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Government signs up for cheaper AIDS drugs

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    The Malian government has signed an agreement with four international pharmaceutical companies to drastically reduce the cost of drugs which suppress the growth of HIV, AFP reported. A treatment which used to cost some US $480 per patient each month will now cost between $60 and $110 monthly, Malian Health Minister Traore Fatoumata Nafo told reporters on Saturday. The companies that signed the deal are Boehringer-Ingelheim from Germany, GlaxoSmithKline from Britain and US firms, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb. The South African government is currently engaged in a court battle with 39 pharmaceutical companies to facilitate access to cheaper medicine.

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