Posted on: 05-07-04 10:49:59
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=EBE872D0-1A3C-4129-9E2B2C9CEE8EF766
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A team of French medical researchers say a single dose of an inexpensive AIDS medicine is just as effective as three doses of expensive drugs.
The French national agency for AIDS research published its findings in the British medical journal Lancet.
The generic medicine is manufactured by an Indian pharmaceutical firm.
Doctors gave a single pill containing generic versions of three separate drugs to 60 AIDS patients in the West African nation of Cameroon. The patients took the pill twice a day. Six months later, 80 percent of the patients showed no sign of the virus.
The researchers say the cheap drugs can help the United Nations reach its goal of treating three million HIV-infected people in developing countries by the end of 2005.
More links:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2004-07-02-cheap-aids-pill_x.htm
http://www.healthtalk.ca/aids_drug_07032004_2039.php
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