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...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), one of four institutions administering the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), won a five-year $107 million grant in February for relief work in Botswana, Nigeria and Tanzania...
...story begins last year, when President Bush announced the creation of the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). One of PEPFAR’s central planks is treatment, namely putting 2 million people onto anti-retroviral AIDS medicines by 2008. But not all anti-retrovirals are created equal. Today, the administration faces a critical choice—whether to allow PEPFAR grantees to purchase generic three-in-one fixed dose combination (FDCs) therapies...
...much. This gap will soon double—the Clinton Foundation last month negotiated an agreement with generic manufacturers to supply FDCs to developing nations for as little as $140 per year. If these price differentials don’t seem like a big deal, consider the human cost: PEPFAR has a tightly capped budget, so buying more expensive brand-name drugs means buying fewer drugs—two to four times fewer drugs. That means two to four times fewer individuals will receive access to lifesaving drugs; they’ll be given a death sentence instead...