Schoolchildren have created a $ 2 750 dollar equivalent drug

Students from Australia have synthesized an analogue of the expensive drug Daraprim, the cost of which should not exceed $ 2. The original drug Daraprim sells for $ 750. Euronews told how scary students managed to achieve such a breakthrough. “There was a lot of trial and error. There was a process. We had to repeat a lot ...

"Drug Buyer Clubs" are gaining popularity

Due to high prices for antiviral drugs, thousands of patients in London, Moscow and Sydney are turning to popular online shopping clubs to order cheap generics for the treatment of hepatitis C and HIV. Regulators, in turn, warn about the risks when buying drugs through ...

New York's 'most despised businessman' arrested

The head of the New York pharmaceutical company Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, Martin Shkreli, who earlier this year acquired a drug for HIV patients and raised its price by 5,5 thousand percent, was arrested on suspicion of fraud. Bloomberg writes about this with reference to its own sources. The man was detained ...

Russian host announced himself HIV-infected live

On World AIDS Day, the host of the Russian Dozhd TV channel, Pavel Lobkov, told on the air of the Moscow Says radio station that he had HIV in order to rid people of the fear of HIV-infected people. “I decided because it's now or never. A moment comes in life ...

Many Americans with HIV do not know that they are infected

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials report that many Americans are unaware that they are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Studies have been conducted, during which it was found that of the 1,2 million Americans who are infected with HIV, ...

List of cities in Moldova with a high level of AIDS

Doctors in Moldova are sounding the alarm. According to the National Center for Public Health, the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS is growing. And the city of Balti is in the lead on this list. According to statistics, last year in Moldova over 830 people were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS - 125 more than last year...

HIV-infected people live longer than before

  Overall, life expectancy for HIV-positive adults in Australia, the European Union and the United States has increased by an order of magnitude over the past fifteen years. Deaths among HIV-positive people in these countries have decreased by 28% since 1999. AIDS-related deaths fell by ...

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