Dar Es Salaam — Few days after President Benjamin Mkapa has directed the Ministry of Health to urgently order anti-AIDS drugs, a Dar Es Salaam-based pharmaceutical company, Keko Pharmaceuticals, has said will soon start producing anti-retroviral drugs, which will be cheap.
The company's executive director, Mercy Kimaro has told the local press here that her company was about to conclude discussions with a South African company so that they could jointly manufacture and sell anti-HIV/AIDS drugs in Tanzania. Neither the expected sellng price nor the name of a company which they will collaborate in the business were disclosed, but she has maintained that the prices would be lower than most of imported anti-HIV/AIDS drugs.
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