Press Releases

September 23, 2008
Canadian-Made Life Saving HIV/AIDS Drug Heading To Africa
Toronto, ON (September 23, 2008) — Apotex Inc, the largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce that Apo-TriAvir, a triple combination HIV/AIDS drug, approved under Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), is ready to ship to Rwanda, the only country to make a request through a program tender process. The first shipment of seven million tablets, which will help save the lives of 21,000 people, is scheduled to leave from Toronto on September 24th, 2008. Apotex is doing this on a humanitarian, not-for-profit basis.