Fighting AIDS with generic drugs

According to the World Health Organisation, generic drugs are "key to uphill AIDS fight". Ben Hirschler reports for Reuters from Malta:

Generic drugs hold the key to AIDS treatment in the developing world, although a target of getting 3 million people on therapy by the end of 2005 may now be out of reach, according to the World Health Organization. Hans Hogerzeil, its director of medicines policy and standards, said around half of those on AIDS drugs in poor countries were taking generic tablets, most of them made in India. Speaking at a pharmaceuticals conference in Malta, he urged the United States to work with the world health body to include more generics in its AIDS treatment programs, which currently mainly use more expensive branded medicines...

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