Discounted HIV Drug Access In The Developing World

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U.S. World Trade Negotiators Must Maintain Access to Low Cost HIV/AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries, Editorial Says

The U.S. is working with the Southern African Customs Union to negotiate a free trade agreement that could affect access to generic HIV/AIDS drugs in the region, and it is "important" that the U.S. "does not, in the process, restrict the ability"... Read more »

GSK Should Allow Generic Competition for HIV/AIDS Drugs to Address Innovation, Access Problems in Developing Countries, Opinion Piece Says

GlaxoSmithKline 's recent announcement that it plans to reduce drug prices in some low-income countries and share information on patented drugs is "welcome" but not a "radical departure from standard fare," Tido von Schoen-Angerer -- director of... Read more »

Antiretroviral Drug Discounts Should Be Extended for Countries Classified as "Middle-Income," Opinion Piece Says

Pricing antiretroviral drugs and other "lifesaving" medications based on a country's gross national income per capita "seems particularly arbitrary -- and even cruel" -- given that HIV-positive people often have incomes "well below what might be... Read more »

Ask the Experts

Hetrosex is not the primary source of HIV/AIDS in the Developing World

Hi Dr Bob,Please consider this argument.Studies have proved that the rapid spread of this disease in the developing world is primarily the outcome of poor hospital sanitation. People in Africa are more likely to be infected by dirty injections...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,The wildfire spread of HIV/AIDS in developing countries has many overlapping causes, including, but not limited to, poverty. Yes, the "moral problem" rationality has never made sense to anyone with half a brain or ounce of common... Read more »

medicare drug discount cards

I am medicare eligible due to disability related to my HIV/HBV status. My drug expenses are over $1000/month. Are there any drug companies who plan to offer discounts on their expensive medications (epivir, ziagen and viread in particular) through...

Response from Lynn L. Franzoi

Worldwide Benefits for Fox, Inc.

The new Medicare discount card should be available in June of this year. Since you have Medicare, you will be receiving information from the SSA re the new card and this should provide you with answers to these questions. At this time, I do not... Read more »

Access to new HIV drugs in 2010

What are the 2010 options for salvage patients? I have low t cells and I'm also dual-tropic. I would like to know if I can access any upcoming studies for patients in my situation?...

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.

Program for Wellness Restoration

I attempted to provide an update on where we are in the development of HIV medications that may help people like us who have multi drug resistance and may be in clinical decline. There is a small population of HIV+ patients who cannot currently... Read more »

is it possable to develop HIV in anal sex? HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES, 2009)

hello, me and my girlfriend recently had unprotected anal sex, she has done it before so we did it the "right" way going slow and pleanty of k-y and there was no trama but this was her 1st time unprotected. we are both absolutly clean of...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,And here we go again! You're wondering if two people who are HIV/STD negative can give each other an STD or HIV just because they have unprotected anal sex. That is a QTND with an ATNC. (See below.) Dr. BobHow to contract HIV (HIV... Read more »

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Access to drugs

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi! I'm trying to get a more realistic feel for people's access to anti-HIV medications and health care. To what extent does your private insurance and/or Medicare cover your medications/health care, and if you have no insurance, how do you get... Read more »

FIRST IN WORLD TO BE CURED OF HIV !!

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