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...United States, those cocktail treatments cost an AIDS patient some $15,000 a year. That puts them way beyond the reach of the overwhelming majority of the millions of South Africans at risk. Even at the substantial discounts the drug companies have offered many African countries, the treatments remain prohibitively expensive for most...
...There's a hideous absurdity, of course, in the realization that their deaths are actually preventable. There are drugs available, after all, that can contain the disease and prevent it from stealing lives, complicated cocktail treatments developed by brilliant scientists that can make AIDS manageable...
Among the most notable outfits were a pair of "green butt pants," as tech designer Christian Lerch '04 called them; a short, pink, shiny cocktail dress (its model, Dionne N. Harmon '01, apparently refused to take it off); and a back-less dress with train and red bodice...
...opens the door for other countries to follow suit by taking advantage of a legal loophole in global-trade rules called compulsory licensing. In effect, it lets countries breach patents during national emergencies to manufacture generic versions of AIDS drugs. So a virtually identical version of the antiretroviral combination cocktail that sells for $10,000 to $15,000 a year in the U.S. costs $3,000 in Brazil and less than $1,000 in India. And when Brazil decided to provide the generic drugs free to all its AIDS victims, it disproved the argument that poor countries couldn't master...
...ground impact from these moves in Africa is hard to find. Each country must negotiate the price of each AIDS-cocktail component with each company, and the tough bargaining has barely begun. While Senegal, for instance, might haggle prices down 75% or 80%, the therapy is still too costly at $1,200 a year for people who earn $510 a year, Senegal's per capita income. And to start, the company will provide sufficient drugs for only 800 patients over five years. Kim Nichols, policy director at the New York City-based African Services, calls it "too little, too late...