Former President Bill Clinton's foundation has negotiated significantly lower prices for AIDS tests and drugs. A group of four companies has agreed to provide HIV tests at a cost of 49 cents to 65 cents apiece while another group of drug makers will offer the AIDS drug efavirenz for a discount price of $240 per year. The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation has been brokering prices between drug makers and some 50 lesser-developed nations.

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PLUS: Roche says it will provide technical support to generic drug makers to help them manufacture saquinavir, a second-line HIV therapy. Report