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| July 12, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Thai Press Reports)

Section: General News - Thailand's Food And Drug Administration has urged the government to offer AIDs patients more choice of cheaper generic anti-retroviral drugs.

Thailand should be able to produce a wider variety of anti-AIDs drugs, Dr Supachai Kunarattanapruek, the Thai FDA secretary-general told TNA.

He said the two ARV drugs -- Kaletra and Efcvirenz -- would suit Thai patients who had developed a resistance to GPO-VIR, the anti-AIDS drugs cocktails that has been made available locally. They may also be better suited for those patients have suffered side effects from taking the drugs, he said.

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