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South Africa to provide cheaper HIV/AIDS drugs

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently announced it was set to begin the local manufacture of generic HIV/AIDS drugs.

    "The project will be launched in South Africa in mid-May and later extended to several African countries with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria," DTI chemical engineer, Andre Kudlinsky, said in a statement.

    Meanwhile, local AIDS activists said despite the initiative being an important step, they prefered to wait for "something more concrete".

    "It sounds promising. I hope this is just not spin and there is something concrete," Treatment Action Campaign spokesman, Nathan Geffen, told the UN news service PlusNews.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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