Geneva — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria welcomes
U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson's announcement
Sunday of an expedited process for reviewing applications for new fixed-dose
and co-packaged HIV/AIDS drugs.
The Global Fund is financing a major scaling up of AIDS treatment in
over 100 developing countries, and simplified drug regimens play a crucial
role in ensuring rapid scale-up and compliance in resource-poor
settings. Fixed-dose combinations allow patients to reduce the number of
pills they have to take to as few as one pill twice per day.
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