The pills cost $8 each, which at the time was twice what the Ugandan Government spent on public health per capita each year.

A pill costs only a few dollars, compared with a few hundred dollars for a surgical abortion.

The treatment has an extremely high street value of a dollar a milligram; a single 40-milligram pill would cost $40.

Birth-control pills cost $15 to $30 a month.

Each $3 pill, she says, costs about 10 to 15 cents to manufacture.

The pills cost about $1.50 to $2 a day.

(In 1983, when only one company made them, the pills cost $4.44 each at pharmacy prices.)

The commission has apparently spent more on considering whether to pay for the pills than on what the pills themselves would cost.

In Lebanon, condoms cost 20 percent of a person's income for a year, and pills cost about 14 percent.

Any day now, India's going to manufacture the generic version and the same pill will cost sixty cents.