article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage caused controversy at the televised leaders’ debate by attacking the high cost of giving anti-retroviral drugs to sufferers not born in Britain .
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage caused controversy at the televised leaders’ debate last week by attacking the high cost of giving anti-retroviral drugs to sufferers not born in Britainthe high cost of giving anti-retroviral drugs to sufferers not born in BritainBritain.
article_snippet.sent: ‘can come into Britain from anywhere in the world and get diagnosed with HIV and get the retroviral drugs that cost up to £25,000 per patient’.
article_snippet.sent: The cost of anti-retroviral drugs per year gas been put at up to £16,000 depending on the stage of infection.
article_snippet.sent: but anybody can get on a plane from anywhere in the world, be HIV tested in London and receive antiretroviral drugs.
article_snippet.sent: Any foreign national - even a failed asylum seeker – who is diagnosed, has been entitled to free treatment since 2012 due to what experts say are the risks of allowing the virus to spread.
article_snippet.sent: Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip’s economics spokesman, said in an interview on Sky News yesterday that Ukip were not seeking to withdraw treatment from HIV positive foreign nationals already receiving drugs from the NHS.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage attacked high cost of giving anti-retroviral drugs to non-British sufferers .
  