa finds 1 billion Rand to treble HIV budget, after Mandela confronts Mbeki

Meeting calls for NHS funding and training to provide repair treatment for people with facial lipoatrophy

South African treatment activists defy patent laws to import generic antiretrovirals from Brazil

Survey reveals pregnant Zambians support universal nevirapine treatment

Drug companies’ spending on advertising double research and development spending in 2000

Nigeria to launch AIDS treatment program

Abbott Labs cuts prices on many drugs, treatments amid pricing investigation

Yale economist introduces proposal to settle debate between pharmaceutical companies and developing nations

Kenyan lawmakers approve bill to suspend drug patent rights and improve cheaper drug access

South African government issues first draft of legislation allowing importation of discounted pharmaceuticals

International aid group to begin administering AIDS drugs to small group of poor South Africans

Britain to Donate £75 million to global AIDS fund

Uganda to offer free HIV drugs to pregnant women to prevent vertical HIV transmission

Cipla announces plan to manufacture 3-in-1 HIV pil

Huge mining firm to provide African employees with AIDS medications

South African Department of health has not killed possibility of AIDS drug provision, letter says

Government, pricing not the only problems

South Africa AIDS drug settlement may not signify immediate influx of drugs

AIDS crisis has Sspurred public relations challenges for pharmaceutical industry, Wall Street Journal reports

Drug companies withdraw HIV drug lawsuit against South Africa

Ethiopia to import AIDS drugs for first time

AIDS care for Africa affordable

Tony Blair sides with drug giants

South African court battle damages drug industry’s image

Red Cross slams drug firms over pricing policies

Medecins Sans Frontieres urges drugs giants to drop South Africa suit

Second Indian firm offers cut-price HIV drugs

Yale pressed to help cut drug costs in Africa

GlaxoSmithKline offers 90% discount on HIV drugs to Africa

HIV drug prices cut for poorer countries

Bristol-Myers Squibb offers to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at below cost

Roche and Trimeris announce US sites and investigators for T-20 phase III study; activists want wider access to drug for sickest AIDS patients

European activists demand greater access to T-20

From talk to action in fighting AIDS in the developing countries: 8th Retrovirus Conference opening session

UNAIDS calls for new deal between pharmaceutical companies and society

US trade action threatens Brazilian AIDS programme

Brazil may flout trade laws to keep AIDS drugs free for patients

Roche open to discuss patent rights of AIDS drug with Brazil

Crusading Indian firm takes on might of Glaxo SmithKline: Cipla offers anti-HIV drugs at a fraction of rivals’ prices

GSK to review drug pricing policy: pharmaceuticals giant reacts to criticism over costs to poor countries

Oxfam launches stinging attack on drug industry over cheap medicines ban

Companies weigh offer of royalties for AIDS drugs aimed at Africa

Glaxo blocks importation of generic Combivir into Ghana

Loans to buy AIDS drugs are rejected by Africans

$1bn drug deal creates debt for “tomorrow’s AIDS orphans”

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