Clinton urges easier AIDS drugs policy.
NEW DELHI New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. -- Former President Bill Clinton Clinton.
1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. said in India the U.S. needs to be more flexible in allowing dollars allocated for AIDS prevention to be spent on lower-cost generic drugs generic drug, a drug sold or prescribed under the nonproprietary name of its active ingredients or under a generally descriptive name rather than under a brand or trade name. , and American drug companies "have been too harsh" in lobbying for restrictions on the use of that money. Clinton, in response to a question, said he would "do the very best I can" to try to persuade American drugmakers to grant licenses to Indian generic drug manufacturers.
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