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Contributor [1]
Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
116 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The unregulated supply of AIDS drugs in the developing world could accelerate the development of drug-resistant HIV strains, according to an expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. Better regulation of private-sector providers of drugs in poor nations is needed to ensure that patients use antiretroviral drugs correctly, thereby reducing the risk that a strain of drug-resistant HIV will develop.

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Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/15883 [5]

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