Clinton seals deal for cheaper Aids drugs

[Gloria]

This was all over the various shortwave broaadcasts I listened to this morning....including an in-depth analysis....This is a very big deal because it sets up a framework that can be applied in more countries....


http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22520

Clinton seals deal for cheaper Aids drugs
Johannesburg
24 October 2003 08:11
JSE Securities Exchange listed South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare has entered into an agreement with the US-based Clinton Foundation for the manufacture of anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines.

Former US President Bill Clinton announced in New York that his foundation has reached an agreement with Aspen and selected other leading multinational generic drug manufacturers on a major reduction in the price of HIV/Aids medicine.

As a result, it will be easier to make life-saving drugs widely available to people with HIV/Aids in the developing world, Aspen said in a statement on Friday.

ARVs supplied by these companies have been certified to be of high quality by the World Health Organisation and the Medicines Control Council of South Africa (MCC).

"This agreement will allow the delivery of life-saving medicines to people who desperately need them," Clinton said.

"It represents a big breakthrough in our efforts to begin treatment programmes in places where, until now, there has been virtually no medicine, and therefore no hope."

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[Gloria]

1. KICK--this is very important news....

It takes the costs down to a point where millions can be treated.

[wuushew]

2. The Freepers are not happy about this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007426/posts

For the upteenth time, Clinton doesn't care about a "legacy." He only cares about power. This legacy thing is a hoax he and his mouse and the snake Carville have tricked everyone, especially conservates, with. It is an attempt to make us think he wants something redeeming (i.e. a good legacy) when in fact, he only wants POWER and as many women as he can get.

[Gloria]

3. These people are sick, aren't they??

Bush will be out golfing/making bucks with the Carlyle Group when he's out...Clinton continues to be involved in the world...in this case, really making it better.

[DoveTurnedHawk]

4. OMG! Yes! Go Clinton!

And for the moronic people here who think Clinton is a sellout or a conservative, while they're jawing and masturbating, he's actually WORKING for the poor and people of color!

Bill Clinton...:yourock:

DTH

[Gloria]

5. I'm sure this will not get any attention in the US media....

heck, he only announced it in NYC!!!

From what I heard this AM on Radio Netherlands, I believe, they figure the cost of treating a person for a year will go down to about $120!!
They figure it will help about 2 million people in two African and several South American countries....

[LuCifer]

6. yup! our good ol' "LIBERAL MEDIA!"

Nope, it's nothin' but KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! KOBE! on our LIBERAL MEDIA. And the next rightwing Nazi who has the audacity to call CNN "the Clinton News Network" I will fart in their face. Should read: Certainly NOT News!!!!!!!!!!

Lu

[newyawker99]

7. kick

:kick:

[scarletlib]

8. Kicking it for Bill