Record #:

26978

Author(s):

Yeoman, Barry

Abstract:

Burroughs Wellcome Company discovered that the drug AZT can prolong the lives of many people with AIDS, but at an annual cost of about ten-thousand dollars per patient. North Carolina has a share of the federal safety-net program to help AIDS patients who can’t afford AZT. Others who are without federal aid are organizing boycotts against Burroughs and considering lawsuits.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 6 Issue 7, Apr 7-20 1988, p7, il

Subject(s):

AIDS (Disease)--Patients; AIDS (Disease) vaccines; Burroughs Wellcome Co.; Pharmaceutical industry