Ranbaxy withdraws AIDS drugs from WHO list
from Reuters:
Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the U.N.'s approved list, the World Health Organization said on Nov. 9, 2004, dealing a blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available to treat AIDS.
The United Nation's health agency said the company took the step voluntarily after discovering "discrepancies" in tests done to show the antiretrovirals were equivalent to brand-name drugs.
The Geneva-based agency had already announced in August that it was dropping three generic HIV/AIDS drugs produced by the firm, India's largest pharmaceutical company by sales.
"Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited has informed the World Health Organization that it is voluntarily withdrawing all its antiretrovirals," WHO said in a statement.
Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the U.N.'s approved list, the World Health Organization said on Nov. 9, 2004, dealing a blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available to treat AIDS.
The United Nation's health agency said the company took the step voluntarily after discovering "discrepancies" in tests done to show the antiretrovirals were equivalent to brand-name drugs.
The Geneva-based agency had already announced in August that it was dropping three generic HIV/AIDS drugs produced by the firm, India's largest pharmaceutical company by sales.
"Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited has informed the World Health Organization that it is voluntarily withdrawing all its antiretrovirals," WHO said in a statement.
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