Antifungals

Cryptococcal meningitis: treatment needs to be cheaper and more available

Treatment for a common AIDS-related infection, crypotococcal meningitis, is still out of reach and too expensive in many countries, say doctors from South Africa and Londons St Georges Hospital in a letter published in the September edition of Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Pfizer Offers AIDS Drug to South Africa

Pfizer is expected to announce on December 1, World AIDS Day, that it will donate $50 million worth of its antifungal drug Diflucan, which is used by many AIDS patients, to South Africa over two years.