We are increasingly concerned that after two years of importing the drug we have not been able to establish a reliable importation system. This seriously limits our ability to start new patients on the drug who need it as a matter of life and death, since we can't assure continuity of the supply.
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Drugs that do not work result in patients coming back to the clinic again with greater complications, such as a more severe form of the disease that often lead to death.
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With AIDS we saw what can be done when people start paying enough attention to a disease -- prices of AIDS drugs dropped from 15,000 to under 200. The same sense of urgency should be given to malaria.
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