Washington, Aug 5 : Former U. S. President Bill Clinton has announced initiatives that he said could immediately reduce AIDS-related infant mortality and, separately, extend affordable malaria treatment.
Speaking to two West African nations, Senegal and Liberia, Clinton said that hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by AIDS and malaria will be averted with better treatment programs.
He formally announced that his humanitarian foundation had helped negotiate a 30 percent reduction in the price of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), a malaria treatment.
Under the new agreement, manufacturers of ACT have agreed to lower the price in return for the stabilization of demand.