Saturday, June 02, 2007

Merck - Efavirenz: a spoonful of sugar




The Thai Public Health Ministry yesterday accepted for consideration American pharmaceutical giant Merck's offer of free anti-Aids medication, in the form of a syrup, to treat 2,500 Thai HIV-positive children.

According to the Aids Access Foundation, there are around 8,000 children with the infection in the country.

Merck's proposal was seen as another bid by the company to convince the ministry not to put the firm's Aids drug Efavirenz under its compulsory licensing policy.

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