KUALA LUMPUR: New potentially life-saving human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drugs are “beyond reach” due to restrictive patents, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday, even though basic medication for the disease has become cheaper.

The international medical humanitarian organization said it was good news that the price of drugs used as first- and second-line treatments had fallen by 19 and 28 percent respectively since last year.

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