CORRECTION: The article misidentified a drug in two of the WHO s recommended combinations for treatment. It is nevirapine , not nelfinavir. The World Health Organization called on developing countries yesterday to train and organize 100,000 health care and nonprofessional workers to carry out its plan to
NEW DELHI - India has decided to expand substantially its program to provide antiretroviral therapy to people with H.I.V. and AIDS, government officials say. By April of 2004, the government hopes to begin providing free antiretroviral therapy to all H.I.V.-positive new parents, all children under 15, in the six states
The New York Times - Monday, December 1, 2003, Monday
SOUTH AFRICA: CONCERT FOR AIDS -- A duet between Bono and Beyoncé was the highlight of a Saturday concert for AIDS attended by more than 40,000 people in Cape Town. They sang American Prayer, accompanied by the guitarists the Edge (of U2) and Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics). Bono said the song asked churches to open their
Scientists who study AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases say they have been warned by federal health officials that their research may come under unusual scrutiny by the Department of Health and Human Services or by members of Congress, because the topics are politically controversial. The scientists, who spok
KAMPALA, Uganda - Rebecca Nakabazzi s son Julius is about to become an AIDS orphan. Right now the shy 11-year-old lives at home with Ms. Nakabazzi, who is frail and feverish but still very much a doting mother. But all too soon -- it could be weeks or months or even years -- she will die and the number of AIDS orphans
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced yesterday that it would give $60 million to the International Partnership for Microbicides, a nonprofit organization dedicated to speeding the development and distribution of topical means of preventing H.I.V. transmission like foams or gels. The grant is the largest ever
Why does no one have the courage to say loudly and unequivocally that 50 million people around the world are going to die in a matter of days or months or at the most a few years unless they are treated immediately with the life-saving drugs that are now available? I have arrived at this figure after conversations with
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Marva Johnson was thrilled when her longtime boyfriend, Randy Vallad, was paroled from prison in 1999. They went back to living together, and once when he had a bad cut on his head, she took care of him. She was splattered with his blood, but the couple did not think anything of it at the time.
WASHINGTON - Jerry Thacker, a Christian conservative who has called AIDS the gay plague, withdrew his nomination to the Presidential Advisory Council on H.I.V. and AIDS today under pressure from the Department of Health and Human Services, a senior administration official said. Mr. Thacker is a marketing consultant fro
A coalition of media companies is introducing a public-awareness campaign meant to help slow the spread of H.I.V. and AIDS among African-Americans through testing and prevention. The campaign is called the Drumbeat Project and will employ advertising and articles. It will begin in February, which is Black History Month
GUANGZHOU, China - They consider themselves a family, though they are not related by blood. Like any family, all they want is a place to call home. But for the last four months they have been forced to flee from house to apartment, from neighborhood to neighborhood, evicted from every temporary residence they have mana
South Africa , cursed with a history of causes worth dying for, is blessed with men and women willing to die for them. To that list now add Zackie Achmat. Mr. Achmat, 40, is South Africa s most prominent AIDS activist, and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign. He found out that he was H.I.V. positive in 1990, an
WASHINGTON - When Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, travels to southern Africa next week, new free trade agreements will take up most of his agenda. But he will be met by activists in street protests and officials in conference rooms who will be asking tough questions about American
Three thousand years ago an amorous Egyptian couple (probably libidinous liberals) experimented with a linen pouch, producing the world s first known condom. Some right-wingers still haven t gotten over it. Over the last few years conservative groups in President Bush s support base have declared war on condoms, in a c
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