From FIONA BOWMAN
I think alpha interferon is not cheap because it costs 58 Pounds for
a bottle which gives me two day’s doses (‘Canada to test Kenya’s disputed
HIV drug’, This Week, 12 January). And I don’t think it is exactly readily
available because the chemist has to keep writing to different places to
get it. I have to inject it every day to treat the condition resulting from
Philadelphia Chromosome. I wish it could be given by mouth, but the doctor
says it doesn’t work.
Fiona Bowman (age 10) Haverhill Suffolk
