Plant biotechnology offers a number of advantages that may help break the link between HIV and malaria, principally by providing safe and inexpensive systems to produce small-molecule drugs and recombinant pharmaceutical proteins. As discussed above, both HIV and malaria are poverty-related diseases, which therefore disproportionately affect the people least able to afford prophylactics and drugs. This is particularly the case for biopharmaceuticals such as recombinant antibodies that are currently produced in expensive fermenter-based systems and must be supplied as a finished product thus requiring an established and stable cold chain.