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>> CHAI in the News
07/22/07: President Clinton Launches Pilot ACT Subsidy to Improve Malaria Treatment in Tanzania
05/08/07: Clinton Foundation and UNITAID Announce Price Reductions on 16 AIDS Medicines for 66 Developing Countries
05/08/07: Next Generation AIDS Treatment Now Less than One Dollar a Day
12/06/06: Clinton Signs Pledge in Hanoi
12/06/06: Clinton Urges End to HIV/AIDS Stigma in Vietnam

Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative

On May 8th, President Clinton announced a major victory in ensuring people living with HIV/AIDS in poor and middle income countries can access the highest quality treatment available. CHAI, in partnership with UNITAID has reached an agreement with with leading pharmaceutical manufacturers Cipla and Matrix, resulting in major price reductions for 16 medicines critical to fighting HIV/AIDS. Included in this agreement are reduced prices for both second-line medicines and a “gold-standard” one-pill, once-daily first-line medicine.

Poor countries around the globe struggle to afford the cost of high-quality treatment for patients in need. In middle income countries, in Latin America and Asia treatment is much more expensive than in low income countries. But people living with HIV/AIDS in those countries are no less in need. It is CHAI’s objective to ensure patients have access regardless of where they live. Today’s agreement is another important step towards making equal access to treatment a reality.

This agreement is one in a series of price reductions CHAI has helped champion since 2002. Reducing the price of medicines is a key component to reaching CHAI’s goal of making high-quality treatment equally available to people in need across the developing world. In order to curb this pandemic, the best treatment and technology science has to offer should be available to everyone, and all drugs needed to fight HIV/AIDS must be available to the two million people now on treatment in developing countries – and the five million more still waiting for access around the world.

>> Download Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative Overview
>> Download the latest ARV Price List

Spotlight
Photograph of Shaibu Musa, who's receiving help from CHAI
Success Stories: Shaibu and Juana

Meet two patients, Shaibu Musa and Juana Zorilla, who live on opposite sides of the world, but are receiving help through the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative.
>>Read about CHAI's Success Stories


Photograph of President Clinton meeting a baby at a Cambodian orphanage.
President Clinton in Asia

President Clinton announces a breakthrough in HIV/AIDS treatment for children during his trip to Asia.
>>Read about the treatment announcement
>>Learn about President Clinton's Asia Trip

Photograph of President Clinton speaking at the World Aids Conference 2006
Credit: Lise Beaudry, IAS
Need More Action in the Fight Against AIDS
President Clinton announced at the XVI International AIDS Conference the establishment of a new “Consortium for Strategic HIV Operations Research”. The group's mission is encourage efficient use of resources in AIDS treatment and prevention.
>>Read about the Consortium
>>Speech: International AIDS Conference 2006
>>Transcript: Priorities in Ending the AIDS Epidemic, a forum with
President Clinton and Bill Gates


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