The international AIDS conference highlighted the substantialprogress that Thailand has made in reducing the frequency ofmother-to-child transmission of HIV and providing antiretroviraltreatment. Now, Krisana Kraisintu, the Thai pharmaceutical chemistwho helped to spearhead her nation's response to AIDS, has embarkedon a self-assigned mission to bring affordable antiretroviraltreatment to three African countries.
Kraisintu is the former director of the Research and DevelopmentInstitute of the Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO)in Thailand and a pioneer in the production of generic antiretroviralmedications. In 1995, she brought antiretroviral treatment toThailand by producing zidovudine to protect newborns . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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