Glaxo Smith Kline. (World's Health).
Drug company Glaxo Smith Kline announced it is cutting by nearly 50
percent the price of its Combivir Combivir is the brand name for a pharmaceutical treatment for HIV infection. It is a fixed dose combination of two antiretroviral drugs, lamivudine (also called 3TC, with the brand name Epivir) and zidovudine (also called AZT, with the brand name Retrovir ). HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome treatment in 63 of the
world's least developed countries, including in sub-Saharan sub-Sa·har·an
adj.
Of, relating to, or situated in the region of Africa south of the Sahara.
Adj. 1. sub-Saharan - of or relating to or situated in the region south of the Sahara Desert Africa,
the world's hardest-hit region.
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