Expensive Drugs Hinder Brazil's Fight Against HIV
A nurse sorts anti-HIV medication pills for patients.
Photographer: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty ImagesHi, this is Cristina in New York City. It’s getting chilly here so I want to send you to Brazil, where pharmaceutical companies are blocking competition from generic versions of their high-priced HIV drugs. But before we get to that...
“I started my treatment with Brazilian generics in 1997,” says Veriano Terto Jr., “and because of them I am alive.”