Clinton Strikes Deal for AIDS Drugs

For years the GOP has been defaming Clinton. Saying that he was a bad president, because he slept with an intern. I'll tell you what, I'd rather have a President that screws an intern than one that screws the country.

That's all they can blame him for, sleeping with an intern. That's all. Clinton created jobs, balanced the budget and left office with a surplus. What did Bush do? He gave it away and now we are drowning in the biggest deficit in this country's history. Can they blame Clinton for that? I'm sure they're trying.

Lets see them try to insult him for this.

Karen Matthews of the Associated Press writes:

Former President Clinton announced Thursday that his foundation has negotiated agreements to lower the prices of rapid
HIV tests and anti-AIDS drugs in the developing world, potentially saving "hundreds of thousands of lives."

Under the agreement, four companies will offer the tests for 49 cents to 65 cents apiece, slicing the cost of a diagnosis in half. Four more companies will provide the antiretroviral drugs efavirenz and abacavir at prices about 30 percent less than the current market rates, Clinton said.

"Too many people die because they can't afford or don't have access to the drugs," Clinton said at his office in Harlem. "Too many people are being infected because most of the people who have the virus today have not been tested."

The products and prices will be available in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Clinton said the availability of quick HIV tests at half their current cost should mean many more people will get tested.

"I hope that the availability of these low-cost testing and the quickness of the response will encourage employers all over the world, especially in the high infection rate countries, and schools, governments and others to take advantage of this," he said.

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