Patients who are taking the AIDS cocktail of antiviral drugs have been told that they may require such treatment indefinitely, perhaps for life.
Though AIDS cocktails aren't a cure, they are a very effective treatment.
The normal cost of the AIDS cocktail in the West is $10,000 to $15,000 a year.
These three drugs make up one common AIDS cocktail.
In the West, the AIDS cocktail usually costs $10,000 to $15,000 a year.
Hospitals, crippled by recent bungling of the national health budget, are taking children off their $10,000-a-year AIDS cocktails.
The cost of adding T-20 to an antiretroviral AIDS cocktail, however, could be more than $10,000 a year.
In India, a year of generic AIDS cocktail now costs about $300.
It costs him $5 a day, more than the AIDS cocktail in India.
It cannot use the AIDS cocktail, of course.