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Strategy of Negotiating Prices and Producing AIDS Drugs Saves Brazil $1 Billion

November 14, 2007

Brazil’s strategy of negotiating AIDS drug prices with multinational pharmaceutical companies and producing generic AIDS drugs locally saved that country’s AIDS program approximately 1 billion U.S. dollars between 2001 and 2005, according to research published in PLoS Medicine.
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