Aids Crisis

Seeking Covid Pills, Poor Nations Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis

The antivi­ral pills, plen­ti­ful in the Unit­ed States, are scarce over­seas. Health groups and the White House want to expand access but face obsta­cles that evoke the H.I.V. epi­dem­ic. WASHINGTON — A dev­as­tat­ing virus was lay­ing waste to nations that lacked med­i­cines avail­able to Amer­i­cans. The pills were patent­ed and pricey. Poor coun­tries lacked refrigeration…