Antiretroviral
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Pharmaceutical companies have been reluctant to make the
antiretroviral
medications used to treat HIV/AIDS available in a cost-effective manner for public-health use.
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There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of
antiretroviral
medicines, and make them available in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000 dollars per patient per year to 350 dollars per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is available for 60 dollars per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
Treatment programs became possible, funding became available, and the number of people on
antiretroviral
drugs started to increase very rapidly.
Today, eight million people have access to
antiretroviral
drugs.
Here you see the patent practices before the World Trade Organization's rules, before '95, before
antiretroviral
drugs.
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