The news about the combination pill containing generic version of three antiretroviral drugs being as effective as their expensive counterparts is all over the internet. For me, this is not at all a surprise. Back in the days of the Anthrax scare, the prophylactic drug of those times Ciprofloxacin used to be upto 10 times cheaper and as effective when it came in the generic form from manufacturers in India. Besides, the BBC has been reiterating the claims of the Indian companies in it's programs about the AIDS situation in Africa.
The facts are staring at you. The US administration should take notice. I hope the people concerned will forget whatever has happened and help the needy in the epidemic stricken nations in Africa and Asia.
In addition to that, I've been wondering what the actual combination is.
In addition to being cheaper, drugs like Triomune -- which contains GlaxoSmithKline's lamivudine, Bristol-Myers Squibb's stavudine and Boehringer Ingelheim's nevirapine -- are simpler to use since patients need to take only two pills a day.
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