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Generic AIDS drugs to expand treatment

    JOHANNESBURG

    A clinical trial has shown that combination generic AIDS drugs are as effective as brand-name drugs and could provide hope for cheaper medicines in developing countries, British medical weekly, The Lancet, reports.

    Conducted in Cameroon by the French Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement, the six-month study found that 80 percent of the 60 HIV-positive respondents had an undetectable viral load after six months of taking two combo-pills a day.

    "The development of simple and inexpensive generic fixed-dose combined therapies appears the most suitable solution for making possible this access to treatments in developing countries with meagre resources," researchers said.

    The 3-in-one pill replicates the AIDS cocktail recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) since 2002.

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