India to add more AIDS, TB drugs in essential medicines list: Sources

India to add more AIDS, TB drugs in essential medicines list: Sources

MUMBAI: India is likely to add more HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis drugs to its list of essential medicines that are subject to price caps, people directly involved in the process said, in a move to improve affordability of drugs to treat the deadly diseases.

All the drugs on the government’s HIV/AIDS and TB control programmes are likely to be added in the list, the people said.

India provides a number of key HIV/AIDS and TB medicines for free under the government’s disease control programmes through state-run clinics and distribution centres.