1. Given the poor quality of service in the public sector, the HIV / AIDS affected should be switching to private initiatives that supply antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) at a low cost.
2. The government has been supplying free drugs since 2004, and up to now 35,000 have benefited, though the size of the affected population is 150 times this number.
3. The recent initiatives of networks and companies like AIDS Care Network, Emcure, Reliance-Cipla-CII, would lead to availability of much-needed drugs to a larger number of affected people.
4. But how ironic it is that we should face a perennial shortage of drugs when India is one of the world's largest suppliers of generic drugs to the developing world.
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