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Sunday, September 17, 2006
icWales - Glaxo backs Russian HIV/Aids crusade
icWales - Glaxo backs Russian HIV/Aids crusade: "PHARMACEUTICALS giant GlaxoSmithKline yesterday announced it had struck a deal to supply cut-price HIV/Aids drugs to Russia.
The agreement is the first direct federal purchase of anti-retroviral medicines in Russia.
Glaxo will supply more than 90,000 treatment packs of its drugs - Combivir, Epivir and Ziagen - to the Russian Government by the end of 2006. These medicines, which are used as mainstay treatment for HIV, will be dispensed by hospital centres across the country."
The agreement is the first direct federal purchase of anti-retroviral medicines in Russia.
Glaxo will supply more than 90,000 treatment packs of its drugs - Combivir, Epivir and Ziagen - to the Russian Government by the end of 2006. These medicines, which are used as mainstay treatment for HIV, will be dispensed by hospital centres across the country."
:: posted by R. W. Graf, 6:33 AM
