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  • Russia slashes AIDS treatment costs by more than two-thirds

    03/31/2005 2:05:28 PM PST · by jb6 · 5 replies · 283+ views
    AFP ^ | Wed Mar 30, 9:05
    MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia has slashed the cost of AIDS treatment by more than two-thirds from 10,000 to 3,000 dollars after successful talks with multinational drug companies, Health Minister Mikhail Zurabov said. AFP/File Photo Yahoo! Health Have questions about your health? Find answers here. The country, which by most accounts has close to one million people infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS, hopes to cut treatment costs further, by one-half, he said at an international meeting here on the disease. "We are counting on reducing the costs to between 1,400 and 1,700 dollars (1,100-1,300 euros)," the minister, quoted by...