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The Accelerated Approvals Process: Are Drugmakers Fulfilling Their Promises?

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Drugs - Were They Coming?

Activists were protesting because it seemed like the government and drug makers were completely ignoring the epidemic. In 19 88, he travelled with members of the l a chapter of the advocacy group act up to fta headquarters outside washington for one of the biggest protests yet. The activists were demanding that the agency get more v drugs on to the market and faster. So fast forward to 19 91, when a second h i v drug, named d d i one fda approval using a new approach. Oke instead of waiting to find out whether the patients taking the drug lived longer, they based its approval on something that took less time to study. He remembers doing these funeral slash protest marches down s

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