Customs import duties on drugs and test kits for AIDS abolished by India
Q. For which disease Union Government on 11th June’15 scrapped customs import duties on drugs and test kits?- Published on 19 Jun 15a. Ebola
b. Hepatitis B
c. AIDS
d. Cancer
ANSWER: AIDS
The exemption would apply to certain first-line and second-line antiretroviral drugs (ARV) used to treat adults and children, as well as to certain diagnostic kits and equipment that are used by National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) to fight the HIV/AIDS under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).