Word: zerit
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...drug is part of the triple-therapy AIDS cocktail that has dramatically improved treatment of the disease in the U.S., where a year’s dosage of Zerit costs about $4,600, by one estimate. But Zerit’s high price tag kept the drug out of reach for most developing-world HIV victims...
...December 2000, the humanitarian-aid group Doctors Without Borders sought to distribute a generic version of Zerit in AIDS-ravaged South Africa. Bristol-Myers Squibb balked at the request...
Yale, too, citing the terms of its negotiations with the pharmaceutical firm, would not budge. The university said the following March that it had done everything in its power to let Bristol-Myers make Zerit more accessible to South Africans...
Finally in April 2001, after a public relations debacle for the university, Yale and Bristol-Myers Squibb reached an agreement to allow generic distribution of Zerit in the developing world...
...restricting its grantees’ profits, and requiring that they distribute to developing countries, the Gates Foundation is lowering financial barriers that keep medicines like Edwards’ TB spray and Yale’s Zerit beyond the reach of the world’s impoverished...