Analysis: Fight for Cheap Drugs Shifts from AIDS to New Hepatitis Pills

... address this? I hope we can learn from the lesson of HIV and find solutions without confrontations." In the 1990s, HIV/AIDS drugs costing more than $10,000 per patient a year were simply out of reach for millions of people in the developing world. ...

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