TOWARDS AFFORDABLE TREATMENT: The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation has signed an agreement with generic drug manufacturers that could lead to the prices of anti-AIDS medicines falling radically for Indian patients.

The former US president painted the horrors of the deadly disease around the world. He said: "Over 890,000 school children lost their teachers" in South Africa to AIDS.

Clinton also told about how the death of a friend, whom he lost to AIDS in the mid-80s, had changed his life forever.

(L) Clinton with Ranbaxy Laboratories CEO D S Brar, in Gurgaon.

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