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India Launches Free ARV Program
April 2, 2004
By Sabin Russell/San Francisco Chronicle
Down a dark corridor on the ground floor of this city's Lok Nyak public hospital, Room 32 beckons with a glow of bright lights, fresh paint and the promise of free antiviral drugs for a handful of India's poorest AIDS patients.
Here and at six similar sites in this nation of 1 billion citizens, the Indian government Thursday took its first, tentative steps toward distributing AIDS drugs to 100,000 people.
At the new Lok Nyak AIDS clinic, there are enough drugs for only 200 patients, and doctors launched the program today with medicines for only six. Made of combinations of generic copies of the costly antiviral drugs that prolong the lives of AIDS patients in the United States, the medication will cost the Indian government about $1 a day for each recipient.
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Jane Darby on 2 April 2004
Asia : India
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