BILL CLINTON HELPS NEGOTIATE LOWER PRICES FOR AIDS DRUGS IN 3RD WORLD [+] ballot by cranky ACTIVE Tue May 08, 07 - Sun Jan 31, 10 Bill Clinton Announces AIDS Drug Deals NEW YORK (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton announced agreements with drug companies Tuesday to lower the price of so-called "second-line" AIDS drugs for people in the developing world and to make a once-a-day AIDS pill available for less than $1 a day. The anti-retroviral drugs are needed by patients who develop resistance to first-line treatment and currently cost 10 times as much as first-line therapy, Clinton said. Nearly half a million patients will require these drugs by 2010. Clinton's foundation negotiated agreements with generic drug makers Cipla Ltd. and Matrix Laboratories Ltd. that he said would mean an average savings of 25 percent in low-income countries and 50 percent in middle-income countries. He said the companies collaborated with the foundation to lower production costs, in part by securing lower prices for raw materials. (US News) * * * * * * * * Should multi-national pharmaceutical companies be pressured to provide AIDS drugs at a lower price in the Third World, or should they pay the same price as in the West? Big Pharma should charge less in the Third World Prices should be the same everywhere You morally can not and should not put a price on people's lives... Ballot #114689 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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