Indian company offers cheap anti-AIDS drugs

Bush accused of blocking access to cheap AIDS drugs.

News International health charities have accused George Bush's administration of trying to block developing countries' access to cheap AIDS drugs by questioning the quality of " three in one " generic combination drugs. At a meeting this week in Gaborone, Botswana, the US global AIDS coordinator, Ran-dall Tobias, said that the World Health Organization's drug pre-qualification programme is not ...

Private company offers hope to cancer patients--for a price.

Cancer drugs in LMICs: cheap but unaffordable

Towards a Cheap and Easy Way to Monitor HIV/AIDS

July 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 7 | e238 | e242 Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a chronically painful condition that is a complication of shingles (acute herpes zoster), a recurrence of the varicellazoster virus, which initially causes chickenpox. Although shingles usually resolves within a month, some people continue to feel the pain of PHN long after the rash and blisters heal, because of nerve ...

No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries.