JOHANNESBURG -- After months of official indecision over how to confront the epidemic ravaging South Africa , the government announced today that it would make critical drugs available to people who have H.I.V. or AIDS. In a deal signed today, World AIDS Day, the government agreed to accept a $50 million donation of th
It is a common assumption in these comfortable times that the primary role played by politically activist art in the United States tends to be neurotic, self-dramatizing personal venting. According to this smug, rose-colored view, such art may rarely accomplish anything concrete, but at least it releases the rage of ma
California company tried to block the publication of a scientific paper that showed its H.I.V. vaccine was not effective, and it has asked for damages of more than $7 million from the universities and researchers who published the findings. The company, the Immune Response Corporation of Carlsbad, Calif., makes Remune,
Dr. Gao Yaojie, who is fighting an AIDS epidemic in rural China . HENGZHOU, China — To celebrate the Moon Festival last month, a frail retired doctor named Gao Yaojie scraped together money to hire a taxi, packed it full of medicines, brochures, sweet drinks and cakes — and slipped off, once again, from this provincial
Using a new kind of vaccine, researchers report that they have been able to control a particularly lethal strain of AIDS virus in monkeys. The vaccine, made of DNA, did not prevent the animals from becoming infected, but it did prevent them from becoming ill, keeping the level of the virus so low that it was virtually
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 16 -- South Africa s President, Thabo Mbeki, who has confounded much of the world by challenging prevailing scientific thinking on AIDS, is stepping out of the messy debate he touched off earlier this year, the government s chief spokesman said today. For months, Mr. Mbeki has publicly questioned the
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