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...forced the multinational companies to drop prices. Until last year, Flucanazole, an important antibiotic used to fight a fatal form of meningitis that accompanies AIDS, cost $7.36 a tablet. This year the Thais began manufacturing it locally, and the price dropped to $1. Glaxo Wellcome reduced the price of AZT to less than $1 per tablet after Thailand began making its own version...
DIED. GERTRUDE ELION, 81, pioneer researcher and Nobel prizewinner; in Chapel Hill, N.C. She helped develop the first drugs to combat leukemia and herpes effectively, and oversaw the development of AZT, used to treat AIDS...
...second problem: in a French study of the same drugs, two infants died from a rare neurological disease. It is by no means clear that the drugs--AZT and 3TC--are the cause, but the possibility has researchers poring over their data. Even if it proves to be true, though, the benefit in AIDS prevention probably outweighs the harm. On balance, the fact that a treatment the poor can afford may save their babies' lives seems like something to celebrate...
Currently, one major class of drugs that fights AIDS, called RT inhibitors, tries to interfere with RT. These drugs range from AZT...
Congress's request came in reaction to the findings of a 1994 trial of AZT, a drug that reduces transmission of HIV to babies by two-thirds...