Drug firms to make Aids drugs cheaper: Annan

Six of the world leading pharmaceutical companies have agreed to make retroviral drugs for HIV/Aids affordable in developing nations, Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General said yesterday. "We agreed that they will reduce the prices quite considerably and some have cut it back by 80, 90%," Annan told a news conference in Nigeria on the sideline of a two-day African Summit on HIV/Aids, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.