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"Generic AIDS drugs set to be imported"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(02/12/05)
THE Government plans to import anti-retroviral generic drugs, Health
Ministry’s parliamentary secretary Lee Kah Choon said.
He told Datuk Dr Rahman Ismail (BN – Gombak) that drug addicts with HIV/AIDS
would be required to pay RM180 a month for the anti-retroviral therapy,
adding that the Government was already subsidising two other drugs for them.
Replying to a supplementary question by Dr Tan Seng Giaw (DAP – Kepong) he
said without preventive and measures by 2015, the number of people with
HIV/AIDS could go up to 300,000.
Currently, he said there were 65,000 people with HIV/AIDS including 7,500
who had died. There are 18 new cases daily.
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