REDUCED PRICE AIDS DRUGS

Former President Bill Clinton is expected to announce today that his nonprofit organization, the William J. Clinton Foundation, has secured price discounts on additional medicines for AIDS patients in the developing world and for HIV test kits, reports The Wall Street Journal. The price reductions cover the drugs efavirenz and abacavir, two drugs that are usually used by patients already resistant to first-line medications or those who have developed intolerable side effects. The organization worked to lower prices by helping drug companies acquire cheaper ingredients to manufacture the drugs. More than 240,000 people in developing countries receive drugs though the charity’s agreements.