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Aspen to market last-resort Aids drug across Africa
Aspen plans to market a salvage treatment, Prezista, for Aids patients in 20 sub-Saharan African countries through a deal with Ireland's Tibotec Pharmaceuticals [a division of Johnson & Johnson (J&J)]...The deal was structured so that Aspen would market Prezista...on a cost recovery basis...Tibotec…will not earn anything...Salvage treatment is a last resort for Aids patients…[Senior executive of Aspen] Nicolaou, said: "In Africa only about 20 percent to 25 percent of the 6 million Africans who require treatment are receiving it…"...