Former President Bill Clinton announced new agreements today between his foundation, international drug organization UNITAID and generic manufacturers that will lower the price of second-line drugs in the developing world, as well reduce the price of a first-line, one-a-day AIDS drug to less than $1 per day. The price of the second-line treatments would drop by an average of 25 percent in low-income countries and 50 percent in middle-income countries.
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
