[Pharm-policy] Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon

[James Love]

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Subject: Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:32:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sharonann Lynch <salynch00@earthlink.net>
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INDIA PRESS: Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon
07/27/2001
Dow Jones Asian Equities Report
 
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- Cipla Ltd. (P.CIP) has signed an agreement 
with the Cameroon government to supply its AIDS triple therapy at 
$350 per patient a year, according to the Financial Express.

The Indian pharmaceutical company signed a similar deal with the 
Nigerian government and negotiations are underway with Algeria, said 
the local daily.

The therapy is a three-drug combination of AIDS medicines.

Cipla said it is willing to sell AIDS drugs "at cost" to any 
government that distributes them free to the people.

Joint Managing Director Amar Lulla said the Cameroon deal is expected 
to be worth half a million dollars every three or four months, 
reports the daily.

   Web Site: http://www.financialexpress.com

   -By Dow Jones Newswires; 91-11-461-9427; sonal.singh@dowjones.com
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Sharonann Lynch
Health GAP Coalition
212-674-9598