Then one-third of the group stayed on triple therapy.
"It's making triple therapy affordable to working people," she said.
Rogerio, who started taking triple therapy three weeks before I met him, has gotten much better.
Jerdinete and Emerson, on triple therapy for months, are doing fine.
A year and a half ago, practically nobody was talking about using triple therapy in poor countries.
We can all rejoice that children are, finally, getting regular supplies of their triple therapies.
Just nine months ago, people in the third world could expect to pay the same $10,000 for triple therapy that Americans pay.
In the developing world, Brazil is the only nation that provides free triple therapy to its people.
We would not be having this debate if triple therapy cost a dollar.
This "triple therapy" is becoming a standard in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.