Article: Selection of antiretroviral medications provided under U.S. emergency plan is limited.(NewsWire)

In a study of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a 5-year, $15 billion initiative under the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, GAO compared the selection of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) provided under the plan with that provided under other major treatment initiatives, compared the prices of those selections, and determined what the Coordinator's Office is doing to expand the plan's selection of quality' assured lower-priced ARVs. Treatment regimens use multiple ARVs, which can be original or generic. Fixed-dose combinations (FDC) combine two or three ARVs into one pill. The GAO found that the Emergency Plan provides a smaller selection of ...