21.   The subject was helping people afford prescription drugs.

22.   The tension over who would do more to help people afford prescription drugs is part of a bigger battle for dominance on health care.

23.   These ailments go untreated or badly treated not just because the poor cannot afford the drugs they need, but because the drugs themselves do not exist.

24.   We could afford the drugs for maybe one month or two.

25.   Yet effective vaccines do not exist, in part because most of the victims live in poverty and cannot afford drugs.

26.   Our members know what it means to not be able to afford lifesaving drugs.

27.   Most HIV-positive South Africans cannot afford the drugs that could prolong their lives.

28.   The conference heard that most Africans cannot afford antiretroviral drugs to treat the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

29.   The vast majority of those infected in Africa and other developing regions cannot afford the drugs that are prolonging life among AIDS patients in the West.