Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon

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Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon

INDIA PRESS: Cipla To Provide AIDS Drug To Cameroon

07/27/2001. Dow Asian Equities Report

NEW DELHI -(Dow )- Cipla Ltd. (P.CIP) has signed an agreement

with the Cameroon government to supply its AIDS triple therapy at

$350 per patient a year, according to the Financial Express.

The Indian pharmaceutical company signed a similar deal with the

Nigerian government and negotiations are underway with Algeria, said

the local daily. The therapy is a three-drug combination of AIDS

medicines. Cipla said it is willing to sell AIDS drugs " at cost "

to any government that distributes them free to the people.Joint

Managing Director Amar Lulla said the Cameroon deal is expected

to be worth half a million dollars every three or four months,

reports the daily.

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By Dow Newswires; 91-11-461-9427; sonal.singh@...

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