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News outlets report on efforts to address the cost of drugs for HIV/AIDS as well as other related developments. The Washington Post: 'Radical' Bill Seeks To Reduce Cost Of AIDS Drugs By Awarding Prizes Instead Of Patents Prizes, not patents.
May 21, 2012 at 13:38 | Source: Kaiser Health News
(c) 2012, The Washington Post. WASHINGTON — Prizes, not patents. That could be the slogan for a radical idea that leading economists say would lower the price of new drugs for treating HIV/AIDS. Treating AIDS costs tens of thousands of dollars per ...
May 20, 2012 at 06:30 | Source: nola.com
Treating AIDS costs tens of thousands of dollars per patient annually in the United States, and more and more patients are unable to afford the life-saving drugs, according to figures from the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. The waiting list for ...
May 20, 2012 at 06:44 | Source: Democratic Underground.com
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Sen. Bernard Sanders, I–Vt., chairman of the subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, held a hearing Tuesday to discuss his proposal to ...
May 16, 2012 at 13:22 | Source: Kansas City infoZine
Each year, another 50,000 Americans are infected and 10,000 people die annually because of AIDS in America. Although medicines can slow or stop the disease, many HIV-positive Americans simply cannot afford the drugs they need. An AIDS Drug ...
May 15, 2012 at 15:11 | Source: Common Dreams
Sanders’ legislation, S. 1138, would eliminate legal barriers to generic competition for HIV/AIDS drugs and reward innovation directly, through a $3 billion a year prize fund. It would unleash unprecedented advances in medical innovation in ...
May 14, 2012 at 14:44 | Source: Common Dreams
Doctors have warned that there is a huge shortfall in the amount of drugs needed to treat the 240,000 HIV sufferers in Burma, according to The Guardian. Of this number, half are urgently in need of life-saving anti-retroviral treatment (ART), yet in 2010 ...
May 10, 2012 at 08:50 | Source: The Irrawaddy News Magazine
"The nation's network of AIDS Drug Assistance Programs face desperate circumstances because of high prices for drugs like Gilead's Atripla-and, soon, the 'Quad.' As a healthcare provider and advocacy group, AIDS Healthcare Foundation will ...
May 10, 2012 at 00:44 | Source: TMCnet
About 1.2 million Americans have HIV, which attacks the immune system and, unless treated with antiviral drugs, develops into AIDS, a fatal condition in which the body cannot fight off infections. If Truvada is approved, it would be a major ...
May 9, 2012 at 03:44 | Source: Toledo Blade
The vote marks a departure in the battle to control the HIV/AIDS pandemic – HIV drugs until now have always been approved for therapy, rather than for so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis. The following day the panel turned to another medication ...
May 12, 2012 at 14:53 | Source: MedPage Today