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The Associated Press - Tuesday, November 12, 1996.
The latest innovation in AIDS therapy, ``cocktails'', are made up of two AIDS medicines plus protease inhibitors, which together can significantly reduce levels of the AIDS virus in patients' blood and prolong the lives of people with symptoms of AIDS and those who are HIV-positive.
The anti-AIDS cocktail costs around $800 a month -- in a country where about two-thirds of the population makes less than $336 a month.
The joint state and federal program will initially reach some 12,000 AIDS victims in Sao Paulo state and could eventually reach some 30,000 people around the country.
The federal government has agreed to pick up 70 percent of the cost, but has yet to come up with the funds.
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