Brazil Enters New Era of Co-Production of Anti-AIDS Drugs

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6 2012 (IPS) - A new kind of public-private partnership will begin in 2013 in Brazil to produce an antiretroviral drug, through a technology transfer agreement that will be in effect until the patent expires in 2017.

The productive development partnership is based on an agreement with New York-based drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb, to produce atazanavir sulphate.

The drug will be made by Farmanguinhos, a technical-scientific unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Health Ministry’s largest pharmaceutical laboratory.

It will be distributed in the public health network as part of the antiretroviral (ARV) cocktail therapy that is provided free of charge to everyone who needs it in this country of 194 million people. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/brazil-enters-new-era-of-co-production-of-anti-aids-drugs/

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1. du rec. nt

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2. That will be super helpful for any developing nation.

Haiti or anywhere in Africa needs this sort of medication.