NGOs plea for Kenyan AIDS victims

Non-governmental groups working with AIDS suffererers in Kenya have called for more transparency in price negotiations between big drugs companies and the Kenyan government.

The groups say drug companies failed to keep a promise made last year to reduce prices by up to eighty-five per-cent; instead they were offering price reductions to individual doctors. In what could become a test case in Kenya, the head of an orphanage that cares for HIV-positive children in Nairobi has said he will buy cheap anti-retroviral drugs from an Indian manufacturer.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service