2001

Mbeki Urges South Africa to Stop Wave of Baby Rapes: Reuters NewMedia - Friday December 28, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki used his New Year s message on Friday to call on South Africans to stop a wave of rapes of babies and children. As the year came to its end, we concentrated on rape and in particular the rape of children and infants. This demands that everybody should be involved in fighti
Zambia's Tembo Promises Cheaper AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 27, 2001; Manoah Esipisu; MAKENI, Zambia (Reuters) - Zambian presidential contender Christon Tembo tried to woo voters on the eve of Thursday s poll with a promise of cheaper AIDS drugs to help combat the epidemic that is decimating the professional class. Tembo said his Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) would boost the fight against HI
Controversy simmers over "too healthy" AIDS ads: Reuters NewMedia - Friday December 21, 2001; Christopher Michaud; NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, patient advocates lobbied hard -- and for the most part, successfully -- to dispel the image of AIDS and HIV patients as helpless victims. Some 20 years after the disease burst onto the scene, activists may have the opposite problem. They are now work
WHO Launches Health Aid Blueprint for Poor Nations: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 20, 2001; Christopher Noble and Patricia Reaney; BOSTON (Reuters) - Rich countries must spend an additional $38 billion a year on health aid by 2015 to break a cycle of disease, war and poverty in the world s poorest countries, according to a report launched on Thursday. The extra money would save 8 million lives each year, said the report by 18 of the world s top ec
WHO Urges Massive Health Aid for Poor Nations: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 20, 2001; Christopher Noble; BOSTON (Reuters) - The world s rich countries must spend an additional $38 billion a year on health aid by 2015 to break a devastating cycle of disease, war and poverty that grips the globe s least-developed economies, a World Health Organization panel reported Thursday. That new money, six times more than current expe
South Africa Government to Appeal AIDS Case Ruling: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday December 19, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa s government said Wednesday it would appeal a high court ruling that HIV-positive pregnant women are entitled to a drug found to reduce a newborn s risk of contracting the virus. We have instructed our legal counsel to appeal the judgement to the Constitutional Court on this matter
Roche presents promising studies on HIV drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 18, 2001; ZURICH, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Swiss drug firm Roche said on Tuesday that it had presented new studies showing promising results of two experimental and one approved HIV drug at a conference in Chicago. A spokesman said in reply to queries that a study on novel fusion inhibitor T-20 showed expected results and good toleran
Three-quarters new US HIV cases resist drugs-study: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 18, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - More than three-quarters of all U.S. patients with the AIDS virus have an infection that resists one or more of the drugs used to treat it, researchers reported on Tuesday. They said the grim news meant that drug-resistant HIV had spread even faster than was feared, and the lifesaving coc
Ivory Coast's Prostitutes Learn to Live with AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday December 15, 2001; Silvia Aloisi; DALOA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - You can have her body for just over a dollar but no amount of money could persuade Joanna to have sex without a condom, or at least that s what she says. A beautiful 18-year-old with big, velvet eyes, Joanna is one of a group of AIDS-savvy prostitutes working at the Bataclan, a brothel in
South African Activists Win AIDS Drug Case: Reuters NewMedia - Friday December 14, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African activists won an important court ruling Friday in their campaign to force a reluctant government to help HIV-positive pregnant women save their babies from AIDS. Pretoria High Court Judge Chris Botha ruled that the government was obliged to provide the AIDS drug
Elton John Puckers Up to Model Lipstick: Reuters NewMedia - Friday December 14, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - He s hardly cover model material, but flamboyant pop legend Elton John is to pucker up as the face of a new lipstick. The British singer, never one to shy away from outrageous behavior, will help promote cosmetic company MAC s new Viva Glam IV, the latest in a line of lipsticks sold to raise money fo
Gene Therapy Shown to Help Sickle Cell Patients: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 13, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers using a gutted AIDS virus and a custom-made gene said on Thursday they had corrected sickle cell anemia in mice and that the approach holds promise for people. If so, gene therapy could be used to treat one of the most common genetic diseases. But the researchers, who published their
Clinton Says Time Running Out in War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 13, 2001; Jeremy Lovell; LONDON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Thursday no one was immune to the AIDS epidemic sweeping the planet and called for innovative and urgent solutions to avert a catastrophe. Unless we deal aggressively with AIDS now it will make us all poorer and less secure, he told a packed auditorium as he
S.Africa's Gold Fields agrees workplace AIDS deal: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday December 12, 2001; JOHANNESBURG, Dec 12 (Reuters) - South African miner Gold Fields Ltd , facing a growing AIDS crisis, said on Wednesday it had ratified a deal with unions to combat the disease that affects at least one in four of its 50,000 workers. Gold Fields -- the country s second biggest gold producer -- said the agreed workplace
Ivory Coast's Prostitutes Learn to Live with AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday December 12, 2001; Silvia Aloisi; DALOA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - You can have her body for just over a dollar but no amount of money could persuade Joanna to have sex without a condom, or at least that s what she says. A beautiful 18-year-old with big, velvet eyes, Joanna is one of a group of AIDS-savvy prostitutes working at the Bataclan, a brothel in
UN: Africa Needs $5 Billion a Year to Fight AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 11, 2001; Mathieu Bonkoungou; OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Africa needs $5 billion a year to fight AIDS -- 10 times the amount currently being spent on combating the disease, the head of the United Nations AIDS group said. In Africa it would require $5 billion to organize effective prevention, to care for people living with HIV and to support AIDS orpha
Study: Teens Turn to Web for Health-Related Issues: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 11, 2001; Reshma Kapadia; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Teens and young adults are flocking to the Web for health-related information as much as they are downloading music and playing games online and more often than shopping online, according to a national survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation released on Tuesday. A survey conducted by the foundatio
Drugmaker Plans Human Trials of New HIV Treatment: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 11, 2001; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. said on Tuesday it plans human trials next year of a new treatment against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, describing it as a potential breakthrough medicine. Merck, speaking to analysts and investors in a meeting at company headquarters in Whitehouse Station, New Je
US Foundations Start Mother-Child AIDS Project: Reuters NewMedia - Monday December 10, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - US foundations announced on Friday a $100 million project to study and treat mothers who are at risk for passing HIV to their unborn children or to infants through breast feeding. The program, expected to last two to three years and operate mainly in Africa, would attach itself to 100 sites w
South Africa Reels From Horror of Baby Rapes: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 6, 2001; Wambui Chege; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Just what sort of person rapes a baby girl? This is a question shocked South Africans are asking after a spate of baby rapes. All the victims are girls and the most recent attack, last weekend, was on a five-month-old. Anti-rape activists citing police statistics say a woman is raped every 26 s
Hong Kong AIDS Group Makes Video on HIV Dangers: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday December 6, 2001; Chee-may Chow; HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong AIDS awareness group has launched the most candid publicity campaign yet in the territory--an explicit video about the dangers of having sex with prostitutes across the border in mainland China . The film s graphic language and scenes were a deliberate attem
Agriculture Seen Key to Winning War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday December 5, 2001; David Brough; ROME (Reuters) - Agricultural development is key to winning the war on AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa as grinding poverty is fueling prostitution and worsening the pandemic, delegates at a United Nations seminar said on Wednesday. People who have enough food do not need to sell their body to get food that day, Marcela Vill
South Africans Protest Rape of Five-Month-Old Baby: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 4, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An angry crowd hung a washing line of blood-stained diapers outside a South African court on Tuesday in outrage over the rape of a five-month-old baby at the weekend. The rape is the latest in a growing number of infant-rapes, fueled by a myth that sex with a virgin will cure a man of HIV /AIDS
Drug Addicts in Fresh Rehab Breakout: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 4, 2001; HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam s efforts to clear its streets of drug addicts ran into further problems last week when inmates at a drug rehabilitation center staged the second mass breakout in the country in less than two weeks. Officials in the southern coastal town of Nha Trang said 19 addicts broke out of a center there
Ethiopian Opposition Blasts Govt. AIDS Program: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday December 4, 2001; ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian opposition parties dismissed the country s HIV/AIDS program as ineffective on Tuesday and called on the government to declare a state of emergency to stop the spread of the disease. An estimated 3 million Ethiopians are believed to be HIV-positive, making the Horn of Africa country one
Week On, Week Off Might Help AIDS Patients -Report: Reuters NewMedia - Monday December 3, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Letting patients with HIV take their medicines on a one-week-on, one-week-off schedule might save some money and might help reduce side-effects, researchers said on Monday. They said such a regime -- carefully monitored by an expert doctor -- worked to control the AIDS virus well. Patients could
Malawi Says It Will Cut AIDS Drugs Prices by 20%: Reuters NewMedia - Monday December 3, 2001; LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi s government said on Monday it would slash the price of antiretroviral AIDS drugs by at least 20% early next year to make them more affordable for an estimated one million Malawians living with the disease. The cost of a month s supply of the drugs will go down again by April. They should go
In China, Heroin Drawn to Cities: Reuters NewMedia - Monday December 3, 2001; John Ruwitch; BEIJING (Reuters) - It didn t take long for the clean-cut Beijing real estate broker to get hooked on heroin after a friend introduced him to it this year. I was curious, explained Li Qiang, who injected the drug from the start and was soon shooting up two or three times a day, spending about $97 a week to feed his hab
AIDS Drugs Prices in China to Be Slashed: Reuters NewMedia - Monday December 3, 2001; Tamora Vidaillet; BEIJING (Reuters) - Drug giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and GlaxoSmithKline are preparing to slash the prices of their HIV drugs in China as the country faces up to the prospect of a major epidemic, industry sources said on Monday. Squibb is drawing up formal documents to lower the price of its two HIV drugs sold
Botswana HIV Lab Aims to Finish Trials in 5 Years: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday December 1, 2001; GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana President Festus Mogae dedicated a $6 million AIDS laboratory on Saturday -- designated World Aids Day -- which is expected to complete trials of an HIV vaccine within five years. The project is a joint venture between the Botswana government, the pharmaceutical companies
China Ends AIDS Silence: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday December 1, 2001; Jeremy Laurence; LONDON (Reuters) - A veil of secrecy still shrouds AIDS in some countries 20 years after it first reared its head but on Saturday China , the latest convert to openness, marked World AIDS Day by airing a shocking TV drama on the disease. In South Africa , where more people live with HIV/AIDS than in any other countr
World AIDS Day: Mandela Calls for Drugs, Leadership: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday December 1, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela called on Saturday for AIDS victims to be given access to drugs that fight the disease and said heads of state must take the lead in raising awareness of the illness. Nothing threatens us more today than HIV/AIDS...AIDS is a scourge threatening to undo
Suffer South Africa's AIDS Children: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday December 1, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - There isn t even enough money to bury the dead AIDS orphans at the Cotlands baby sanctuary. Instead the ashes of 23 babies, the youngest just a month old, will be interned at a painful and moving memorial in a modest Johannesburg cemetery on Friday ahead of World AIDS Day. It will bring a digni
Young HIV Patient Fights Youth Complacency in US: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; Claire Soares; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Promise contracted HIV at age 16 when her first boyfriend raped her. But all she could think about as her doctor diagnosed the illness were her plans to party that night. Six years later, it is this memory that spurs her on as she travels the country with her braided hair and short skirts, trying
Thais Rally for Cheap Access to AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; BANGKOK (Reuters) - Over 1,000 HIV-positive Thais rallied outside parliament on Friday, demanding cheaper access to anti-AIDS drugs and protesting against their exclusion from government-subsidised medical care. Dressed in yellow and waving banners reading we are being discriminated against , the protesters asked to be
Nigeria Has 8.7% of World AIDS Cases--Officials: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; LAGOS (Reuters) - Nearly one in 11 of the world s 40 million people infected with HIV/AIDS are in Nigeria , Nigerian government figures showed on Friday. Nigeria has 3.47 million cases, some 8.7% of the global total estimated by the United Nations. Government officials said the number of cases in Nigeria had risen from
Ex-envoy Holbrooke enlists firms in AIDS fight: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; Jean Scheidnes; NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - An anti-AIDS group headed by former U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke urged corporations on Friday to do more to combat the disease among their own staff, particularly in Africa. We re asking companies to take greater responsibility for their own workplace first, Holbrooke, instrumental in
Ill-Equipped Nigeria on Threshold of AIDS Disaster: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; LAGOS (Reuters) - Georgina Ahanefule was on the brink of death a year ago when a U.S. charity sent her new life in the form of AIDS drugs she could never afford in Nigeria . I was very, very sick last December, Ahanefule said. If I stood, a breeze would blow me over. The hopes of 3.47 million Nigerians, like Ahanefule,
AIDS, Ebola Use Same Mechanism to Spread - Study: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The viruses that cause AIDS and Ebola, two deadly, contagious and highly feared diseases, spread through the body using the same mechanism, U.S.-based researchers said on Friday. The researchers, led by Dr. Paul Bieniasz of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at New York s Rockefeller Universi
Drug Company Cuts AIDS Drug Prices in S. Africa: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 30, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Europe s biggest drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will slash 20% off the price of two key AIDS drugs in South Africa starting next year, the company said on Friday. The discount on 3TC (lamivudine) and
U.S. Epimmune, Dane Bavarian enter HIV vaccine pact: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 29, 2001; COPENHAGEN, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Danish biotech firm Bavarian Nordic and U.S. Epimmune Inc. (NasdaqNM:EPMN) said on Thursday they entered a collaboration agreement to combine technologies to develop vaccines for the treatment of HIV infection. The pact could eventually lead to a merger, the Danish company s chief executi
China Might Try AIDS Vaccine on Humans: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 29, 2001; BEIJING (Reuters) - China could begin human testing of a potential HIV vaccine by the end of next year, a leading Chinese scientist said on Thursday. If Chinese drug authorities approve the tests on the serum, developed at the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine together with the University of Regensburg in
AIDS Orphans Confront 'Silent Genocide' in Rwanda: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 29, 2001; David Mageria; KIGALI (Reuters) - Scores of young Rwandan boys and girls crowd into a dimly lit classroom and painstakingly put the finishing touches to paintings daubed on worn-out pieces of brown paper. Many are AIDS orphans, learning the skills to cope with the legacy of an epidemic made harsher by the devastating impact of the co
World AIDS Epidemic on Rise; E.Europe Cases Swell: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 28, 2001; Clara Ferreira-Marques; MOSCOW (Reuters) - AIDS is continuing its grim march around the planet, with countries of the former Soviet bloc now facing the world s fastest growing infection rate, a United Nations report said Wednesday. An estimated one million people in Russia , other countries of the former Soviet Union and ex-communist states i
U.S. Syphilis Rate Drops to All-Time Low-Officials: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 28, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - The rate of syphilis infection in the United States fell to an all-time low last year, bolstering hopes the potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease can be eliminated, federal health officials reported on Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed the decline to an on
Prejudice, Discrimination Haunt AIDS Sufferers: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 27, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Twenty years into the AIDS epidemic, HIV sufferers in Britain still face prejudice and discrimination, AIDS activists said on Wednesday. A review by the Terrence Higgins Trust charity of AIDS research showed that one in five people with HIV have encountered discrimination during the last 12 months.
Forget Bin Laden, Fight AIDS, Cameroon Tells West: Reuters NewMedia - November 27, 2001; YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The West should mobilize a worldwide campaign against AIDS similar to the international coalition against Osama bin Laden, Cameroon s government said. I am amazed by the magnitude and rapidity with which the global coalition was set up to combat terrorism after the sad September 11 events, Cameroon
S.African Govt. Says Key Anti-AIDS Drug Too Costly: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 27, 2001; Wambui Chege; PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) - The South African government, under heavy pressure to provide a key antiretroviral drug to pregnant mothers with HIV-AIDS, said Tuesday it could not afford to provide the treatment nationwide. AIDS activists and doctors this week took the government to court in a bid to force it to pr
Merck Plans No More AIDS Drug Price Cuts: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 26, 2001; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co. Inc. is not planning further cuts in HIV drug prices for poor nations, despite a World Trade Organization agreement this month that could lead to competition from cheaper copycat medicines, a company official said. Guy Macdonald, Merck vice president of anti-infectives, said generic
Hip Hop Superstar Combs to Fight AIDS Ignorance: Reuters NewMedia - November 26, 2001; Paul Majendie; LONDON (Reuters) - Hip hop superstar Sean P Diddy Combs (formerly known as Puff Daddy) Monday warned millions of teen-agers around the world that AIDS knows no frontiers and can kill anywhere. HIV and AIDS touches everyone, it kills without conscience, rich or poor, black or white, young or old, he said, launching a do
S.Africa AIDS Groups in Court Over Key Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 26, 2001; Wambui Chege; PRETORIA (Reuters) - AIDS activists and doctors took the South African government to court Monday in a bid to force it to provide a key antiretroviral drug that cuts the risk of pregnant women passing the deadly disease to their babies. Activists say South Africa, which has more people living with HIV-AIDS than any oth
Singapore Group Calls for AIDS Drug Subsidies: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 26, 2001; SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore AIDS welfare group Monday called for the government to rethink its lack of drug subsidies as more than 70 percent of those infected in the city state cannot afford the life-prolonging treatments. Singapore is considered third world as far as HIV is concerned, Action for AIDS (AFA) sec
S.Africans Protest Baby-Rape, Case Postponed: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 23, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested outside a South African court on Friday, demanding death sentences for six men charged with raping a nine-month old baby, police said. In a case that has shocked the nation, the six men made a brief court appearance on Friday in the north-western town of Upington, b
Test Developed to See if Anti-AIDS Drugs Working: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 22, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in the United States have developed a quick method to test anti-AIDS treatments that could improve their effectiveness and prevent drug resistance, they said on Friday. Until now doctors were unable to determine whether a particular combination of drugs was fighting HIV until four to eight
Junior Doctors Ignorant of HIV Safety Steps -Survey: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 21, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Most junior doctors know the risks they run of exposure to HIV but many are unaware that they can protect themselves by taking a course of drugs immediately after exposure, according to a survey published on Thursday. The postal survey carried out by researchers in Australia said two-thirds
Adult HIV Treatments Work for Children as Well: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 21, 2001; BOSTON (Reuters) - The protease inhibitor treatments that have dramatically reduced the death rate from AIDS in adults are also effective in children and adolescents, Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine reported. Until now, doctors had suspected that the drugs prevented deaths in younger patients the way they ha
Ending Silence on China AIDS a Breakthrough -UNICEF: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 21, 2001; Tamora Vidaillet; BEIJING (Reuters) - By breaking its silence on AIDS, China has taken a major step toward preventing an epidemic in a country where new HIV cases are rising by up to 30 percent every year, U.N. officials said on Wednesday. Mehr Khan, the Thailand-based East Asia Director for the United Nations Children s Fund, hailed Ch
Cannabis Still Europe's Favorite Illegal Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 20, 2001; Martin Roberts; LISBON (Reuters) - Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in the European Union, with at least one in 10 adults in the 15-nation group having used it, according to a report published on Tuesday. The Lisbon-based European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said in its annual report for
African Study Backs Infant Formula for HIV Moms: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 20, 2001; CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study done in Kenya provides additional backing for the use of formula over breast feeding by women in poor countries who carry the virus which causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday. While previous research has verified that the AIDS virus can be transmitted to babies via breast milk, the n
Spreading the Word on AIDS in Mozambique: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 19, 2001; Charles Mangwiro; RIBAUE, Mozambique (Reuters) - Almelia Joao has changed her life after hearing an anti-AIDS message, but many in northern Mozambique deny the killer disease exists and refuse to change. There are still people who remain ignorant--some willfully--of southern Africa s health time-bomb despite programmes to distribute con
South Africa AIDS Groups Go to Court Over Key Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 19, 2001; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - AIDS activists in South Africa said on Monday they were pressing ahead with a court case to force the government to supply a vital drug cutting the risk of pregnant women passing the disease on to their babies. South Africa has more people living HIV and AIDS than any other country, and activists
UN Official: Development Key to Fight Against AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 16, 2001; ROME (Reuters) - Economic development and easing patent laws to allow cheaper drugs are key to combating AIDS, a senior United Nations official said on Friday. AIDS is an extremely complex problem, and the main solution to the problem is development, said Marcela Villarreal of the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Org
EU Ministers OK New Rules on Blood Transfusions: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 15, 2001; BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Thursday agreed to stricter rules for the use of blood in transfusions in a bid to prevent future contamination scandals linked to HIV or the human form of mad cow disease. The decision of the EU s 15 health ministers is aimed at increasing the quality and safety standards for
Words Fail Africa in Fight Against AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 15, 2001; Matthew Green; NAIROBI (Reuters) - If African leaders could cure AIDS with speeches, the epidemic scything its way across the continent would have been vanquished long ago. More than six months after African presidents abandoned years of denial to declare the AIDS epidemic an emergency at a meeting in Abuja, Nigeria ,
China firms offer drugs, and hope, to AIDS victims: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 15, 2001; Edwin Chan; SHANGHAI, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A handful of Chinese drug firms are gearing up to beat foreign pharmaceutical giants at their own game, lobbying the government for approval to start producing the country s first drugs to combat AIDS at rock-bottom prices. While the big foreign firms attach price tags of thousands of dolla
EU Ministers OK New Rules on Blood Transfusions: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 15, 2001; BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Thursday agreed to stricter rules for the use of blood in human transfusions in a bid to prevent future contamination scandals linked to AIDS or the human form of mad cow disease. The decision of the EU s 15 health ministers is aimed at increasing the quality and safety standa
Poor nations score big win on WTO health front: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 14, 2001; Rawhi Abeidoh; DOHA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Poor nations, displaying rare unity and preparedness, on Wednesday won a World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal that allows them better access to cheap drugs. The agreement was formally approved by trade ministers of the 142-nation WTO after six days of gruelling negotiations at a conference in
China's Gay Activists Cheer New Openness on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 14, 2001; ohn Ruwitch; BEIJING (Reuters) - In a country that has long kept homosexuals in the closet and AIDS under wraps, gay activists in China at last have something to cheer about. The Chinese Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality from a list of psychiatric disorders this year. And this week, the first national conference on AIDS
Brazil hails victory on WTO drug patents accord: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 14, 2001; Katherine Baldwin; BRASILIA, Brazil , Nov 14 (Reuters) - Brazil celebrated its role on Wednesday in helping broker a World Trade Organization deal on medical patents that will give poor countries better access to discounts on drugs for AIDS and other major killers. Brazil, emboldened by its own success in challenging drug companies over
China Opens First Ever National AIDS Conference: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 13, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - China s health minister vowed Tuesday to curb the spread of AIDS as he opened the country s first national conference on the disease, featuring top Chinese media stars and a giant yellow inflatable condom. But Health Minister Zhang Wenkang offered no new initiatives or policy changes at the opening
China AIDS Victims Crippled by High Treatment Cost: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 13, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhang Xiaqin looks like a healthy eight-year old. But her father s face is lined with anxiety as he struggles to find affordable treatment in China for the girl, infected with the HIV virus by a blood transfusion six years ago. As China opened its first national conference on AIDS and HIV Tuesday, Z
U.N. AIDS Chief Urges China to Break Taboos: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 12, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot urged China s leaders on Monday to get personally involved in the fight against the disease to pull the country back from the brink of a major epidemic. The day before China opens its first national conference on AIDS and the HIV virus , Piot also urged the government to f
Austrian Researchers Test Flu Vaccine Against HIV: Reuters newMedia - Monday November 12, 2001; Louis Charbonneau; VIENNA (Reuters) - Researchers at Vienna s Institute of Applied Microbiology say they are testing a possible way to prevent HIV infection with a modified flu vaccine. Dr. Boris Ferko, a member of the Austrian research team, said laboratory mice inoculated with flu viruses laced with material from the HIV/AIDS virus exh
U.N. AIDS Chief Urges China to Break Taboos: Reuters newMedia - Monday November 12, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot urged China s leaders on Monday to get personally involved in the fight against the disease to pull the country back from the brink of a major epidemic. The day before China opens its first national conference on AIDS and the HIV virus, Piot also urged the government to fa
Trimeris posts wider loss; HIV drug on track: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 8, 2001; DURHAM, N.C., Nov 8 (Reuters) - Biotech company Trimeris Inc. (NasdaqNM:TRMS - news) on Thursday posted a wider third-quarter loss due to higher research and development costs, and said its experimental drug to treat patients with HIV remains on track. Trimeris, which is developing an anti-HIV drug called T-20 with Swi
Vatican Blasts U.N. Manual on Refugee Sexual Health: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 8, 2001; Philip Pullella; VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday blasted the U.N. s refugee agency, saying a field manual it published on reproductive health offended the dignity of people because it promoted irresponsible sexual relations and abortion. The Vatican criticism was contained in a document sent to bishops conferences arou
New TB Vaccine Trials Set to Start in Britain: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 7, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Trials of the first new vaccine against tuberculosis in Britain in 80 years will begin early next year, a research charity said Wednesday. The Wellcome Trust said the new prime boost vaccine will be tested on volunteers in the first part of a study of the treatment to protect adults against the disea
South Africa Sees Launch of Rape Insurance Scheme: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 7, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A healthcare company on Wednesday launched a low-cost rape insurance scheme in South Africa , which faces the world s highest incidence of sexual assault. The 15 rand (US$1.58) per month policy offered by LifeSense Group, a private South African company, aims to help victims deal with the traum
Bristol-Myers to launch slate of drugs by '05: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 7, 2001; Ransdell Pierson and Jed Seltzer; NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE:BMY - news) said on Wednesday it plans to seek U.S. approval for five new drugs within the next 12 months and launch three new potential blockbuster drugs annually between 2003 and 2005. Speaking to analysts and investors at a conference in New Y
Meet Bono, Activist for Africa Post-Sept.11: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday November 7, 2001; Timothy Gardner; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - It s 5:00 p.m. on a Friday and a man looking rather like a motorcyclist from the future is sitting in a hotel lobby soothing a cough with a cup of black coffee. Over the last two hours, he has met with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Ivory Coast s prime minister, Affi N Guessan, an
Cheap, High Quality Condoms Needed in SE Asia: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 6, 2001; BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (Reuters) - Southeast Asia wants to cap rising HIV/AIDS cases in the region by stocking up cheap, but high quality condoms for use by its people. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Tuesday it would campaign against the disease by promoting condom use for safe sex. Am
Brazil seeks WTO allies in AIDS-drug patent fight: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday November 6, 2001; BRASILIA, Brazil , Nov 6 (Reuters) - Brazil plans to seek allies at this week s World Trade Organization meeting in Qatar to support its ground-breaking fight to ease patent laws on AIDS drugs, Health Minister Jose Serra said on Tuesday. Serra, who will attend the WTO meeting in Doha Nov. 9 to 13, said Brazil will ask
Southeast Asia Agrees to Step Up AIDS Battle: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 5, 2001; BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (Reuters) - Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Monday to step up the fight against HIV, which has infected about 1.6 million people in the region. Leaders of the 10-nation Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), in Brunei for their annual summit, issued a declaration vowing to spend
AIDS Myth Fuels S. Africa's Child-Rape Scourge: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 5, 2001; Sue Thomas; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa is in shock over a surge in the rape of children and even babies, fuelled by a myth that sex with a virgin will protect a man against AIDS, activists said on Monday. When six men appeared in court in the Northern Cape town of Upington for the rape of a 9-month-old girl on Monday, s
Drug Industry Under Fire at World Trade Meeting: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 5, 2001; Ben Hirschler; LONDON (Reuters) - The global drugs industry, accused by critics of profiting from AIDS in Africa and bioterrorism in the United States , faces a rough ride at world trade talks in Qatar this week. Executives were on the backfoot at an industry conference in London on Monday, warning of a slippery slope as developing
China AIDS Patient Uses Internet to Help Others: Reuters NewMedia - Monday November 5, 2001; BEIJING (Reuters) - The Web site of a Chinese AIDS patient, which acts as a forum for growing numbers of infected Chinese seeking advice on how to handle HIV/AIDS, has been publicized just days before a key conference on the disease. The pink-hued site of AIDS sufferer Xiao Cai is at http://aidscare.netsh.net and featu
Ghana to Produce Cheap Drugs to Fight AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 2, 2001; Kwaku Sakyi-Addo; ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana plans to begin producing its own generic versions of drugs for managing HIV/AIDS, so sufferers in the poor West African country can afford them, a government minister said. We re negotiating with the WHO (World Health Organisation) and the Ministry of Public Health in
HIV Rise in Russia May Lead to TB Epidemic -Doctors: Reuters NewMedia - Friday November 2, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - A rapid rise in the number of people infected with HIV in Russia could lead to a tuberculosis epidemic there, scientists warned on Friday. An estimated 16 million people, or one in six, in Russia are already infected with tuberculosis, a highly infectious airborne bacterial infection that affects the
Hundreds Protest Over AIDS Drug Patent Debate: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday November 1, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS activists protested outside U.S. trade negotiators offices on Thursday, accusing the officials of keeping cheaper medicines from poor nations while getting a discount on an anthrax drug at home. The protesters were trying to send a message ahead of a World Trade Organization meeting in Doha,
S.Africa AIDS Activists Welcome Increased Spending: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 31, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AIDS groups welcomed on Wednesday a decision by the South African government to boost spending on combating its HIV-AIDS epidemic, but said the funds needed to be properly spent to curb the disease. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced on Tuesday the country would quadruple state spending f
South Africa to Increase Spending on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 30, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Tuesday announced significantly increased spending on South Africa s twin scourges of HIV/AIDS and crime. Bypassing the reservations of President Thabo Mbeki, who has yet to publicly acknowledge that HIV causes AIDS or that AIDS kills more South Afri
Brazil Calls U.S. Stand on Drug Rules Inconsistent: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 30, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - US opposition to more flexible rules on drug patents is unreasonable given its own demands for cheaper anthrax-fighting Cipro, a top Brazilian health official said on Tuesday. The situation with US demands for cheaper Cipro is very similar to our demands for lower prices on AIDS drugs
New 'Fusion' AIDS Drug Fights Off Resistant Virus: Reuters NewMedia -Tuesday October 30, 2001; ATHENS (Reuters) - A revolutionary new AIDS drug, which could help thousands of people who fail to respond to conventional therapy, has produced promising results in clinical trials, researchers said on Tuesday. T-20, being developed by Switzerland s Roche Holding AG and U.S. biotech firm Trimeris Inc, is the first of
RESEARCH ALERT - Robertson Stephens raises Gilead: Reuters NewMedia - Monday October 29, 2001; NEW YORK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Robertson Stephens on Monday said it raised its rating on biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. (NasdaqNM:GILD - news) to a buy rating from a market perform rating, citing regulatory approval for an anti-HIV drug. Robertson Stephens also said that it expects a loss of $1.28 per share f
Study: Bristol-Myers AIDS Drug Avoids Fat Problem: Reuters NewMedia - Monday October 29, 2001; ATHENS (Reuters) - A new AIDS drug being developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co appears to avoid the fat-in-blood problems experienced by patients taking other similar medicines, a conference was told on Monday. Atazanavir , an experimental once-a-day drug in final Phase III clinical trials, belongs to the powerful prote
South Africa Urges Revised AIDS Drugs Deal: Reuters NewMedia - Monday October 29, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Monday to make AIDS drugs cheaper for the developing world and said the drug industry put patents before lives. South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said trade ministers should change a law on drug patents, known as TRIPS o
Gilead says FDA approves HIV-fighting drug Viread: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 26, 2001; Foster City, Calif., Oct 26 (Reuters) - Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. (NasdaqNM:GILD - news) announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved Viread , a new type of AIDS medicine that could help patients who have developed resistance to othe
South Africa's Mbeki Wants More Data on AIDS Threat: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 24, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki said Wednesday his government would not alter its approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping South Africa until it had assessed new data on the disease and gathered additional information. I do not believe that at this particular moment, the government is going to do anything
South Africa and drug industry clash over AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 23, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, Oct 23 (Reuters) - An uneasy peace between South Africa and the drug industry appeared under threat on Tuesday after Pretoria accused big companies of trying to peddle highly toxic AIDS drugs with the help of AIDS activists. Drug company executives denied allegations by the ruling African National Congres
South Africa Lashes Out at Firms on AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Monday October 22, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Monday that HIV drugs were ineffective and produced side effects almost as bad as the disease itself. The African National Congress (ANC) government accused an alliance led by the pharmaceutical industry, and including HIV/AIDS activists and churches, of trying to force it
S. African Baby with HIV Sues Govt. for Negligence: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 19, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A six-month-old baby who contracted HIV from her mother is suing South African authorities for failing to prevent it, lawyers and health officials said on Friday. Lawyers acting on instructions from baby Tinashe s 19-year-old mother--the family name was not made public--have demanded a provinci
"One Week" undone by weak script: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 19, 2001; Robert Koehler; HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - The melodramatic wheels spin and soon fall off the lumbering One Life, a dubious, contrived, cautionary tale about the hazards of not facing up to the facts about HIV. Underneath the somewhat fading topicality of sexually transmitted disease in the black community is just another example in a long
Europe panel advises approval of Gilead HIV drug: ReutersNewMedia - Thursday October 18, 2001; LOS ANGELES, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. (NasdaqNM:GILD - news) announced on Thursday that a European advisory panel has backed approval of the company s HIV-fighting drug Viread , a new type of AIDS medicine that could help patients who have developed resistance to other drugs.
Feds Nudging Bayer on Anthrax Drug Patent: ReutersNewMedia - Wednesday October 17, 2001; Jim Wolf; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is talking to German drug maker Bayer AG about relaxing its patent on Cipro, which has become the drug of choice for those worried about anthrax, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said on Wednesday. Asked on NBC s Today show whether he had nudged Bayer to
AIDS Is South Africa's Biggest Killer, Says Report: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 16, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa s Medical Research Council challenged President Thabo Mbeki s stance on AIDS on Tuesday, saying the disease accounted for a third of all deaths in the country this year. A report by the state-appointed council (MRC) contradicted Mbeki s statement in a BBC television interview in Augus
China Mulls First Public Appearance of HIV Patient: Reuters NewMedia - Monday October 15, 2001; Tamora Vidaillet; BEIJING (Reuters) - Battling widespread ignorance of the virus that causes AIDS, China is debating whether to allow an HIV patient to speak publicly about the disease for the first time, state media reported on Monday. An unidentified patient has put his name forward to speak at a China conference on AIDS prevention in
Austrian Researchers Test Flu Vaccine Against HIV: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 12, 2001; Louis Charbonneau; VIENNA (Reuters) - Researchers at Vienna s Institute of Applied Microbiology say they are testing a possible way to prevent HIV infection with a modified flu vaccine. Dr. Boris Ferko, a member of the Austrian research team, said laboratory mice inoculated with flu viruses laced with antigenic material from the AIDS vir
Afghanistan Bombing Could Cause AIDS Explosion: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 12, 2001; Wendy Pugh; MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The US-led attacks on Afghanistan will eventually disrupt the flow of opium from one of the world s top suppliers and could cause heroin-injecting to surge in neighboring Pakistan , leading to a potential AIDS catastrophe, researchers said on Friday. Heroin prices on the Pakistan-Afghan border
U.N. and Annan Share Centenary Nobel Peace Prize: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 12, 2001; Alister Doyle; OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan won the centenary Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working for a more peaceful world in the 21st century by tackling challenges from poverty to terrorism. The choice brought a flood of praise from around the globe, except from survivors of the 1994 gen
Asia-Pacific Ministers Vow War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 10, 2001; MELBOURNE (Reuters) - While world attention is focused on the crisis caused by the deadly attacks on the United States , Asia-Pacific ministers warned on Wednesday that HIV/AIDS also posed a serious threat of destabilisation. Global attention is currently on security threats of a different kind, but HIV/AIDS cannot be
CAT in HIV research deal with Merck: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 10, 2001; LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - UK biotechnology firm Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc (CAT) said on Wednesday it had entered into a license agreement with U.S. pharmaceuticals giant Merck & Co (NYSE:MRK - news) for the research and development of treatments for HIV. Under the terms of the five year agreement, Me
Drug Royalty to get royalty from Celgene's Thalomid: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 9, 2001; TORONTO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Canada s Drug Royalty Corp. Inc. said on Tuesday it had bought a royalty interest in global sales of Celgene Corp. s (NasdaqNM:CELG - news) Thalomid, a drug derived from thalidomide, which was pulled from the market in the 1960s for causing birth defects when used to control morning sickness.
AIDS vaccine seen within reach in next decade: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday October 7, 2001; Victoria Thieberger; MELBOURNE, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Scientists are increasingly optimistic that an AIDS vaccine will be available in the next six to 10 years, although the first one may not be 100 percent effective, researchers said on Sunday. And because the design of any ultimately successful vaccine is not yet known, the cost could vary f
S.Africa's Tutu says AIDS is "new apartheid": Reuters NewMedia - October 7, 2001; JOHANNESBURG, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Veteran anti-racism campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Sunday that HIV-AIDS was South Africa s new apartheid and criticised his country for dithering while people died of the disease. This is the new apartheid, the new enemy, Tutu told SABC public television s Newsmaker programme
Glaxo gives up rights to AIDS drugs in South Africa: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday October 6, 2001; Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent; LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Sunday it had handed over rights to its market-leading AIDS medicines in South Africa to a local generic drug firm, in an attempt to defuse a continuing row over access to treatment. The move comes six months after 39 pharmaceutical companies backed down in a landma
AIDS Could Spread Exponentially in Asia-Experts: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday October 6, 2001; Victoria Thieberger; MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The spread of AIDS in Asia risks rising exponentially unless renewed prevention efforts are undertaken in the next few years, health experts told a regional conference on Saturday. At the opening of the five-day International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, around 3,000 delegates were to
Annan Renews Push for Lower AIDS Treatment Costs: Reuters NewMedia - Friday October 5, 2001; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with top officials of seven major drug companies on Thursday to renew efforts to bring down the cost of treating AIDS in the world s poorest countries, a spokesman said. The meeting focused on improving access to AIDS drugs, lowering drug prices, expanding
'Explosive' AIDS Epidemics Hit Asian Sex Workers: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday October 4, 2001; Wendy Pugh; MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Prostitutes in China , Indonesia and Vietnam are falling victim to explosive AIDS epidemics which will spread to their customers wives and girlfriends, a U.N.-funded report said on Thursday. While large-scale preventative action had kept the disease at bay in parts of Asia, t
New Drug May Help Patients with Rare Lung Disease: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday October 4, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - An experimental drug for a rare but life-threatening lung disease helps to reduce its debilitating symptoms and improve patients quality of life, doctors said on Friday. Bosentan, produced by the Swiss biotechnology company Actelion under the brand name Tracleer, is the first oral drug for the treatm
U.S. FDA panel backs Gilead's HIV-fighting drug: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 3, 2001; Lisa Richwine; SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel on Wednesday backed Gilead Sciences Inc. s (NasdaqNM:GILD - news) HIV-fighting drug, Viread , a new type of AIDS medicine that could help patients who have developed resistance to other therapies. The need for new drugs to suppress HIV is growing as the vi
Vietnam Barbers Spread Anti-AIDS Message: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday October 3, 2001; Angela Takats; HAIPHONG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Barber Tien snips away at the mop of dark hair in front of him, chatting with his young male customer. You really must use condoms if you are sleeping with more than one woman because you don t know who could have AIDS, he says as he trims. What if you got AIDS and then passed it on to you
Gilead HIV drug gets favorable FDA staff review: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday October 2, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc. s experimental drug Viread on Tuesday received a favorable review from U.S. regulatory scientists, who said the pill appeared to help reduce levels of the deadly HIV virus. The assessment from Food and Drug Administration reviewers was posted on the agency s Web si
Visible Genetics HIV drug-resistance test approved: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 26, 2001; TORONTO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Visible Genetics Inc., a developer of products that use genetic information to improve patient care, announced on Wednesday that U.S. regulators have approved its kit for determining resistance to HIV drugs. The Toronto-based company said it received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Ad
Gilead's Viread Drug Shown to Help Lower HIV Level: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday September 25, 2001; FOSTER CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc. on Tuesday said its experimental HIV drug combined with other antiretroviral drugs was shown to reduce a more significant reduction in the level of HIV in patients compared to those who received a placebo. The drug tenofo
RESEARCH ALERT-Goldman initiates Gilead Sciences: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday September 25, 2001; NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs said it initiated coverage of Gilead Sciences Inc. (NasdaqNM:GILD - news) on Tuesday with a market outperformer rating and a price target of $60 to $65 per share, saying the company s future growth is linked to an AIDS drug. The bank said the company had established a strong
Insurers: 5 Million S.Africa AIDS Deaths in Decade: Reuters NewMedia - Friday September 21, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African insurance actuaries, worried about the impact of AIDS on that industry, said on Friday that five million people could die of AIDS in the next decade if there is no widespread change in sexual behaviour or medical intervention. According to its latest model, the Actuarial Society o
Worried Bulgaria Awaits Libyan HIV Trial Verdict: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday, September 20, 2001; Galina Sabeva; SOFIA (Reuters) - A Libyan court is expected to announce on Saturday its verdicts in an unprecedented trial of six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor charged with deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. The defendants, detained in Tripoli in early 1999, are accused of intentionally infecting
Drug Companies Warn AIDS Research Could Dry Up: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 19, 2001; Robert Evans; GENEVA (Reuters) - Leaders of the international pharmaceutical industry warned on Wednesday that research and development into AIDS drugs could dry up if current global trading rules on patents were loosened. The warning was issued as delegates to the World Trade Organization (WTO) met to discuss whether the body s TRI
Men to Be Fined a Cow for Sex with Teenage Girls: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday September 18, 2001; SHESELWENI, Swaziland (Reuters) - Swaziland s king has forbidden Swazi men from having sex with teenage girls for the next five years and slapped a fine of one cow on those breaking the law. Those of us who were about to propose love to these girls should wait until the end of the five-year period, the girls will be re
Lymphoma treatments expected to broaden: Reuters NewMedia - Monday September 17, 2001; Deena Beasley; LOS ANGELES, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Options for treating lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, look likely to broaden after Tuesday s support by a U.S. regulatory panel of Zevalin, an experimental drug that targets radiation to tumors. But makers of a potential rival drug called Bexxar said Zevalin, developed by San Di
Report Says AIDS Leading Cause of Death in S.Africa: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday September 16, 2001; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - AIDS is now South Africa s leading cause of death and the disease accounted for 40 percent of all those who died last year between the ages of 15 and 49, a local newspaper reported Sunday. The Sunday Times, citing a South Africa Medical Research Council report that has not yet bee
S. Africa to Fight AIDS Lobby on Nevirapine Demand: Reuters NewMedia - Friday, September 14, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The South African government will oppose a court bid by AIDS campaigners to force it to provide drugs that cut mother-to-child HIV transmission at birth, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Thursday. Yesterday was the deadline for us to respond. We have indicated that we intend to opp
Doctors Group to Export Brazil AIDS Program, Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, September 12, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders said on Wednesday it is working with Brazil to export the country s successful anti-AIDS program and its locally made AIDS drugs to other developing countries. The president of the Nobel Prize-winning organization, Bernard Pecoul, said he wi
AIDS Killing Millions of Africa's Farm Workers: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 12, 2001; David Brough; ROME (Reuters) - HIV /AIDS is devastating farming and worsening hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations world food body said on Tuesday. In Africa s 25 most affected countries, 7 million farm workers had died from AIDS since 1985 and 16 million more might die within the next 20 years, the UN Food and Agricultu
Dutch Study Finds AIDS Drugs Misused: Reuters NewMedia - Monday September 10, 2001; CHICAGO (Reuters) - Only about half of HIV -infected patients in a study published Sunday were found to be taking their antiretroviral drugs according to directions, opening the way to treatment failure and possible drug resistance. Such drugs are prescribed on a complicated schedule, often requiring multiple doses two
S.Africa's Mbeki Again Disputes AIDS Is Main Killer: Reuters NewMedia - Monday September 10, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has attracted a storm of controversy for questioning the link between HIV and AIDS, has stated once again that AIDS is not the biggest killer in the country. In a letter to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, dated August 6, 2001 and published by B
Scientists, Companies Clash Over Research: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday September 9, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The editors of the world s most prestigious medical journals unveiled a new policy on Sunday aimed at limiting the influence of pharmaceutical companies in research they fund involving their own products. Following are examples of some recent controversies. -- In 2000, scientists at the Universit
Sex with teacher fuels AIDS tragedy: Reuters NewMedia - September 9, 2001; Lucy Jones; BANGUI (Reuters) - Lucy Nadine Igala stares straight ahead as she describes the fate of her friend at Miskine grammar school on the outskirts of the Central African Republic s capital. Aged 15,and hoping to escape Bangui to live in Paris, her friend was diagnosed as HIV-positive. She caught it from one of the teachers.
Early AIDS Vaccines May Help Developed Countries: Reuters NewMedia - Friday September 7, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Early AIDS vaccines are likely to offer only partial protection against HIV , but could still have a significant impact in North America and Europe, where the epidemic has already slowed, researchers said on Friday. The race to find a vaccine, which began soon after AIDS was first identified as
Brazil Targets Older People in Anti-AIDS Program: Reuters NewMedia - Friday September 7, 2001; SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil s health ministry said on Thursday it is stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS among older people with education campaigns and the distribution of condoms. The ministry decided to address AIDS and HIV among Brazil s older generations after statistics showed that the dise
Vaccine Using Live Virus Blocks AIDS in Monkeys: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday September 6, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vaccine using a weakened form of a virus commonly found in livestock engineered to carry AIDS virus proteins succeeded in protecting monkeys from the deadly disease and offers great promise for people, researchers said on Thursday. Lead researcher John Rose, professor of pathology and cell biol
AIDS Researchers Seek Anti-HIV Antibodies: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday September 6, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Despite years of research and an arsenal of new biotech weapons, medical science has made little progress toward an AIDS vaccine capable of eliminating the threat of HIV infection, researchers said on Thursday. That is because human antibodies, called upon to squash diseases such as smallpox an
Pitfalls, Hope Seen in New AIDS Vaccine Research: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday September 6, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Twenty years after medical science first identified AIDS as a disease, researchers said on Thursday that a U.S.-led quest for a vaccine was entering a make-or-break phase fraught with pitfalls but with some hope for progress. Potential vaccines can require a decade of painstaking work before re
Report Details Biotech Plants, Animals on Horizon: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday September 6, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new generation of genetically engineered products, ranging from blue roses to anti-HIV spinach, is being developed to benefit consumers, the nonprofit Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology said on Thursday. The group said it had reviewed dozens of new gene-spliced plant and animal products b
Drug Co., Fla. Medicaid Reach Cost-Savings Deal: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 5, 2001; Ransdell Pierson; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said on Wednesday it will help fund health services for minority patients in Florida s Medicaid program to ensure the company s prescription drugs are placed on the program s list of preferred medicines. The agreement between the nation s No. 3 drugmaker and Florida, which
AIDS Researchers Upbeat About Vaccine Prospects: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 5, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Leading AIDS researchers said on Wednesday they were more optimistic than ever about the prospect for developing a vaccine capable of controlling, if not eliminating, the deadly HIV virus. At the first conference ever devoted to the international effort to develop such a vaccine, AIDS researche
AIDS Chief Says Few Africans Know They're Infected: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday September 5, 2001; Steven Swindells; DURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot said Wednesday around 99 out of 100 Africans infected with HIV had no idea they were. He warned that the fight against the AIDS epidemic had been made more difficult by the stigma of the disease, which frightened people away from getting tested. clue that they
Cipla Says Cheap AIDS Drug Exports Taking Off: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday September 4, 2001; Sitaraman Shankar; BOMBAY (Reuters) - India s Cipla Ltd , which shook global drugmakers with an offer to supply HIV/AIDS drugs at less than $1 a day, said on Tuesday it has exported the drugs to a dozen countries and is in talks with more potential buyers. Cipla s managing director, Amar Lulla, told Reuters that the company has exported
Brazil Wins Discount on Roche AIDS Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 31, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Under pressure from Brazil, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche agreed on Friday to cut the price of its AIDS drug, nelfinavir, by 40 percent in the country, which the Brazilian health minister called a victory for developing nations. The discount was in line with Brazilian demands. Braz
Brazil wins 40 pct discount on Roche AIDS drug: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 31, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , Aug 31 31 (Reuters) - Under pressure from Brazil, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche agreed on Friday to cut the price of its AIDS drug, nelfinavir, by 40 percent in the country, which the Brazilian health minister called a victory for developing nations. The discount was in line with Brazilian d
Elizabeth Taylor fears growing AIDS complacency: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 31, 2001; VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Hollywood legend and veteran AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor chided the world s youth Friday for becoming too complacent about the HIV virus and the need to practice safe sex. We are doing everything in our power to find a cure, she told Reuters Television at a fund-raising dinner for AIDS rese
Africa's Largest Generic AIDS Drug Program Delayed: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 31, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; LAGOS (Reuters) - Africa s most ambitious generic AIDS treatment program will not be ready for Nigerian patients by the September 1 target date, health officials said on Friday. The technicians who will monitor and evaluate the pilot program have not been trained, the government has not said where or how the drugs will
TB Drug Therapy Linked to Liver Injuries, Deaths: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 30, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Thursday warned doctors to limit their use of a promising drug cocktail when treating cases of latent tuberculosis because the therapy caused severe liver injuries and death in some patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Thoracic Society is
Immune Response Drops AIDS Drug Trial, Seeks Approval: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 30, 2001; Jed Seltzer and Toni Clarke; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Immune Response Corp. said on Thursday it will abandon a pivotal trial of its Remune AIDS drug and seek marketing approval based on information it has already collected. Remune is a vaccine designed to stimulate the immune systems of AIDS patients, but unlike traditional vaccines, the drug is used
China Said to Be on the Verge of an HIV Epidemic: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 30, 2001; Tamora Vidaillet; BEIJING (Reuters) - China only has a few years to prevent an explosion of HIV infections that could come largely through sexual transmission, a leading US AIDS expert warned on Thursday. Despite widespread reports on the spread of HIV through tainted blood in some central China provinces, it is sex that is most likely
Researchers say drug-resistant HIV on the rise: Reuters NewMedia - August 30, 2001; Deena Beasley; LOS ANGELES, Aug 30 (Reuters) - By 2005, nearly half of all HIV patients in San Francisco will not respond to drugs now used to treat the disease, due mostly to inaccurate use of those drug regimens by doctors, a study reported on Thursday. Researchers at the San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses of the University of
South African Firms Offer AIDS Treatment Pack...: Reuters NewMedia - August 26, 2001; Brendan Boyle; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African companies are offering treatment packages as an incentive to break the barriers of denial that surround HIV and AIDS in the country with the world s highest number of sufferers. But they differ sharply on whether they can or should offer antiretroviral drugs as part of the package. T
Brazil makes demands in Roche AIDS drug dispute: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 23, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , Aug 23 (Reuters) - Brazil upped the ante on Thursday in a feud over the high cost of AIDS drugs, demanding Swiss group Roche Holding AG slash the price of one of its drugs by 40 percent or face Brazilian production of a low-cost version. A day after Brazil said it planned to break the patent on
FDA panel to review Gilead HIV drug: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday August 21, 2001; FOSTER CITY, Calif., Aug 21 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc. said on Tuesday that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel is scheduled to review Viread , the company s drug intended to treat HIV infection, on October 3. Gilead Sciences filed a New Drug Application for Viread on May 1 and the agency gave it a prior
Brazil says nearer to producing Roche AIDS drug: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 20, 2001; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , Aug 20 (Reuters) - Brazil is stepping up pressure on Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche to cut the price of its AIDS drug or face competition from a locally made copy, an official at a government laboratory said on Monday. The director of the state-owned Far-Manguinhos said she has completed a co
Four in 10 Italian Teenagers Paid for Sex - Survey: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 20, 2001; ROME (Reuters) - Nearly four in 10 Italian teenage males had their first sexual experience with a prostitute, according to a survey reported in Rome s la Repubblica newspaper on Saturday. The survey, conducted by Help Me, an Italian volunteer aid group, said 37 percent of 14 to 18 year-olds polled had paid for their fi
Rome Adopts Abandoned, HIV-Positive Baby Girl: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday August 18, 2001; ROME (Reuters) - Rome s city hall said on Saturday it was taking responsibility for the care of a two-month-old Nigerian girl who has become a horrifying symbol of the dark side of illegal immigration in Italy . The girl was found in the early hours of Friday lying naked next to her dead mother, a 28-year-old HIV-posit
Roche says aims to launch novel AIDS drug in 2003: ReutersNewMedia - Wednesday August 15, 2001; BASEL, Switzerland , Aug 15 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG said on Wednesday it hoped to launch a revolutionary new AIDS drug, which could save the lives of thousands of people who fail to respond to conventional therapy, in 2003. T-20, being developed by the Swiss group and U.S. biotech Trimeris Inc , is the first of a
Long Delay in HIV Tests May Be Fueling AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday August 14, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - A large number of Americans infected with the human immunodeficiency virus are waiting often more than a decade before having an HIV test, undermining efforts to control the spread of AIDS , U.S. health experts said on Tuesday. A staggering 41 percent of all people diagnosed with AIDS in 25 states b
Health Officials Troubled by Latest AIDS Data: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 13, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - Federal health experts said on Monday the battle against the AIDS epidemic had stalled in the United States and the disease showed signs of making a strong comeback among gay and bisexual men and parts of the black community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its latest data from t
Asia's Growing Sex Market Underlines AIDS Risk-WHO: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 13, 2001; David Brunnstrom; HANOI (Reuters) - Asia may have beaten the worst of the AIDS epidemic with condoms, but the region s growing sex industry highlights the need to promote wider usage to prevent new infections, World Health Organization experts said on Monday. Speaking at the start of a five-day conference in Hanoi they said the numbers
S.African Health Boss Says AIDS Drugs Too Costly: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 13, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The head of South Africa s health system said key antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV-AIDS were still too costly for the country, which has more AIDS sufferers than anywhere else. In a BBC television interview broadcast on Monday, Health Director General Ayanda Ntsaluba said scarce resources shap
Central America Teams Up to Buy AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday August 11, 2001; TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Six Central American nations will try to negotiate lower prices for AIDS drugs by buying together in bulk from major pharmaceutical companies, Honduran Health Minister Plutarco Castellanos said on Saturday. We agreed to design a strategy to negotiate joint purchases of anti-retrov
Zambia AIDS Clinic Plan Halted Amid Fear of Stigma: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 10, 2001; LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian health authorities have rejected plans to create a specialized clinic to deal with HIV -AIDS, a disease which carries a terrible social stigma in the southern African country. The country s National HIV-AIDS Council had proposed the clinic in an attempt to care for the estimated 200 Zambians
China Sends Government Team to AIDS-Ridden Village: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday August 8, 2001; BEIJING (Reuters) - A government AIDS control team has visited a village in the central province of Henan struck by mass infections of HIV from unregulated blood banks, the People s Daily said on Wednesday. The group, led by Vice Minister of Health Yin Dakui, visited clinics and homes of AIDS patients and people infect
S. Africa's Mbeki Disputes AIDS Is Main Killer: Reuters NewMedia - Monday August 6, 2001; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has attracted a storm of controversy for questioning the link between HIV and AIDS , said on Monday violence, not AIDS, was the biggest killer in the country. You know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of de
Ethiopians March for Cheap Generic AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday August 5, 2001; ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Thousands of Ethiopians, including many children orphaned by AIDS , took to the streets of Addis Ababa on Sunday to appeal to their government to import cheap drugs to combat the AIDS epidemic sweeping the country. Roughly three million Ethiopians from a population of 60 million are thought to b
Obasanjo Calls for Free Condoms for Nigeria Troops: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday August 4, 2001; John Chiahemen; IBADAN, Nigeria (Reuters) - President Olusegun Obasanjo called on Nigeria s military commanders on Saturday to consider giving free condoms to their troops to curb the spread of AIDS in the armed forces. You must not allow AIDS to ravage our armed forces, Obasanjo told top ranking officers from Nigeria s army, navy and
China Warns of 'Dangerous' AIDS Epidemic: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 3, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - China has launched a drive to curb the spread of the HIV virus through tainted blood transfusions amid warnings that an AIDS epidemic is reaching dangerous levels, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The government will spend $12 million annually on the program, which follows reports
China Launches Drive to Curb HIV in Blood: Reuters NewMedia - Friday August 3, 2001; Jeremy Page; BEIJING (Reuters) - China has launched a drive to curb the spread of HIV through tainted blood transfusions amid warnings that an AIDS epidemic is reaching dangerous levels, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The government will spend 100 million yuan ($12 million) annually on the programme, which foll
Patients Cite 'Loss of Self' for Euthanasia: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 2, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Loss of self, more than unbearable pain or prolonged suffering, is why many people suffering from life-threatening illnesses consider euthanasia and assisted suicide, researchers said on Friday. In a study that offers new insights into why people desire to end their lives scientists at the National I
HIV-Positive Rapist Denied Parole in New York: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday August 2, 2001; NEW YORK (Reuters) - An HIV-positive man who admitted and bragged in 1997 about his sexual exploits with dozens of women and girls that exposed them to the virus that causes AIDS , was denied parole on Thursday, officials said. Nushawn Williams, who also used the name Shyteek Johnson and 16 other aliases, has been serv
Clinton, Babyface Edmonds Team Up for AIDS Fight: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday August 1, 2001; Christopher Michaud; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton and Grammy award-winning singer and producer Kenneth Babyface Edmonds announced on Tuesday they would lead a new initiative to fight AIDS in Africa and globally by raising awareness and money for the battle against the epidemic. Clinton, who on Monday moved into his ne
Medical Web Site Explains Lab Results to Patients: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 31, 2001; Julie Steenhuysen; CHICAGO (Reuters) - Patients baffled by their laboratory test results may find relief in a new, noncommercial Web site aimed at taking the mystery out of those indecipherable results. Lab Tests Online (http://www.labtestsonline.org), a site sponsored by six clinical laboratory groups, gives consumers news and informati
UN: Nigeria Sets Africa's Biggest Assault on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 31, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nigeria , where nearly 3 million people are infected with HIV , will soon begin treating 15,000 of them with sophisticated antiviral drugs in the largest such program in Africa, a UN official said on Monday. It is the government s intention on September 1 to begin a process of antiretroviral
Applied Biosystems seeks approval for HIV test: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 31, 2001; LOS ANGELES, July 31 (Reuters) - A joint venture of Applied Biosystems Group and Celera Genomics Group said on Tuesday an application was filed with regulators for its gene sequencing system to detect resistance to HIV drugs. Both Celera, based in Rockville, Maryland, and Applied Biosystems, based in Foster City, Calif
African Bishops Slam Condom Use in AIDS Fight: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 30, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Catholic bishops from southern Africa on Monday condemned the use of condoms to fight the AIDS pandemic gripping the continent, saying it was immoral and dangerous. The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference wrapped up a seven-day meeting by denouncing the use of condoms, which they said
UN's Annan Hopes Racism Talks Will Heal Wounds: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 30, 2001; Sue Pleming; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Monday he hoped next month s UN conference on race, which the United States has threatened to boycott, will heal old wounds and that nations will find common ground to fight racism. The United States has threatened to boycott the racism conference set for D
Medical Web site explains lab tests to consumers: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 30, 2001; By Julie Steenhuysen; CHICAGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Patients baffled by their laboratory test results may find relief in a new, noncommercial Web site aimed at taking the mystery out of those indecipherable results. Lab Tests Online (http://www.labtestsonline.org), a site sponsored by six clinical laboratory groups, gives consumers news and
More Women Needed in AIDS Research, Doctors Say: Reuters Newmedia - Thursday July 26, 2001; Mary Jo Feldstein; CHICAGO (Reuters) - AIDS physician Jerry Cade says his patients are different from the subjects in the research studies. Cade s patients are women. Women have been excluded from clinical trials in the past because the majority of AIDS patients have been men. But women now make up more than half of the more than 36 mill
Conservative Doctors Call on CDC Chief to Resign: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 24, 2001; Letitia Stein; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative physicians on Tuesday called for the resignation of a key health official they say has misled the public on the effectiveness of condoms in protecting against many sexually transmitted diseases. At a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol, they also demanded the Food and Drug Admin
Ashcroft Says Will Halt INS Bid to Deport Thai Boy: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 23, 2001; Dan Whitcomb; LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft said on Monday that he would halt efforts by immigration officials to deport an HIV -infected 4-year-old Thai boy who was brought to the United States as a pawn of smugglers. Ashcroft said at a Los Angeles press conference he would grant Phanupong Khaisri -- the boy n
Dutch Launch Glossy Magazine for Female Junkies: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 23, 2001; Abigail Levene; AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Vogue it ain t. But Mainline Lady, a new Dutch glossy magazine for female drug addicts, is perhaps the ultimate in heroin chic. Stuffed with tips on fashion, sex, beauty and health--the stock-in-trade of women s journals the world over--the new magazine bears a passing resemblance to its more stai
Baxter recalls some of product used for burn victims: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 23, 2001; CHICAGO, July 23 (Reuters) - Baxter International Inc. on Monday said it has recalled one lot of a product that hospitals use to treat burn victims and patients in shock after a test found a rare form of HIV in the plasma used to make the product. This is being recalled for quality reasons, not safety reasons, said Tan
Bush Keeps Clinton Appointees on AIDS Council: Reuter NewMedia - Monday July 23, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will retain the Advisory Council on HIV /AIDS created by his predecessor along with several members appointed by then-President Bill Clinton, the White House said on Friday. Otherwise, the council would have gone out of existence this week. Members of the administration s
United States Boosts Global AIDS Fund Contribution: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday July 21, 2001; GENOA (Reuters) - The United States has boosted its contribution to a new global health fund set up to help fight HIV /AIDS, a U.S. administration official said on Saturday. Today I can announce that the U.S. is contributing an additional $100 million, for a total contribution in (fiscal year) 2001 of $300 million to t
Experts Defend Condoms Despite U.S. Gov't Report: Reuters NewMedia - Friday July 20, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Condoms effectively prevent HIV transmission but data is lacking on whether they work to block most sexually transmitted diseases, according to a report released on Friday by federal health officials. The report, a review of existing medical studies, concluded there is insufficient evidence to ju
G8 Set to Give Scant Debt, Health Help to Africa: Reuters NewMedia - Friday July 20, 2001; Luke Baker; ROME (Reuters) - Africa s hopes of receiving substantive support from the world s richest nations appeared scant as the G8 summit began on Friday, with the door shut on debt relief and funding for a health fund so far paltry. But African leaders, meeting in Rome before going to Genoa to present their plans for revitali
G8 to Launch AIDS Fund, But Short of U.N. Target: Reuters NewMedia - Friday July 20, 2001; Steve Pagani; GENOA (Reuters) - Italy , hosting a summit of world leaders in the Italian port of Genoa, said Friday a global fund to fight AIDS had reached $1.3 billion and could rise to $2 billion by the end of the year. Group of Eight leaders were expected to announce the creation of an international AIDS fund with U.N. Secretary-
Report Raises Questions About Condoms - Post: Reuters NewMedia - Friday July 20, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new report by the National Institutes of Health concluded that condoms are effective in preventing pregnancy and HIV -infection, but may not prevent the spread of most sexually transmitted diseases, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The report said there was insufficient evidence to deter
Activists attack Pfizer on pricing policy: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday July 19, 2001; Mariam Isa; JOHANNESBURG, July 19 (Reuters) - Activists and charity groups launched a blistering attack on U.S. drugs giant Pfizer on Thursday, urging it to lower the price of life-saving drugs in poor countries. UK based charity Oxfam said in a report Pfizer was using its position as the industry s most powerful lobbyist to encou
UN, G8 Leaders Gather $1 Billion for Health Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday July 18, 2001; TOKYO (Reuters) - A global fund to tackle diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis will be unveiled on Friday at a meeting of Group of Eight (G8) leaders, with contributions already nearing $1 billion, Japanese officials said on Wednesday. The fund was launched last month by United Nations Secretary-General
Canada to Give C$150 Million to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday July 18, 2001; OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Wednesday it would give about C$150 million (US$98 million) to a new United Nations global fund designed to help fight HIV and AIDS as well as tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries. International Co-operation Minister Maria Minna said the contribution would be over and above
Kenyan Family Shatters AIDS Taboo with Death Notice: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 17, 2001; Matthew Green; NAIROBI (Reuters) - A family broke a major taboo in Kenya on Tuesday by decorating a death announcement for a deceased relative with two red ribbons to show he died of AIDS . Fighting back tears, Paul Omukuba s sister said it was time Kenyans washed away the stigma preventing people confronting the reality of a disease
African Leaders Awake From AIDS Lethargy: UN: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 16, 2001; Matthew Green; NAIROBI (Reuters) - African leaders have finally woken up to a catastrophic AIDS epidemic, but unless they act soon the disease will take an apocalyptic toll, a top UN AIDS envoy said on Monday. Stephen Lewis, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan s special AIDS envoy to Africa, said governments struggling to throw off years
South African Man Must Pay Wife HIV Damages: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 16, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The South African High Court has ordered a man to pay his wife nearly one million rand in damages for infecting her with HIV , a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times said acting judge Naren Pandya had awarded a Durban housewife 958,689 rand (US$116,400) for pain and suffering, in the
No Sex for Two Years, Moi Urges Kenyan People: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday July 12, 2001; NAIROBI Jul 12 (Reuters) - President Daniel arap Moi has urged Kenyans to abstain from sex for at least two years to try to curb the spread of HIV , newspapers reported on Thursday. Moi was speaking after the government announced plans on Wednesday to import 300 million condoms to fight AIDS , a move which has already
HIV patients back new Roche, Trimeris drug: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday July 11, 2001; LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - HIV patients have endorsed a revolutionary new drug, despite the need for twice-daily injections, the two companies behind the product said on Wednesday. T-20, being developed by Swiss-based Roche Holding AG and U.S. biotech company Trimeris Inc (NasdaqNM:TRMS , is the first of a new class o
Virologic Aids drug resistance test improves: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 10, 2001; Toni Clarke; NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - Biotechnology company Virologic Inc. said it improved its Aids drug-resistance technology, an advance that could substantially increase its share of the resistance-testing market. South San Francisco-based Virologic s PhenoSense HIV technology can detect resistance to drugs in patients who
AIDS Therapy Not a Failure if Virus Reappears: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 10, 2001; CHICAGO (Reuters) - The reappearance of worrisome levels of the AIDS virus in infected patients bloodstreams does not mean the drug therapy they are using has failed, researchers said on Tuesday. The importance of the finding that HIV levels can rise modestly for a time and then subside again and are not a sign of a th
Zimbabwe City Wants Double Burials Due to AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 9, 2001; HARARE (Reuters) - The city council in Zimbabwe s capital Harare is calling on residents to consider double burials to save space in a capital whose graveyards are filling fast due to AIDS. Harare city curator of graves Eladinos Zimbwa told the Sunday Mail newspaper that although Zimbabwe s black majority was opposed t
Immune Response crushed as Pfizer ends HIV drug deal: Reuters NewMedia - Friday July 6, 2001; Ransdell Pierson; NEW YORK, July 6 (Reuters) - Shares of Immune Response Corp. were plunging over 50 percent on Friday after saying its partner, Pfizer Inc., was discontinuing development of experimental anti-HIV drug Remune. Near midday, Immune Response s stock was down $2.44, or 53.4 percent, at $2.14. In the past year, the shares
ViroLogic says HIV drug-resistance test promising: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday July 5, 2001; NEW YORK, July 5 (Reuters) - ViroLogic Inc said on Thursday a study suggests its PhenoSense HIV drug-resistance test might help predict which drugs might be most successful for individual patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS, spurring a rally in company shares. Shares of the South San Francisco, California
Annan Equates AIDS Battle to U.S. Fight for Liberty: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday July 4, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan used the 225th birthday of the United States on Wednesday to equate the global fight against AIDS with the struggle for liberties enshrined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Annan, who received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal during a Fourth of July cerem
Drug Firms Slash Some TB Medicine Costs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday July 4, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical companies, still smarting from a public outcry over AIDS drugs, have agreed to slash the price of five potent anti-tuberculosis medicines in poor countries, a leading medical charity said on Wednesday. Medecins Sans Frontieres, which helped broker a deal between industry and the
African Summit to Turn AIDS Words Into Action: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 3, 2001; Matthew Green; NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rose s four-year-old son spends his days watching his bed-ridden mother fade as AIDS takes her a step closer to death with every hour. The story will soon end in their Nairobi shack as it does thousands of times a day across Africa. Rose will become another digit in Kenya s AIDS toll and the boy wil
Annan to Meet African Leaders on AIDS, Conflict: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday July 3, 2001; LUSAKA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will discuss regional conflicts and AIDS with African leaders at their annual summit in Lusaka next week, Zambian Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. Annan, who is scheduled to arrive in Zambia on July 8, will be joined by the heads of the U.N. chil
Kenya's Moi Says Hang Deliberate Spreaders of AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Monday July 2, 2001; NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has demanded the death penalty for people who knowingly infect others with HIV/AIDS, to deter men from passing the disease to vulnerable younger women, newspapers reported on Sunday. We have to make laws that restrict those who deliberately infect others because youn
South Africa Says It Has Put Poverty on AIDS Map: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 29, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said Friday it had succeeded in getting the world community to recognize the crucial role played by poverty in the devastating spread of AIDS across Africa. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said this week s unprecedented United Nations summit on AIDS had acknowledged the n
Australia Looks to Cheaper AIDS Drugs for Asia: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 29, 2001; CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia said on Friday it was negotiating with Australian-based drug companies to give developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region much cheaper access to AIDS medication. A spokesman for Health Minister Michael Wooldridge said the negotiations could lead to the annual cost of treating HIV an
Account Set Up for Donations to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 29, 2001; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday that a special account had been set up to receive individual contributions to the global fund against AIDS championed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan . The money will be held in the special account, established by the U.N. Foundation, until the fund is operat
World Bank Pledges $155m for Caribbean AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 29, 2001; Mark Egan; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank on Thursday said it approved a $155 million lending program to help tackle HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, the region hardest hit by the epidemic outside of Africa. The bank said in a statement that as part of the broad package, it approved projects for the
UN AIDS Conference Ends with Tough Declaration: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 28, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A major UN AIDS conference on Wednesday approved a battle plan committing nations to fight the killer disease but deleted explicit references to homosexuals, prostitutes and drug users as particularly vulnerable groups. After wrangling for weeks over whether to highlight the groups, the 189-m
S. Africa Faces 7 Million AIDS Deaths by 2010: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 28, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AIDS could kill as many as 7 million South Africans by the end of the decade if the disease is not tackled with proper treatment, the country s leading medical research agency said on Thursday. The latest warning from the state-funded Medical Research Council (MRC) comes as South Africa remains
South Africa's Mbeki Visits Merck Lab, Meets Sharon: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 27, 2001; Deborah Zabarenko; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki, whose views on AIDS have drawn widespread criticism, visited a Merck research lab on Wednesday and offered encouraging words on AIDS treatment. But he turned aside a direct question about whether he believes the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV causes AIDS
US Official Sorry for Remarks on Africans And AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 27, 2001; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Andrew Natsios, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has apologized for remarks he made about Africans and AIDS drugs that critics denounced as racist, an aide said on Tuesday. Natsios, a former aid worker in Africa, said earlier this month in an interview that the
British Minister Calls UN AIDS Fund Unworkable: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 27, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Britain s International Development Secretary Clare Short was quoted on Wednesday as saying the UN s fledgling global health fund to fight AIDS was over-hyped and unworkable. Short said in an interview with Britain s Guardian newspaper that the fund, conceived by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, was
AIDS Misery in Zimbabwe Mirrors Africa's Plight: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 27, 2001; Cris Chinaka; NYIKA, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - While the world s political elite meets in New York this week to plan the war against the AIDS epidemic, the people of Nyika village in Zimbabwe will be burying more of their dead. Nyika epitomizes the total devastation and human misery brought on by HIV -AIDS affecting a staggering 25 milli
Australia Calls for HIV Screening of UN Workers: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; DARWIN, Australia (Reuters) - Australia s Northern Territory called on Tuesday for the United Nations to screen its workers in East Timor for HIV, saying it had found 10 cases of the AIDS-causing virus among foreigners visiting from East Timor. Northern Territory Chief Minister Denis Burke said one Australian woman in
South Africa Faces Legal Action on AIDS Drug Denial: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa s leading AIDS activist group said on Tuesday it was preparing to take President Thabo Mbeki s government to court for denying HIV-positive pregnant women drugs that cut the risk of transmitting the disease to their newborns. The South African Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said t
Activists Fear UN AIDS Meeting May Be Words Only: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Activists and charity groups were apprehensive on Tuesday that the first major U.N. conference on AIDS would leave poor governments with few resources but encourage discriminatory prevention programs. With 36 million people infected with AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes it, health experts a
House Panel Leaders Agree on AIDS Funding Boost: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; John Whitesides; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of a key House of Representatives panel agreed on Tuesday to a sharp increase in the White House s proposed spending to fight AIDS around the globe, setting up a possible battle over the U.S. commitment to halt the spread of the disease. The agreement by leaders of the International R
Drug Firms Say Nations Fail to Buy AIDS Medication: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Lisa Richwine; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Drug makers said on Monday they had done their part to fight AIDS in poor countries by lowering prices but that many governments were not taking advantage of the offer. I think it s a public failure, said Harvey Bale, director general of International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
Mbeki Urges Bush to Help Africa 'Turn the Corner': Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Deborah Charles; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Tuesday vowed to help promote economic growth and democracy in Africa after South African President Thabo Mbeki asked the United States to help Africa turn the corner and support its efforts to deal with violence, poverty and diseases like AIDS. You know the challenges we f
Group aims to enlist businesses to fight AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Lisa Richwine; UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (Reuters) - A new group dedicated to prodding companies to help fight AIDS said on Tuesday it hoped to enlist 200 firms to battle the killer disease, using the argument that the crisis is hurting them financially. Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the group
African Nations Want Access to AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Spurred by horrific scenes at home, African leaders appealed on Tuesday for help in combating AIDS, saying 36 million people faced death without sophisticated drugs. Crying is not enough, Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa told the U.N. General Assembly on the second day of a major AIDS confe
Sweden Pledges $60 Million to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sweden announced on Tuesday a $60 million contribution to a global health fund against AIDS, bringing total pledges to a disappointing $590.2 million. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has championed the fund, estimates that $7 billion to $10 billion a year in extra spending is needed to
South Africa Teens Tune Into Hip AIDS Program: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Emelia Sithole; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - In a country where 6 million South Africans could die from AIDS before their 35th birthday, a controversial campaign is teaching teen-agers how to be naughty but nice. Using pamphlets, newspaper advertisements, billboards, television and radio dramas and sporting events, loveLife
African Nations Want Fast Action on Killer AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 26, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Armed with statistics and horrific scenes at home, developing nations appealed for help in combating AIDS, saying millions faced death because they could not afford sophisticated drugs. In Malawi , 30 percent of school teachers are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and in
U.S. Will Contribute More to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In an impassioned speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary of State Colin Powell promised on Monday the United States would provide more money for a global AIDS fund as well as research for a cure. He did not say how much more the Bush administration would contribute but said the initia
Empowering Young African Women AIDS Key, U.N. Told: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Lisa Richwine; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Winning the battle against AIDS requires empowering young African women and girls to protect themselves from the deadly disease, government officials said on Monday. AIDS infection rates are rising rapidly among young women and girls in many African countries. In Mozambique , H
United States to Give More to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that the United States would provide more money for a global AIDS fund. He did not say how much more the Bush administration would contribute but said the initial $200 million US contribution was
Global AIDS Fund Donations Hit $528 Million: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than half a billion dollars has been pledged to a global fund championed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to battle AIDS in poor countries, UN officials said on Sunday. Annan has proposed an anti-AIDS war chest for poor countries, estimating $7 billion to $10 billion a year in addition
Poverty No Obstacle to AIDS Treatment, Experts Say: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Lisa Richwine; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Health and UN officials said on Friday they have evidence the latest AIDS treatments can work in impoverished villages, contradicting statements by large drug companies that even free anti-retroviral drugs would not help where medical support is lacking. Anti-retroviral therapy for poor count
UN AIDS Conference Opens with Plea for Money, Rights: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Declaring AIDS had wiped out a decade of progress in some areas, Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called on the world to speak frankly about the disease and its victims facing a death sentence. We cannot deal with AIDS by making moral judgements or refusing to face unpleasant facts -- a
Annan: AIDS Victims Are Human Beings with Rights: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 25, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Declaring AIDS had wiped out a decade of progress in some areas, Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday called for funds to combat the killer disease and told governments to stop stigmatizing its victims. AIDS can no longer do its deadly work in the dark. The world has started to wake up, An
AIDS Conference Draws Thousands to New York: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday June 24, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two decades after the first AIDS case was reported, the United Nations on Monday opens a high-level conference to combat the disease killing 5 million adults a year and creating a generation of orphans. The appalling figures are not in dispute for the 3,000 government leaders, advocacy groups
S.Africa's Mbeki U.S.-Bound But Will Skip AIDS Meet: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday June 24, 2001; Emelia Sithole; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves on Monday for the United States to promote an African recovery plan, but officials say he will skip a U.N. summit on the AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa. Mbeki will hold talks with President Bush during an official visit from J
Canada Protests Exclusion of Gays From AIDS Panel: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday June 23, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - On the eve of a major U.N. AIDS conference, Canada protested against a group of Islamic nations seeking to keep a U.S.-based gay rights group from participating on a U.N.-sponsored panel next week. Susan Markham, spokeswoman for the U.N. General Assembly president, said on Saturday she expect
Hundreds Rally in U.S. for AIDS Drugs for Poor: Reuter NewMedia - Saturday June 23, 2001; Lisa Richwine; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of activists, shouting medication for every nation, called on Saturday for billions of dollars in debt relief and funding to pay for drug treatment for the world s millions of poor AIDS patients. Religious, human rights and AIDS groups marched through city streets on a rainy afternoon to s
Delegates Still Deadlocked on UN AIDS Declaration: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 22, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Only days before a major U.N. AIDS conference, Islamic nations and the Vatican are still trying to block language on homosexuals, prostitutes and drugs users in a plan of action 180 nations must approve. Sue Markham, spokeswoman for the U.N. General Assembly, said on Friday envoys would meet
Role of Hunger in AIDS Battle Highlighted: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 22, 2001; ROME (Reuters) - Eradicating hunger could play a key role in slowing the spread of AIDS, the UN World Food Programme said on Friday. The link between hunger and AIDS is frequently overlooked and must be addressed immediately if the international community is to truly come to grips with this crisis, Namanga Ngongi, the
Labor Body Backs Job Code to Protect AIDS Sufferers: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 22, 2001; Richard Waddington; GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Labor Organization (IL0), which brings together governments, unions and employers, Friday announced it had drawn up a new code to protect the job rights of AIDS sufferers. The code, the first such effort to spell out a policy for dealing with the killer disease at the workplace, wil
World Bank Approves Loan for Mexico Banks, Health: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 22, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Friday it had approved $855 million in new loans for Mexico , aimed at reforming the nation s banking sector and improving health services for the poor. The Washington-based lender said it had approved a $505 million loan for the banking sector, aimed at improving banks ab
Africa Wants Action, Funds From UN AIDS Summit: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 22, 2001; Steven Swindells and Matthew Green; JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa will press next week s United Nations AIDS summit for urgent funds to fight a pandemic striking more than 25 million people in the world s poorest continent. The unprecedented U.N. three-day meeting kicks off in New York Monday and is expected to back a multi-billion dollar plan
New Blood Test Identifies Newly Infected TB Cases: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 21, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - A new blood test to identify people recently infected with tuberculosis could help contain the highly contagious disease, scientists said Friday. Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford said the test is more convenient and provides quicker results and f
AIDS War in Developing World to Cost $9.2 Billion: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 21, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treating HIV-infected people and preventing future infections in the developing world will cost $9.2 billion annually, U.N. officials said on Thursday in a detailed assessment of the price of mounting an effective campaign against the global AIDS pandemic. In a report released ahead of a U.N. sum
South Africa AIDS Orphans Struggle to Survive: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 21, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa s AIDS crisis has left growing numbers of traumatized orphans close to starvation as they struggle to survive on their own, a study headed by former president Nelson Mandela said on Thursday. The Nelson Mandela Children s Fund, led by South Africa s first democratic leader, reveale
Selenium Research Points to Curative Powers: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 20, 2001; Carole Vaporean; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Once thought to be a deadly carcinogen, selenium is now seen as a new wonder mineral that lists cancer prevention, AIDS suppression, and anti-aging among its numerous benefits to humans and animals. Selenium has been recognized as an essential micro-nutrient for over 40 years, but only since the 19
UNAIDS urges business to help in AIDS fight: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 20, 2001; GENEVA, June 20 (Reuters) - A senior official of the United Nations AIDS body on Wednesday urged multinational companies to do their bit in the battle against the killer disease. Speaking as Coca-Cola offered its distribution and marketing expertise to fight AIDS in Africa, associate director of UNAIDS
Medicine Mines Metals to Heal And Cure: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 20, 2001; Sharman Esarey; LONDON (Reuters) - The basic building block of life is carbon. Or is it? If a living organism gets a disease, the answer is organic. Isn t it? The Oxford dictionary says life is the condition that distinguishes active animals and plants from inorganic, or non-carbon, matter. But medical researchers differ. Life is not
Refugee Rapes Fuel AIDS in Africa's War Zones: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 20, 2001; Alistair Thomsom; ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Rape in Africa s refugee camps is fuelling the spread of AIDS and threatens to send infection rates soaring in regions already hard hit by war, an official of the United Nations AIDS body said. Damien Rwegera, UNAIDS adviser for conflict zones in West and Central Africa, told Reuters better coordina
Annan Warns of 'Major Disaster' From AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 19, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Tuesday that the world faced a major human disaster unless it took serious steps to tackle the spread of AIDS. Annan, speaking a week before a UN AIDS conference, said he hoped donor countries would commit the billions of dollars a year needed to
Sex, Money Occupy Envoys at Major UN AIDS Meeting: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 19, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A week before a major UN AIDS conference, delegates are still embroiled on what to say about sex--among prostitutes, homosexuals and outside of marriage in general, according to a frank document on combating the killer disease. The negotiations, says Iranian Ambassador Bagher Asadi, should no
Singer Belafonte Defends Mbeki in AIDS Controversy: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 19, 2001; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - American singer and U.N. goodwill ambassador Harry Belafonte Tuesday defended South African President Thabo Mbeki for creating a broader debate on the AIDS epidemic. Mbeki has been criticized round the world for questioning the causal link between HIV and the AIDS epidemic threat
Holbrooke's new job: Urging business to fight AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 19, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS, June 19 (Reuters) - Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is back at the world body to tell businessmen they should take care of their employees afflicted with AIDS. An early champion of international action to combat the killer disease, Holbrooke said on Tuesday he had ac
Roche, Trimeris extend HIV research partnership: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 19, 2001; BASEL, Switzerland , June 19 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG and Trimeris Inc have extended their partnership to develop and market HIV fusion inhibitors to cover a new generation of the drugs, Roche said on Tuesday. The three-year accord extends a 1999 agreement to share the costs of developing and bringing to market dru
AIDS Is Theme of March to Honor Soweto Students: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 18, 2001; Sue Thomas; SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki led a march on Saturday to salute the South African children who sparked a bloody revolt 25 years ago that signalled the beginning of the end of white rule. But the march appeared to have less to do with politics than with making a statement against HIV/AIDS, which
Sex And Money Occupy Envoys at Major UN AIDS Meet: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 18, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A week before a major U.N. AIDS conference, delegates are still embroiled on what to say about sex -- among prostitutes, homosexuals and outside of marriage in general, according to a frank document on combating the killer disease. The negotiations, says Iranian Ambassador Bagher Asadi, shoul
World Bank Urges Converting AIDS Loans Into Grants: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 15, 2001; Daniel Sternoff; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Urging the world to wake up to the devastating dimensions of Africa s AIDS epidemic, World Bank President James Wolfensohn on Thursday called on donor nations to convert half of a planned $1 billion in zero-interest loans into outright grants to fight the disease. This is not some fringe issue happ
Global AIDS Fund Would Pay Quick Dividend: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 15, 2001; Richard Waddington; GENEVA (Reuters) - The lives of tens of thousands of AIDS suffers in Africa could be immediately prolonged by quick international backing for a multi-billion-dollar fund to fight the scourge, a top UN official said on Friday. The $7-10 billion fund, proposed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, will be a foc
Immune Response rebounds on favorable HIV-drug data: Friday June 15, 2001; NEW YORK, June 15 (Reuters) - Shares of Immune Response Corp. surged on Friday after a firm that has licensed its Remune anti-HIV drug reported positive clinical data among HIV-infected patients in Thailand who were treated with the agent as a sole therapy. The Immune Response rally comes just two weeks after company s
Government Targets Online Herbal Remedy Scams: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 14, 2001; Andy Sullivan; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said Thursday it has taken action against dozens of companies that promised to cure AIDS and a host of other ailments with natural remedies and electric devices sold over the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it had filed complaints against six companies that c
Botswana could get free AIDS drug by Sept: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 14, 2001; Jodie Ginsberg; PRETORIA, June 14 (Reuters) - U.S. drug giant Pfizer could start giving away its anti-fungal drug Diflucan to HIV-infected patients in Botswana as early as September, the company said on Thursday. Pfizer announced last week plans to expand a free drug programme, currently operating only in
Bayer gets license to develop test for HIV: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 14, 2001; TARRYTOWN, N.Y., June 14 (Reuters) - Bayer Diagnostics, a unit of Bayer Corp. on Thursday said it had licensed from Roche Diagnostics GmbH and U.S. diagnostics company Dade Behring the rights to develop, manufacture and market a test to detect exposure to a type of HIV infection. Bayer Corp. is a unit of German drugs a
Indian State to Target Barbers in AIDS Fight: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 13, 2001; CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - India s northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh will send health activists to barber shops to spread awareness about AIDS among the hair-cutting fraternity, a government official said on Tuesday. The official told Reuters that barbers are at high risk for the disease as they have a greater r
AIDS Activists Heckle Mbeki in Scotland: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 13, 2001; Ed Cropley; GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki was heckled by a handful of AIDS activists Wednesday as he opened a new health facility named after his father at Glasgow s Caledonian University. You have got blood on your hands, the 10 protesters shouted as Mbeki, on the second day of his state visit
Activists Hail Kenya's First Generic AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI (Reuters) - AIDS activists in Kenya claimed victory in the war for cheap medicines on Tuesday as an orphanage took possession of the country s first consignment of generic AIDS drugs. Brazil donated the medicines, copies of much more expensive drugs made by global pharmaceuticals firms, as Kenya s parliament pr
Kenya's Parliament Passes AIDS Drugs Bill: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial bill opposed by the global pharmaceutical industry that will allow the east African country to import and manufacture cheap medicines. Lawmakers voted unanimously to approve the Industrial Properties Bill 2001, effectively loosening the pharmac
CDC: Tuberculosis Cases Drop to Record Low: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - New cases of tuberculosis, once a leading killer in the United States , declined to an all-time low last year due to improved screening and treatment of those infected with the lung disease, federal health experts said on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 16,377 new c
Study Details How AIDS Virus Kills Immune Cells: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As it invades the body, the virus that causes AIDS unleashes a domino effect of destruction at the molecular level within immune system cells, ultimately leading to cellular suicide, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego used cutting-edge technology
S.Africa's Mbeki Begins First British State: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; Jeremy Lovell; LONDON (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki flew into Britain on Tuesday for a state visit that will be a judicious mixture of diplomacy and business designed to demonstrate the two countries deep commitment to each other. A smiling Mbeki arrived with his wife Zanelli at the RAF Northolt airfield west of Lon
Activists Hail Kenya's First Generic AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI (Reuters) - AIDS activists in Kenya claimed victory in the war for cheap medicines on Tuesday as an orphanage took possession of the country s first consignment of generic AIDS drugs. Brazil donated the medicines, copies of much more expensive drugs made by global pharmaceuticals firms, as Kenya s parliament pr
Kenya's Parliament Passes AIDS Drugs Bill: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 12, 2001; NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya s parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial bill opposed by the global pharmaceutical industry that would allow the east African country to import and manufacture cheap medicines. MPs voted to accept the Industrial Properties Bill 2001 unanimously, a move that effectively loosens the pharma
Glaxo Offers Cheap AIDS Drugs to More Countries: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 11, 2001; Ben Hirschler; LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Monday it was extending its offer of cheap AIDS drugs to a total of 63 countries, following pressure from activists and charity groups. The medicines will be offered at the cost of production to governments, aid agencies and churches in all least developed countries (LDCs)
Pfizer launches plan to fight AIDS in Uganda: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 11, 2001; Paul Busharizi; KAMPALA, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc, under fire for the high cost of its AIDS drugs, announced plans on Monday to help Uganda combat the epidemic ravaging the country. The New York-based company said it would build a modern AIDS treatment and training centre, allowing the 1.
South Africans Mourn AIDS Boy; Mbeki Shuns Funeral: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday June 9, 2001; Buchizya Mseteka; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of South Africans paid tribute to 12-year-old AIDS activist Nkosi Johnson in an emotional funeral service Saturday shunned by President Thabo Mbeki and his senior ministers. Nkosi, who was born with HIV and died a week ago, reached iconic status. Up to 5,000 people attended the servic
Black Leaders Demand Expansion of War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 8, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - Black leaders urged the Bush administration on Friday to spend an additional $190 million, or 54 percent more than currently budgeted, to fight AIDS among blacks, who account for more than half of all new HIV infections in the United States . In the 1400s the black plague killed a lot of people, but
Drug Firms Meet African Health Ministers on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 8, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Representatives of some of the world s biggest drug firms met African health ministers in South Africa on Friday to try to boost the fight against the AIDS epidemic that is gripping the continent. The meeting, brokered by the head of the United Nations AIDS division
African Ministers Say AIDS Drugs Too Costly: Reuters NewMedia - Friday, June 8 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African health ministers wrapped up an unprecedented meeting with seven of the most powerful drug firms Friday, saying anti-AIDS drugs were still too expensive for their governments facing a devastating AIDS epidemic. Ministers from 11 southern African states, many of which have the highest rat
Bristol-Myers says may seek OK for Sustiva successor: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 8, 2001; NEW YORK, June 8 (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said on Friday it may seek approval in 2003 for a successor to DuPont Co. s anti-HIV treatment Sustiva , if its planned $7.8 billion acquisition of DuPont s pharmaceuticals business is approved by U.S. regulators. Bristol-Myers officials told analysts in a confe
AIDS Strikes Five Nations Hardest: UN Study: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 8, 2001; Evelyn Leopold; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - India , Ethiopia , Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa each have at least 2 million adults suffering from AIDS or infected with the HIV virus, according to a new UN statistical analysis released on Thursday.
UNAIDS Welcomes African Debate on AIDS Epidemic: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 7, 2001; Jodie Ginsberg; DURBAN (Reuters) - The chief U.N. AIDS expert Peter Piot gave credit Thursday to African states that are now openly discussing how to cope with the epidemic that has gripped the continent. For me, what I was most impressed with ... is the fact that people who a few years ago would not have wanted to debate AIDS will no
Lawmakers Battle Over AIDS Funding: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 7, 2001; John Whitesides; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a fight brewing over U.S. funding to fight AIDS in Africa, Democratic lawmakers on Thursday said the Bush administration needed to boost its commitment to battling the disease around the globe. House Democrats, while applauding the administration s recent $200 million contribution to a globa
Report Says South Africa Hospitals Face AIDS Crisis: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 7, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hospitals in South Africa s most AIDS-ravaged province, KwaZulu-Natal, are being overwhelmed by a growing number of AIDS patients, the country s leading medical journal reported in its latest issue. The South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) found urban and rural clinics in the province stretched
Traditional Medicine Soothes S. African Race Divide: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday June 7, 2001; Allan Seccombe; INANDA, South Africa (Reuters) - In a darkened room filled with the pungent aroma of a smoldering sacred plant, a sangoma, a traditional African doctor, nurses a sick man back to health with ancient herbal remedies. This sangoma is a petite young white woman with a limited Zulu vocabulary, but her patients do not doubt
Lawmaker Seeks Hike in Funding to Battle AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 6, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican lawmaker on Wednesday proposed increasing the amount of funds budgeted by the White House to fight AIDS , saying the world was on the verge of a modern-day plague. Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, introduced legislation boostin
Mourners Gather to Remember S. Africa AIDS Boy: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 6, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mourners gathered in Johannesburg on Wednesday for a memorial service to mark the brief life of Nkosi Johnson, the 12-year-old boy who became an icon in South Africa s fight against HIV /AIDS . Johnson was born with HIV and died last Friday after the disease finally broke his frail body. His de
Pfizer Offers Help to HIV-Hit Nations: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday June 6, 2001; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.S. pharmaceutical drug giant Pfizer Inc. announced on Wednesday it would expand distribution of its antifungal drug, Diflucan, free of charge to HIV/AIDS patients in 50 of the world s least developed countries. The drug, generically known as Fluconazole, is now being distributed at no c
UN Says AIDS Has Killed 22 Million, Worst to Come: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 5, 2001; Mike Hutchings; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS with a warning Tuesday that the epidemic, having claimed 22 million lives, was just in its early stages. AIDS has become the most devastating epidemic in human history. On a global scale we are only at the beginning
Thai AIDS Cure Draws Crowds, Skepticism: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 5, 2001; Angela Takats; BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of AIDS patients are flocking to a clinic in central Thailand that claims to have found a miracle cure for the deadly AIDS virus. Last week 4,000 people, some with oxygen masks and in wheelchairs, flooded a gymnasium in Bangkok to get a free week s supply of V-1 Immunitor, which its crea
Top U.S. Health Official Vows Renewed War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday June 5, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty years after the world learned of the existence of AIDS , Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson on Tuesday pledged a new level of commitment in fighting it, but the top government expert on the disease said no one can say when a vaccine will be ready. It has been 20 years an
South Africa Seeks Cheaper Drugs After Court Win: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 4, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa moved on Monday to secure affordable drugs to tackle its AIDS epidemic following a landmark legal victory over pharmaceutical giants wanting to stop the import of low cost medicines. The Health Ministry published 70 pages of draft legislation that would allow it to sh
AIDS Vaccine Elusive 20 Years Into Epidemic: Reuters NewMedia - Monday June 4, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Margaret Heckler, President Ronald Reagan s health and human services secretary, vowed in April 1984 that a vaccine for AIDS would be ready to be tested in people within two years, few could have guessed how wrong she would be. With an estimated 22 million people dead around the world, inclu
UN's Annan Warns AIDS Wrecks World Economic Growth: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 1, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the business community on Friday to run AIDS prevention and treatment programs for workers or watch the killer disease wreak havoc on world economic growth. Declaring HIV/AIDS an unparalleled nightmare, Annan told a US Chamber of Commerce breakfast that the p
South African AIDS Boy Icon Nkosi Dies: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 1, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nkosi Johnson, the 12-year-old South African boy who became an icon in the fight against the AIDS epidemic, lost his battle against the disease Friday. I m sad but it s almost a relief that my little boy is not suffering any more. He has run a race that very few adults have run, said Nkosi s wh
Immune Response's HIV Therapy Off Target: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 1, 2001; CARLSBAD, Calif. (Reuters) - Immune Response Corp. said on Friday a treatment it is developing to combat the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS, did not meet the targets of a mid-stage clinical trial in Spain . The news sent shares of Immune Response plummeting $2.94, or more than 60 percent, to $1.94 in m
New HIV Diagnoses Leap in UK As Complacency Grows: Reuters NewMedia - Friday June 1, 2001; Nick Tattersall; LONDON (Reuters) - British health officials warned on Friday that post-AIDS sexual caution was giving way to complacency as new HIV diagnoses hit a record level. Although British levels are still moderate by Western European standards, the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) said sexual behavior was becoming more i
Study: HIV Rate High Among Young Black Gays: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 31, 2001; Paul Simao; ATLANTA (Reuters) - Young gay and bisexual men, especially in the black community, are becoming infected with HIV at rates like these groups had when the AIDS epidemic peaked in the mid-1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. In a study released to mark the 20th anniversary of the discov
Actress Emma Thompson to Help African AIDS Victims: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 30, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British actress Emma Thompson plans to take a year off work to travel through Africa with her family to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. The two-time Oscar winner will be going to Africa on behalf of the charity Action Aid, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. We have always wanted to do some volunt
Africa Trailing World in Child Welfare: UNICEF: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 29, 2001; Alistair Lyon; CAIRO (Reuters) - Africa has fallen behind the rest of the world in child welfare over the past decade due to a deadly combination of poverty, debt, AIDS and war, the head of the United Nations children s agency said on Monday. There have been too many promises, not enough commitment, UNICEF Executive Director Carol Be
AIDS Ravages Africa Food Output, Demand: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 29, 2001; David Brough; ROME (Reuters) - HIV/AIDS is devastating food production and consumption in Africa and undermining farm incomes, a senior agricultural economist said on Tuesday. In countries with a significant AIDS problem, the impact of AIDS is devastating on food production and consumption, Aidan O Driscoll, chairman of the United N
Differences on sex hold up crucial UN AIDS session: Delegates preparing for a major U.N. AIDS summit missed a weekend deadline to reach consensus on a draft declaration, including the key role of sex in preventing the killer disease.: Reuters NewMedia - May 29, 2001; More than 100 countries have spent the past six days in marathon debates on a declaration that sets among its goals spending up to $10 billion a year by 2005 to combat the virus, which has devastated African nations and is rapidly spreading through Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. But too many parts of the state
Powell Attacked in Kenya Over U.S. AIDS Policy: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday May 27, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell came under fire Sunday from Kenyan AIDS activists angry at what they called the U.S. government s inadequate response to the fight against the disease. Powell, in Kenya on a four-nation tour of Africa, pledged to keep the search for an AIDS cure high on Washing
U.S. Pledges $50 Million to Ugandan AIDS Fight: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday May 27, 2001; Jonathon Wright; KAMPALA (Reuters) - The United States has pledged Uganda $50 million over five years to support its AIDS program, which Washington sees as one of Africa s most successful, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday. Uganda will receive $20 million for extending its prevention and treatment program into new parts of
AIDS Vaccine Suspends Disease in Monkeys: Reuters NewMedia - Friday May 25, 2001; SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc , the world s top supplier of HIV-AIDS drugs, announced on Thursday that its experimental HIV vaccine was able to prevent the development of AIDS in rhesus monkeys exposed to a simian-human immunodeficiency virus. Results from the preclinical trial were presente
Powell in South Africa Talks of AIDS, U.S. Policy: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 24, 2001; Jonathan Wright; PRETORIA (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in South Africa on Thursday and immediately held talks with President Thabo Mbeki on the fight against AIDS, regional conflicts and U.S. policy on Africa. Emerging from talks with Mbeki, Powell said the president fully understood the gravity of the AIDS probl
Glaxo to Cut Cost of AIDS Drugs for Kenya: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 24, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world s top supplier of HIV -AIDS drugs, said on Thursday it intended to slash further the price of its antiretroviral AIDS drug cocktails in Kenya . The move comes as the east African country s parliament prepares to debate a controversial bill to allow the import of cheap
Study: Breast-Feeding Ups Death Risk in HIV Mothers: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 24, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - HIV -positive mothers in developing countries who breast-feed may be endangering their own lives as well as those of their babies, a team of international scientists said Friday. The new research by Kenyan and American doctors, which has met with some skepticism because it contradicts previous studie
Powell Begins Africa Tour Dominated by War, AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 23, 2001; Tiemoko Diallo; BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Mali Wednesday at the start of a four-country African tour likely to be dominated by talk of AIDS and conflict. Powell s tour, which began in West Africa and will take him to South Africa , Kenya and
Colin Powell Starts Emotional African Tour: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 23, 2001; Jonathan Wright; BAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) - Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State to visit Africa, said Wednesday he felt an emotional twinge arriving in the continent which his ancestors left aboard slave ships. There is an emotional connection I always feel when I m in Africa, he told reporters on his plane from
AIDS, Conflicts to Dominate Powell's Africa Trip: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 22, 2001; Jonathan Wright; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives in Africa on Wednesday at the start of a four-country tour which challenges the conventional wisdom that the Bush administration is likely to neglect the continent. Powell, an African American through his Jamaican immigrant parents, has given Africa precede
Campaigners take AIDS drugs fight to Glaxo meeting: Reuters NewMedia - Monday May 21, 2001; LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Campaigners lobbied top management at GlaxoSmithKline Plc on Monday, demanding the drug giant do more to increase access to life-saving medicines for AIDS and other diseases in Africa. Activists from UK charity Oxfam, dressed in white laboratory coats, handed out special pill boxes to shareho
Ukraine Religious Groups Stage Massive AIDS March: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday May 20, 2001; Tony Roddam; KIEV (Reuters) - Thousands of religious activists paraded through Kiev on Sunday, urging bystanders to turn to God and fight AIDS in the biggest demonstration yet seen in the Ukrainian capital. Upwards of 15,000 people from churches and religious organizations across Ukraine marched, cheered and sang their way through
Needle-Swap Programs Grow in Effectiveness: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 17, 2001; ATLANTA (Reuters) - Needle-exchange programs, a controversial HIV prevention approach, are growing in number and effectiveness, a federal study showed on Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 131 of the programs existed in 1998 in the United States , up from 68 in 1994-95. The 110 programs
EU: Global Health Fund Must Not Target AIDS Alone: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 16, 2001; Adrian Croft; BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will not participate in a proposed global health fund if it is aimed exclusively at combating AIDS, because diseases such as malaria are bigger killers in Africa, a top official said on Wednesday. Speaking at a United Nations conference on the world s poorest countries, Euro
US Government Unveils Guide on Women And HIV: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 16, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US government on Tuesday unveiled a first-of-its-kind guide intended to help doctors better understand the unique problems faced by women infected with the virus that causes AIDS . The manual details how the incurable viral disease that ravages the body s immune system affects women different
UN Poll Finds Asian Youth Ignorant About HIV/AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Monday May 14, 2001; BEIJING (Reuters) - Young people in East Asia and the Pacific are woefully unprepared to deal with HIV/AIDS, which is expected to spead dramatically in the region, the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday. A UNICEF poll of youths aged 9 to 17 in 17 Asia-Pacific countries or regions found an alarming i
Egyptian firm says to produce low-cost AIDS drug: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday May 13, 2001; Heba Kandil; CAIRO, May 13 (Reuters) - An Egyptian pharmaceuticals company said on Sunday it would soon start producing two low-cost generic drugs for treating AIDS and leukaemia, to rival higher-priced proprietary brands in the Middle East and Africa. In recent months the multinational drug industry has come under attack for tryin
Executive gets prison for false AIDS cure claims: Reuters NewMedia - Friday May 11, 2001; NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - The former president of New Technologies & Concepts has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for issuing false press releases that claimed the company had developed a cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, prosecutors said on Friday. Alfred Flores, 50, pleaded guilty la
Bush Pledges $200 Million for AIDS, More Wanted: Reutes NewMedia - Friday May 11, 2001; Deborah Charles; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, flanked by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan , announced on Friday the United States would contribute $200 million to a global AIDS fund. We must all show leadership and all share responsibility. For our part I m today committing the United
No Condoms for Prisons: Reuters NewMedia - Friday May 11, 2001; KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Jamaica s Health Ministry said Thursday it had no immediate plan to issue condoms to prison inmates to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS -- an issue that provoked deadly riots four years ago. Acting Chief Medical Officer Deanna Ashley said the ministry and the prisons service were developing a
AIDS Devastating Rural Labor Force in Africa: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday May 10, 2001; ROME (Reuters) - The United Nations world food body said on Thursday that deaths caused by HIV/AIDS in the 10 most affected African countries will reduce the labor force by as much as 26% by 2020. The virus is having a major impact on nutrition, food security, agricultural production and rural societies in many countri
U.S. Plans to Give $200 Million to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday May 9, 2001; Anna Willard; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House intends to contribute $200 million to a global AIDS fund proposed by U.N. Secretary-General Annan, who appealed on Wednesday to the Bush administration to join a worldwide battle against the disease. U.S. sources closely involved in discussions said the United States wou
India's Cipla Plans Cheaper 3-In-1 AIDS Pill: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 8, 2001; Sitaraman Shankar; BOMBAY (Reuters) - Indian drugmaker Cipla Ltd, which sparked cuts in global AIDS drug prices in February, plans to make an AIDS cocktail pill that could cause prices to fall even further, the company chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. We are applying for Indian government permissions to launch three AIDS drugs--
Annan to Donate Prize Money to Global AIDS Fund: Reuters NewMedia - Friday May 4, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will make the first contribution to his proposed global fund to combat AIDS, donating a $100,000 prize he just won for promoting peace, a spokesman said on Thursday. Annan is to receive the cash prize as part of the awarding of the Philadelphia Liberty Medal du
Study: HIV Drug Resistance Increasing in Britain: Reuters NewMedia - Friday May 4, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Medical experts called on Friday for more efforts to encourage safe sex after new research showed HIV drug resistance is increasing in Britain. An estimated 25-27 percent of people in Britain infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year were resistant to one or more anti-AIDS drugs. The p
Burundi to get cheap AIDS drugs from Western firms: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 1, 2001; BUJUMBURA, May 1 (Reuters) - Burundi s government has struck a deal with Western pharmaceutical companies to ensure access to cheap AIDS drugs, becoming the seventh African country to join the U.N.-sponsored scheme, officials said on Tuesday. Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world and among the most affecte
Yeast May Offer Future Vaccine for HIV, Cancer: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 1, 2001; Merritt McKinney; NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Baker s yeast may not be just for making bread anymore, if new animal research pans out. Colorado researchers report that an experimental vaccine developed from baker s yeast activated infection-fighting killer T cells in mice. The preliminary success of the yeast vaccine has researchers hop
S. Africa Takes Steps to Get Cheaper AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday May 1, 2001; Emelia Sithole; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has taken the first steps to accessing cheaper, generic AIDS drugs by signing a declaration of intent with India to foster cooperation on health issues. The declaration, which was signed on Monday, follows the decision last month by global pharmaceutical manufacturers to withdraw a
African Summit Leaders Declare War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 27, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; ABUJA (Reuters) - African leaders declared a state of emergency over AIDS on Friday and vowed to make the fight against the disease their highest priority. Concluding the African AIDS summit in Abuja, 15 heads of state and senior government officials from 43 African nations agreed to create legislation and internationa
World Bank: Momentum Seen for Anti-AIDS War Chest: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 30, 2001; Anna Willard; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Momentum is building for the world s wealthy nations to kick in money toward a war chest to fight AIDS and other infectious diseases in the poorest countries, a senior World bank official said on Monday. Chris Lovelace, the World Bank s director of health, nutrition and population, told Reuters t
Annan Calls on Foundations to Back AIDS War Chest: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 30, 2001; David Morgan; PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Monday for private U.S. foundations to put their financial might behind a new global fund designed to orchestrate a new coordinated attack on the AIDS pandemic. In today s world, there are no health sanctuaries, no separation between foreign and dome
US Says Many HIV Drug Ads Misleading: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 30, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A review of HIV drug advertising found that many promotions are misleading because they do not make clear that the medicines cannot cure infection or reduce viral transmission, US regulators said on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it had changed its position and now considers it a v
African Summit Leaders Declare War on AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 30, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) - African leaders declared a state of emergency over AIDS on Friday and vowed to make the fight against the disease their highest priority. Concluding the African AIDS summit in Abuja, 15 heads of state and senior government officials from 43 African nations agreed to create legislation and int
Africans End 'Uncertainty' in AIDS Fight: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 27, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; ABUJA (Reuters) - African leaders ended the continent s first AIDS summit on Friday by declaring a state of emergency and vowing to make the fight against the disease their highest development priority. In a declaration approved at the end of the two-day summit, the 15 heads of state and representatives from 43 countri
U.S. says many HIV drug ads misleading: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 27, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - A review of HIV drug advertising found that many promotions are misleading because they do not make clear that the medicines cannot cure infection or reduce viral transmission, U.S. regulators said on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it had changed its position and now cons
U.S. says many HIV drug ads misleading: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 27, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - A review of HIV drug advertising found that many promotions are misleading because they do not make clear that the medicines cannot cure infection or reduce viral transmission, U.S. regulators said on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it had changed its position and now cons
UN's Annan Seeks Global War Chest to Combat AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 26, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; ABUJA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed on Thursday a global super-fund to halt the spread of AIDS as Africa rallied political support to combat its worst scourge. Annan unveiled his strategy against AIDS and other infectious diseases at a special African summit in Nigeria and won qualifie
Germany Backs Call for More World AIDS Spending: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 27, 2001; BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Friday that it backed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan s call for an intensified campaign to raise funds for the fight against AIDS. You can count on full support from the German government, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said in a statement. Amid the devastating impact of the HIV
Brazil Pushes AIDS Fight Beyond Borders: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 26, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Little about the Evandro Chagas Hospital housed in a sagging castle or the crumbling brick walls of the Far-Manguinhos drug laboratory suggest that Brazil is on the cutting edge in the fight against AIDS. But inside the shabby buildings, doctors, scientists and government officials ha
Clinton Charm Lights Up Africa AIDS Summit: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 26, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; ABUJA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton joked on Thursday he was attending the African AIDS summit along with Ghana s ex-president Jerry Rawlings as part of the political has-beens delegation. But if private citizen Clinton is a has-been, no one in Nigeria knows it. If Clinton rode in my car, it would cha
Third world debt unpayable says research group: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 26, 2001; Mark Wilkinson; WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - Most of the debt held by poor countries cannot be repaid, a public policy research group said on Thursday, only days after international lenders said they could not afford to completely cancel these debts. Of the $422 billion worth of debt held by 47 of the most impoverished nations in
Experts: No Proof HIV Spread From Polio Vaccine: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 25, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers on Wednesday contradicted a theory that the HIV virus was introduced to humans through a contaminated polio vaccine used in Africa half a century ago. Scientists working in Britain, France , Sweden , the United States and Germany
Hollis-Eden Reports Positive Study: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 24, 2001; LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NasdaqNM:HEPH said on Tuesday that studies in old mice show that its experimental immune regulating hormone boosted antibody response when given together with a hepatitis vaccine, sending the company s shares sharply higher. The San Diego company s stock was up
Tuberculosis, spurred by AIDS, soars in Africa -UN: Reuters NewMedia - April 23, 2001; UNITED NATIONS, April 23 (Reuters) - Tuberculosis cases are expected to double in Africa over the next 10 years, driven by the rapid spread of AIDS, the United Nations said on Monday. The number of TB cases is growing at a rate of 10 percent a year in Africa and will reach 3.3 million a year by 2005, compared with fewe
Immune Response Says AIDS Drug Cut Virus: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 23, 2001; LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Immune Response Corp. (NasdaqNM:IMNR announced Monday that a subset of data from a 1996- 1999 pivotal-stage trial that failed to meet its primary goal nevertheless suggest its experimental AIDS vaccine, Remune, lowered levels of the virus in HIV -positive patients. The news sent the company
U.N.: Asia Risks African-Style AIDS Epidemic: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 23, 2001; BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia risks an AIDS epidemic of African proportions unless it prevents spread of the disease while transmission rates are still low, delegates to a United Nations conference said Monday. I think it s important that we not repeat Africa s mistake, and prevent spread of the disease in the early stages,
Make This 'Century of the Americas,' Summit Says: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday April 22, 2001; QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of 34 countries in the Americas called on Sunday for creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas by the end of 2005 and vowed to work for democracy and human rights. In the final Declaration of Quebec City after a three-day summit, they said democracy was fundamental to all their objec
Nigerian AIDS 'Cures' Harming War on Killer Disease: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday April 22, 2001; D'Arcy Doran; LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria hosts an African AIDS summit this week, but efforts to stem the epidemic are being undermined by the growing number of home-grown cures, experts say. The United Nations says AIDS is Africa s number one killer and the U.N.-sponsored summit, in Abuja from April 25-27, is expected to find ways to
UN Official: Dual Approach Needed to Defeat AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 20, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Cheap drugs will go a long way toward relieving the suffering and diminishing the death toll from AIDS in poor nations, but a two-pronged attack including prevention is needed to defeat the epidemic, a UN official told Reuters. The collapse of the court case by 39 of the world s biggest pharmaceutica
Glaxo says SAfrica deal meets goals of both sides: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 19, 2001; LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland : GSK.L), the world s largest supplier of HIV-AIDS drugs, said on Thursday an out-of-court settlement with South Africa over cheap imports had delivered a victory to both sides.
South Africa Deal May Spark Global Change: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 19, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - The collapse of the South African court case over importing cheap AIDS drugs could spark changes in international trade laws that will improve access to medicines in poor countries, aid groups predicted on Thursday. Thirty-nine of the world s biggest drug companies dropped their controversial legal c
Drug Firms Concede S.Africa's Right to Cheap Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 19, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA (Reuters) - The world s biggest drug makers on Thursday abandoned a bid to stop South Africa from importing cheap copies of their AIDS drugs and acknowledged the right of poor countries to strike the best deals they can. The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PMA) and 39 international dr
Firms drop drug case, AIDS groups rejoice: Reuters NewMedia - April 19, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA (Reuters) - AIDS activists rejoiced Thursday after the world s richest drug makers appeared to wilt under public pressure and withdrew from their legal battle to stop South Africa importing generic AIDS drugs. The decision by 39 drug firms to drop the landmark court case was hailed as a major victory for the w
Drug firms set to retreat from S.Africa case: Reuters NewMedia - April 18, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA (Reuters) - The world s richest drug companies were poised Wednesday to finally withdraw from a landmark South African court case over patented AIDS drugs after suffering a public relations disaster. The case was to resume Thursday amid growing expectations that 39 companies had decided their challenge of a So
S.African AIDS Drug Case Postponed to Thursday: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 18, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA (Reuters) - A court Wednesday postponed a case brought by 39 international pharmaceutical companies to stop South Africa from importing cheap copies of their patented AIDS drugs until 10 a.m. Thursday, as most of the firms withdrew their case. As discussions are still going on, the case is adjourned until 10 a
S.Africa AIDS sufferer pins hope on court case win: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 18, 2001; Buchizya Mseteka; PRETORIA, April 18 (Reuters) - A court case in Pretoria pitting the world s biggest drug firms against the South African government over the right to import generic versions of patented AIDS drugs is a matter of life and death for Nonthantla Maseko. She is just one of the estimated 4.7 million South Africans who are li
Former SmithKline AIDS drug lobbyist joins Oxfam: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 17, 2001; Georgina Prodhan; LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - A former senior lobbyist for British pharmaceuticals giant SmithKline Beecham is to join the charity Oxfam to campaign for cheaper AIDS drugs, he told Reuters on Tuesday. David Earnshaw, who worked on access to medicines in the developing world for two years, said he was frustrated by the d
Drug Makers, Activists Spar Over AIDS Drug Prices: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 17, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - The world s most powerful drug firms came under a deluge of criticism from AIDS activists Tuesday who denounced the industry for putting profits ahead of the lives of the 25 million Africans who live with HIV-AIDS. The attack came ahead of a court case in the South African capital
S. Africa Set to Lock Horns with Drug Industry: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 16, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African lawyers head back to court this week to press their case that the world s most powerful drug firms are immorally keeping poor countries from cheap drugs they need to combat AIDS. In the court action resuming on Wednesday, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Afric
Ethiopia Allows Import of AIDS Drugs for First Time: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 16, 2001; ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has authorized the import of drugs to fight a devastating AIDS epidemic for the first time since the disease was discovered in the country in 1986, the Ministry of Health said on Monday. The ministry called on firms to import affordable medicines to help 2.6 million people suffering fro
AIDS shatters lives in rural South Africa: Reuters NewMedia - April 16, 2001; Allan Seccombe; INGWAVUMA, South Africa , April 16 (Reuters) - AIDS has stolen her parents and her future from 17-year-old Sithandiwe Nyawo. She is in a desperate struggle to care for her three younger siblings with no help from the South African government. The burden of caring for her family weighs heavily on Nyawo. Our future
Mandela slams drug makers, chides S.African govt: Reuters NewMedia - April 15, 2001; Brendan Boyle; JOHANNESBURG, April 15 (Reuters) - Former President Nelson Mandela on Sunday castigated the 39 major pharmaceutical companies that have taken the South African government to court to prevent the import or manufacture of cheap AIDS drugs. But he added in an hour-long Easter interview with the South African Broadcasting
African AIDS 'Not Caused by More Virulent Strain': Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 13 5:34 PM ET; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - As the South African government and drug firms prepare to resume a legal battle over access to anti-AIDS drugs, researchers said Friday the African epidemic was not caused by a more virulent strain of the HIV virus. With 25.3 million sufferers, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of cases of th
Scientists Unravel New Clues About Cunning HIV: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 12, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a protein that permits HIV , the virus that cause AIDS, to evade the immune system. The protein, called Nef, protects HIV-infected cells and at the same time destroys other healthy cells in the immune system, assuring that the virus will thrive. This reveals a real, unfortu
AIDS Group Files Papers Against Drug Firms: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A leading South African AIDS advocacy group filed court papers against the world s most powerful drug firms on Wednesday, charging them with failing to act in the face of the country s AIDS crisis. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) lodged its 800-page affidavit in advance of the resumption of
WHO Urges Pharmaceutical Firms to Cut Prices for Poor: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; OSLO (Reuters) - The director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) urged pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday to make further cuts in the prices of drugs sold in poor countries to combat AIDS and other diseases. A number of drug companies are contributing and have reduced prices fairly considerably, Gro Harlem Brundtl
Scientists Unravel New Clues About Cunning HIV: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified a protein that permits the HIV virus that causes AIDS to evade the immune system. The protein, called Nef, protects HIV-infected cells and at the same time destroys other healthy cells in the immune system, assuring that the virus will thrive. This reveals a real, unfortuna
S.Africa AIDS group lodges papers against drug firms: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, April 11 (Reuters) - A leading South African AIDS advocacy group filed court papers against the world s most powerful drug firms on Wednesday, charging them with failing to act in the face of the country s AIDS crisis. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) lodged its 800-page affidavit ahead of the resumpti
AIDS Activists Threaten Hungerstrike on Drug Firms: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - AIDS activists on Wednesday threatened to go on hunger strike in an attempt to force drug firms to drop their legal action against the South African government for attempting to secure cheaper medicines. Some of the world s most powerful drug firms, including giants GlaxoSmithKline ,
Man Jailed for Lying on Blood Donor Forma: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 11, 2001; SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man who donated HIV-infected blood has been jailed for 15 months for lying on a screening questionnaire about unprotected sex with a prostitute. Neo Swee Chye, a 30-year-old electrician, told District Judge Siva Shanmugam on Tuesday he was in a hurry to fill out the donor form at a mo
Bush Would Boost AIDS, Cancer Research: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 10, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Research aimed at finding a cure for diseases like cancer, AIDS and senile dementia would get a 13.5% boost under the fiscal 2002 budget proposal released by President George W. Bush on Monday. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which conducts and funds medical research and the study of hum
Prosecutors File Appeal in Japan HIV Blood Case: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 10, 2001; TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese prosecutors appealed on Tuesday a lower court ruling that cleared a leading AIDS expert of negligence in a case linked to a scandal that exposed thousands to the HIV virus through tainted blood products. Japanese media reported that the appeal had been made to the Tokyo High Court over a ruli
Bush Names GOP Gay Leader to Head AIDS Office: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 9, 2001; Randall Mikkelsen; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday named a gay man to head the White House AIDS office, which is being revamped to increase efforts at fighting the disease overseas. The White House said Bush named Scott Evertz, Wisconsin president of the gay and lesbian organization Log Cabin Republicans, to head the Whit
Progenics: Drug Curbs HIV in Mouse Study: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 9, 2001; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Monday its experimental drug PRO 140 reduced levels of HIV to undetectable levels in mice that received transplanted human immune cells and were then infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Shares of the Tarrytown, N.Y.-based firm were up $1.99 to $13.49, or
Experts Mull Cheap Drugs for Poor at Norway Talks: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 9, 2001; Alister Doyle; OSLO (Reuters) - Representatives of governments, drug companies and lobby groups met in Norway on Monday to discuss ways to provide the world s poorest people with low-cost medicines to treat AIDS and other crippling diseases. The talks, jointly sponsored by the World Heath Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organi
Mali Signs Cheap AIDS Drug Deal with Western Firms: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 9, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Britain s GlaxoSmithKline Plc said Monday that Mali had become the sixth African country to strike a deal with Western pharmaceutical companies to ensure access to cheap AIDS drugs. The West African country will receive heavily discounted anti-HIV medicines under the United Nations-sponsored initiati
Sankyo, Kureha in tie-up on anti-HIV drug: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 9, 2001; TOKYO, April 9 (Reuters) - Kureha Chemical Industry Co Ltd and Japan s second-biggest drug maker Sankyo Co Ltd have agreed to launch joint research and development to commercialise Kureha s anti-HIV drug, the two companies said on Monday. The drug, CXCR4 Blocker, unites with receptors on the surface of immune cells to
Canada to Relax Rules on Medicinal Marijuana: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 6, 2001; Randall Palmer; OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada plans to make it easier to possess and cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock said on Friday. Rock laid out proposed regulations would allow marijuana to be used by those suffering from terminal illnesses and chronic conditions such as severe arthritis, c
South Africa Says Key AIDS Drugs Still Too Costly: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 6, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Friday that key Western drugs which could be used to fight the country s AIDS epidemic were still too costly. Its concern over the price of anti-retroviral drugs came ahead of the resumption of a landmark court case on April 18, when the most powerful drug firms will attemp
AIDS Medicine Maker Made False Claims: Feds: Reuters NewMedia - Friday April 6, 2001; Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent; NEW YORK (Reuters) - The founder of a company that recently began selling what it touted as a breakthrough AIDS medicine has been arrested for allegedly making false claims about the product and defrauding the FDA , federal prosecutors said on Thursday. M. Keith Ives was arrested by the FBI in Oklahoma on Wednesday on
South Africa AIDS Policy Still Confused: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 5, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa s AIDS policy was mired in confusion on Thursday, a day after a report ordered by President Thabo Mbeki failed to reach consensus on the causes of AIDS and how to combat the deadly disease. The gulf between the 33 scientists and experts on the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel was s
Hepatitis C Spreads Mostly Unchecked in Prisons: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 5, 2001; Alan Elsner, National Correspondent; SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (Reuters) - Hepatitis C, a silent killer that attacks the liver, is rampant among the almost two million inmates of U.S. prisons and jails but authorities are making only half-hearted efforts to combat it, medical and prison experts say. The prevalence of this disease is believed to be 30 to 40 perc
Firms promise more AIDS-drug price cuts for poor: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday April 5, 2001; Abigail Levene; AMSTERDAM, April 5 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan won agreement from six major drug companies on Thursday to keep cutting prices of AIDS treatments for the world s poorest nations. The companies have agreed to continue and accelerate reducing prices substantially, with a special emphasis on the least dev
Cameroon signs up for cheap AIDS drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 4, 2001; LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - Cameroon on Wednesday became the fifth African country to strike a deal with major pharmaceutical companies to ensure cheap access to AIDS drugs. GlaxoSmithKline , the world s largest supplier of HIV/AIDS medicines, said the West African country had reached agreement with five leading drug f
South Africa to Act on Basis HIV Causes AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 4, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A controversial panel appointed by South African President Thabo Mbeki to look into the causes of AIDS has accepted the premise that the plague ravaging the country is caused by HIV, at least for now. Pending the outcome of further research the debates of the panel have not provided grounds for
Drug firms say S.Africa fails to take up AIDS offers: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday April 4, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, April 4 (Reuters) - The world s biggest drug firms have attacked South Africa for failing to take up offers of cheap AIDS drugs to combat the country s health crisis. Accusations that Pretoria was not interested in securing discounted anti-AIDS drugs despite an AIDS epidemic were levelled in an affidavit
S.Africa Clashes with EU on AIDS Policy Criticism: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 3, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has rebuked European Union criticism of its controversial AIDS policy, saying that Europe should instead learn from South Africa s success in combating an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Tuesday released a letter sent to
Merck uses Crucell technology in HIV clinical trial: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday April 3, 2001; AMSTERDAM, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. drug maker Merck and Co. is using Dutch biotechnology firm Crucell s PER.C6 technology in its HIV vaccine programme, Crucell said on Tuesday. Merck is conducting early clinical trials using novel technology it hopes will lead to the development of a vaccine that can prevent HIV (huma
Experimental AIDS Vaccine Shows Promise: Reuters NewMedia - Monday April 2, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental AIDS vaccine forged from the virus that causes the common cold blocked the disease from developing into its full-blown stage in laboratory monkeys, although it did not prevent the actual infection, a top scientist at Merck & Co. Inc. said on Monday. The findings point to t
Brazil urges talks with Roche on AIDS drug price: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 30, 2001; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , March 30 (Reuters) - Brazil said on Friday it would make a new bid to persuade Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG to follow the example of U.S. firm Merck and cut the price of its AIDS drugs in Brazil. If Roche failed to do so, the country would ignore the patent on the drug Nelfinavir and make
Abbott HIV Drug Wins European Approval: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 30, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc said on Friday its HIV/AIDS drug Kaletra had won marketing approval from the European Medicines Evaluation Agency. Kaletra is a second-generation protease inhibitor, a class of medicines that inhibit the protease enzyme which the HIV virus depends upon to replicate itsel
Targeted Genetics Says HIV Vaccine Promising: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 30, 2001; Deena Beasley; LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Targeted Genetics Corp. on Friday said an animal trial of its experimental vaccine against the monkey form of the HIV virus prompted a strong response from T-cells, the immune system cells that kill foreign invaders. Targeted Genetics shares were up $1-1/16, or nearly 35 percent, at $4-1/8 in mi
Brazil wins fight over prices of Merck AIDS drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 29, 2001; Katherine Baldwin; SAO PAULO, March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. drug maker Merck and Co. has agreed to slash the prices of two AIDS drugs in Brazil , bowing to pressure from the government, which was poised to break the drugs patents, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. After weeks of negotiations, Merck agreed to drop the price of
Japan Fumes Over 'Not Guilty' HIV Blood Verdict: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 29, 2001; Elaine Lies; TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese newspapers reacted with rage to the acquittal on Wednesday of an AIDS expert in a case linked to the exposure of thousands to HIV, while local media said prosecutors appeared ready to appeal the verdict. The Tokyo District Court found Takeshi Abe, 84, once vice-president of Teikyo University
Japanese Doctor Found Not Guilty in HIV Blood Case: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 28, 2001; Elaine Lies; TOKYO (Reuters) - In a decision that outraged AIDS activists, a Japanese court on Wednesday found an expert in the disease not guilty of negligence in a case linked to a scandal that exposed thousands to HIV through tainted blood products. The ruling, extremely rare in a country where guilty verdicts are handed down in
Abbott to sell AIDS drugs at "no profit" in Africa-WSJ: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 27, 2001; NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc. is planning to sell its two AIDS drugs and its HIV diagnostic test at no profit in sub-Saharan Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Tuesday. The move is the latest response to the growing public outcry over international AIDS-drug pric
Brazil: Merck Warns It May Sue Over AIDS Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Monday March 26, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - U.S. drug maker Merck and Co Inc. has threatened to take Brazil s state-owned pharmaceutical firm to court for allegedly violating the patent on an AIDS drug, Brazilian officials said on Monday. Merck says Brazil s Far-Manguinhos laboratory violated its patent on Stocrin by importing a generi
Gates Foundation Gives $10 Million to Diagnose TB: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 23, 2001; GENEVA (Reuters) - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has donated $10 million through his charitable foundation to a World Health Organization-based program to develop new tests to diagnose tuberculosis, WHO said on Friday. TB kills more people than any other infectious disease for which there is a known cure, according to
S.Africa AIDS Figures Highest in World -- U.N.: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 22, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has more people living with HIV -AIDS than any other country in the world, the United Nations said on Thursday. The bleak assessment came after Pretoria earlier this week released data that showed 4.7 million South Africans, or one in nine of the population, were living with the de
G7 Leaders to Tackle AIDS Drugs Access at Summit: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 21, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Leaders of the rich industrial world will study ways to help developing countries access AIDS drugs and other life-saving medicines at their July summit in Genoa, Italy , a British official said on Wednesday. Pressure is growing for action, particularly in Africa where a high-profile court case broug
Activists demand more access to novel AIDS drug: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 20, 2001; Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent; LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Activists demanded on Tuesday that two companies improve access to a revolutionary new AIDS drug, T-20, which could save the lives of thousands of people who fail to respond to conventional therapy. T-20 is the first of a new class of anti-HIV drugs called fusion inhibitors, which work by p
Indian Government, Global Group to Develop AIDS Vaccine: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 20, 2001; Sugita Katyal; NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - India sealed a deal with a global AIDS research group on Monday to develop an AIDS vaccine for the country in a bid to check the disease, which has grown to alarming levels over the past decade. The New York-based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has teamed up with the Health Ministry
WHO Opens Drug Facility to Stem Tuberculosis Spread: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 20, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - The UN s World Health Organization launched a new drug facility Tuesday to improve access to life-saving tuberculosis treatments in developing countries over the next 5 years. Although a TB cure has been available for more than 50 years, more people are dying from it than ever before and it is now th
Report: Priests, Missionaries Sexually Abuse Nuns: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 20, 2001; Steve Pagani; VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican acknowledged Tuesday a damning report that some priests and missionaries were forcing nuns to have sex with them, and were in some cases committing rape and forcing the victims to have abortions. Some nuns were forced to take the contraceptive pill, the report cited in the Rome dail
S.Africa Reportedly Rejects 1 Million Free AIDS Tests: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday March 18, 2001; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa s government has rejected a U.S. company s offer of one million free AIDS test kits to help combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has devastated the country, a local newspaper reported Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper said the million-kit donation offer from U.S. drug f
San Francisco may ban "sexy" ads for HIV drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 15, 2001; Andrew Quinn; SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) - San Francisco may become the first city in the nation to ban sexy advertising for HIV drugs -- with officials and activists saying images depicting AIDS patients as handsome, healthy and strong may be encouraging unsafe sexual practices. Tom Ammiano, the president of the San Francisc
Cost of AIDS treatment in U.S. declining: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, March 14, 2001; BOSTON, March 14 (Reuters) - The average annual cost of treating a person with the AIDS virus in the United States has declined by nearly 10 percent since 1996, but the savings come from lower hospital costs, not drug price cuts, researchers said in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine. The research put the a
Brazil to launch AIDS vaccine human trials in April: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 14, 2001; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , March 14 (Reuters) - Brazil, one of the pioneering countries in free AIDS treatment, will begin trials of AIDS vaccines on 40 volunteers in April as part of a global program, researchers said on Wednesday. Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro aim to have the preliminary resul
Study Finds Lower Virus Levels Trigger AIDS in Women: Reuters NewMedia - March 14, 2001; Gene Emery, Reuters; BOSTON -- HIV-positive women develop symptoms of AIDS when less of the virus is present in their bloodstream than men, according to a new study, a finding that could lead to changes in treatment guidelines for women with the virus. Current guidelines, which do not take gender into account and which specify therapy when
Bristol-Myers Offers Africa $1-A-Day AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 14, 2001; Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb raised the stakes in a scramble to cut AIDS drug prices in Africa on Wednesday by announcing it would sell two drugs for a combined $1 a day, a price it said was below cost. The move comes one week after rival Merck and Co unveiled its own round of new price cuts, and is further
AIDS Drugs Extend Survival Time Fourfold: Reuters NewMedia - March 14, 2001; CHICAGO, March 13 � Drug treatment has quadrupled to four years the median survival time for Americans after an AIDS diagnosis, researchers said today. A study of the 394,705 Americans found to have AIDS from 1984 to 1997, and reported to the surveillance system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atla
S. Africa Not Declaring AIDS a National Emergency: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 13, 2001; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa resisted calls on Tuesday to declare AIDS a national emergency, a move that would allow it to import generic medicines regardless of objections from drug firms claiming abuse of patent rights. Cabinet has never considered the issue of utilising emergency measures in relation to pro
Russia Rings Alarm Bells on Drugs, HIV Surge: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 13, 2001; Andrei Shukshin; MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov drew a catastrophic picture Tuesday of rocketing drugs use in Russia and warned the trend put the country s future in jeopardy. Drug addiction was spreading fastest among young people and brought deadly diseases such as AIDS in its wake, he said. Drugs-related crim
Syringe Wielding Muggers Terrorize City: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, March 13, 2001; HANOI (Reuters) - Muggers in Vietnam s southern Ho Chi Minh City have been threatening to jab people with what they say are HIV-infected hypodermic needles to persuade them to part with money and jewelry, state-run media reported on Tuesday. The Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper said incidents had been reported in passenger b
Red Cross Slams Drug Firms Over Pricing Policies: Reuters NewMedia - Monday March 12, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - The International Red Cross said on Monday humanitarian needs should prevail over commercial concerns to ensure life-saving drugs are available in developing countries. The global relief organisation s stand raises the pressure on 39 drug companies battling the South African government over its right
Glaxo chief likens generic drug makers to pirates: Reuters NewMedia - Monday March 12, 2001; BOSTON, March 12 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline s chief executive on Monday likened an Indian generic drug maker to a pirate and said its offer to supply humanitarian groups was a desperate effort to save its own business. They re pirates. That s about what they are .... They ve never done a day of research in their lives
Live-Virus AIDS Vaccine May Hike Some Death Rates: Reuters NewMedia - Monday March 12, 2001; Will Dunham; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of a weakened strain of live HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- in mass vaccination campaigns may actually increase death rates from the disease in many countries, researchers said on Monday, describing a medical Catch-22 situation. A research team headed by a University of California a
Ivory Coast Strikes Deal for Cheap AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday March 10, 2001; ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The government of Ivory Coast said on Saturday it had struck a deal with leading pharmaceutical companies to slash the price of HIV/AIDS treatment. Assana Sangare, junior minister for the fight against AIDS, said Merck Glaxo SmithKline and Bristol Myers Squibb had agreed to cut the price of anti-ret
Mauritania Seeks Imam's Help in Fighting AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 9, 2001; NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Muslim community leaders in Mauritania are taking part in a state-sponsored seminar to raise their own awareness of the problem of AIDS so they can in turn educate their communities. The gathering in the capital Nouakchott of around 20 Imams and heads of Muslim schools takes place amidst rising c
S.Africa HIV Carriers Slam Drug Firms: Reuters NewMedia - Friday March 9, 2001; Jeremy Lovell; KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Ntombozuko Khwaza was devastated when she found she had HIV in 1998, but anti-retroviral drugs and the support of her friends have helped her open a new chapter in her life. Before HIV I had no job and did nothing for my community. Now I am more open to other people and I am in com
AIDS Drugs Land in South Africa Amid Patent Dispute: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 8, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - AIDS drugs donated by U.S. drug giant Pfizer Inc. arrived in South Africa Thursday as the government and pharmaceutical industry faced off over the right of the world s poor to cheap drugs. The 95,000 bottles of Pfizer s anti-AIDS drug Diflucan are to be distributed to public hosp
Bush Slammed on Anti-Abortion Rule: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 8, 2001; Patricia Reaney; LONDON (Reuters) - Family planning experts accused President George W. Bush on Thursday of adopting a fascist approach and creating a double standard by blocking U.S. funding for international groups that support abortion. At the launch of a new report on sexual and reproductive health which shows the risk of dying dur
Bill Gates eyes new gift to UN AIDS programs: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 8, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS, March 8 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates called on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday to explore new ways his foundation could help the United Nations to battle AIDS. Gates, the world s richest person, and his wife Melinda met Annan for about 50 minutes for initial talks on how
Monkey Study Shows Promise for AIDS Vaccine: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 8, 2001; Lisa Richwine; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers reported on Thursday that an AIDS vaccine kept monkeys healthy for months after infection with an HIV-like virus, and scientists plan to begin testing early next year whether the same approach works with people. Scientists called the results encouraging but cautioned that they did not
Merck says AIDS drugs price cuts not for Brazil: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 7, 2001; Shasta Darlington; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil , March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Merck and Co Inc. said on Wednesday that it is not yet extending to Brazil the deep discounts on two AIDS drugs that it announced earlier for countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Merck said it would offer the drugs at no profit to developing countries, fueling h
Botswana Diamond Firm to Help Workers with HIV-AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 7, 2001; GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana s diamond mining giant Debswana said on Wednesday it would pay for antiretroviral AIDS drugs for its workforce. The move represented one of the biggest corporate AIDS funding programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, which is at the epicentre of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. To extend employees producti
ANALYSIS-S.Africa drug case highlights AIDS tragedy: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 7, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Reuters) - An angry face-off over patents between the world s biggest drug firms and the South African government has turned attention back to the desperate plight of the millions of Africans with AIDS. Thirty-nine of the largest pharmaceutical firms began a court challenge this week against legi
Merck Leads New Round of AIDS Drugs Price Cuts: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday March 7, 2001; Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Merck and Co Inc. said on Wednesday it was slashing the price of two AIDS drugs in developing countries and would make no profit on their sale. The move, effective immediately, comes as the pharmaceutical industry is embroiled in a fierce legal battle over access to cheap drugs with th
Trials of AIDS Vaccine Launched in Kenya: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 6, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya formally launched trials Tuesday of an AIDS vaccine developed from research on a group of prostitutes in a Nairobi slum. Scientists said it would take eight years before the vaccine could be declared a success but said they were convinced that the development represented Africa s best c
Kenya Will Import Cheap Generic AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 6, 2001; Adrian Blomfield; NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya s health minister said on Tuesday he would introduce legislation to allow the country to import cheaper generic AIDS drugs, slamming multinational pharmaceutical companies. Sam Ongeri said he would use a World Trade Organization clause which allows countries to engage in parallel importation
South African AIDS Drug Case Postponed Until April: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday March 6, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) - A court action brought by the world s biggest pharmaceutical companies to stop South Africa importing cheaper AIDS drugs was postponed Tuesday to allow testimony on the misery caused by the killer disease. The delay until April 18 was ordered to enable the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Protests As Drugs Firms Take on S.African Govt: Rueters NewMedia - Monday March 5, 2001; Steven Swindells; PRETORIA (Reuters) - The global drug industry took South Africa s government to court on Monday in a landmark challenge condemned by several thousand AIDS activists parading through Pretoria with posters saying Lives before profits. The hearing at the Pretoria High Court is seen as a test of the ability of the richest
SEC Suspends Trade in Ives Health: Reuters NewMedia - Monday March 5, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal securities regulators on Monday suspended trading in Ives Health Co. Inc. (IVEH.OB) through March 16, questioning the accuracy of claims the firm has made about an HIV treatment. The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement that it issued the suspension because of questions
Patients Versus Profits in South African Court Case: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday March 4, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The global drug industry goes to battle in a South African court Monday to defend billion-dollar patent rights against a government demanding cheaper medicines to fight a runaway AIDS plague. The action filed by 39 of the world s leading firms led by Britain s GlaxoSmithKline is seen as a l
Mushers Chase Separate Goals As Iditarod Starts: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday March 3, 2001; Yereth Rosen; ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sixty-eight mushers and their dogs began the annual 1,100-mile trek to Nome on Saturday as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began with a ceremonial run from downtown Anchorage. Three-time champion Jeff King of Denali, Alaska, was the first out of the start chute, in accordance with a sched
Rat Protein May Provide 'Chemical Condom': Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 1, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese researchers said on Thursday they had found a gene in rats that seemed to produce a compound that defends against sexually transmitted diseases. It has the potential for powerful effects against various microbes, including the AIDS virus and those causing other sexually transmitted diseas
ANALYSIS-Drug firms in South African fight for patents: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday, March 1, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG, March 1 (Reuters) - The world s most powerful drug firms go head-to-head with the South African government next week in a landmark case that could decide the developing world s access to affordable medicines, including AIDS drugs. The drug industry goes to the Pretoria High Court on Monday in a bid to str
Ebola, AIDS Drafted in Cystic Fibrosis Quest: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 1, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two unlikely sources of medical good -- the viruses that cause Ebola and AIDS -- have been drafted into an attempt to find a treatment for cystic fibrosis, researchers said on Thursday. The two viruses have been gutted and stitched together to make an agent meant to carry gene therapy into the lu
Official: Teenage AIDS Rate in South Africa Easing: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday March 1, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African teenagers appear to be practicing safer sex, resulting in a slowdown of HIV infection rates within the critical age group, the country s top health manager said on Thursday. Signs of change in sexual attitudes would be welcome news for South Africa where 4.2 million people -- or o
Firm Creates Africa AIDS Fund to Deliver Free Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 28, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small U.S. firm said on Wednesday it was creating a $250 million fund to buy AIDS drugs and distribute them free in Africa where price and infrastructure are huge barriers to keeping patients healthy. The company, Phyto-Riker, said it has the backing of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the governme
Roche AIDS eye drug backed by U.S. advisory panel: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday February 27, 2001; GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb 27 (Reuters) - Swiss drug giant Roche Holdings Ltd. won unanimous support from U.S. advisers on Tuesday for a new oral drug to treat vision problems in AIDS patients. A Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) advisory panel voted to back valganciclovir for treatment of the sight-threatening viral in
Brazil Urges UN to OK Copying Patented AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 26, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Brazil , the country with Latin America s highest AIDS infection rate, urged the U.N. General Assembly on Monday to recognize the right of its 189 member nations to manufacture copies of patented AIDS drugs. The General Assembly, at its upcoming special session on AIDS to be held in New York
Glaxo promises cheap drugs for poor, more R&D: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 26, 2001; LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc, under fire for the high cost of its AIDS drugs in Africa, pledged on Monday to supply medicines at deep discounts to a new global fund proposed by the UK government. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown unveiled plans for an international purchase fund for med
India's Cipla says AIDS drugs talks soon with WHO: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 26, 2001; Sitaraman Shankar; BOMBAY, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Indian generic drug maker Cipla Ltd said on Monday it would soon start talks with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to supply cheap generic versions of AIDS drugs to the world s poor. Cipla startled the global drugs industry earlier this month with an offer to supply AIDS drugs for under $1
China Admits Having More Than 22,000 HIV Carriers: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 26, 2001; BEIJING (Reuters) - China had 22,517 known HIV carriers at the end of last year, most of them drug users, and the real number could be many times higher, state television reported on Monday. It quoted Health Ministry experts as saying China could have more than 600,000 carriers. The United Nations has said China will h
AIDS Complication Believed Due to Long Use of Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Friday February 23, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish AIDS researchers said on Friday prolonged use of anti-AIDS cocktails, and not a single drug, probably caused patients to develop unusual fat deposits on the upper back. Lipodystrophy is a distressing side effect of the anti-AIDS cocktail. It causes so-called buffalo humps on the upper back an
Glaxo Plans Human Trials of AIDS Vaccine This Year: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday February 22, 2001; Ben Hirschler, European Pharmaceuticals Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it aimed to test a novel AIDS vaccine on humans later this year, after studies on monkeys showed it offered protection lasting more than a year. Jean Stephenne, head of vaccine research at the Anglo-American drugs group, told an investor meeting that clinical tria
Ex-Porn Star Runs California Medical Clinic: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday February 22, 2001; Jon Kalish; LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a modest storefront in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, a former porn movie star and drug addict operates a medical clinic with a unique mission: to serve performers in the adult film industry. Sharon Mitchell, who shot heroin and X-rated sex films for more than 20 years, runs th
California's Maxygen to Work on AIDS Vaccine: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday February 21, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California company that aims to develop vaccines by shuffling genes said on Tuesday it was working to create an AIDS vaccine. Maxygen Inc., based in Redwood City, California, said it was being helped in the effort by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a nonprofit group pressing f
AIDS Drug Costs Must Fall in Poor Nations: UN: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday February 21, 2001; Irwin Arieff; UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Drug companies and governments must do more to bring down the cost of AIDS therapies so that patients in poor nations can gain access to treatment, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday. While effective drugs against AIDS and related infections are available and softening the diseas
S.Africa okays Pfizer AIDS drug distribution: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 21, 2001; Emelia Sithole; JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) - South Africa has approved the supply in tablet form of Pfizer s anti-AIDS drug Diflucan, paving the way for its free distribution in the public health sector, Pfizer and health authorities said on Wednesday. The approval follows the signing in early December of a landmark deal between S
Glaxo to widen access to cheap AIDS drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 21, 2001; LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Wednesday it was taking steps to increase access to discounted HIV/AIDS drugs in poor countries by supplying medicines to a range of non-profit-making bodies. Chief Executive Jean-Pierre Garnier told a conference call that the world s biggest drugs company by sales
U.S. AIDS activists target Glaxo over drug prices: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday February 20, 2001; NEW YORK, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Six AIDS activists were arrested on Tuesday during a demonstration at a GlaxoSmithKline Plc office in New York over access to medicines in poor countries, protesters said. About 30 protesters threw empty pill bottles, chanted and waved signs saying Glaxo s Greed Kills in the lobby of a Man
Gilead says HIV treatment meets goal in trials: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, February 20, 2001; NEW YORK, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Drug maker Gilead Sciences Inc. said on Tuesday that late-stage trials of its anti-HIV treatment tenofovir met their primary objective of lowering the presence of the virus. Analysts said the data from tenofovir are positive and could lead to a Food and Drug Administration New Drug Applicat
South African AIDS Campaign Targets Pre-Teen Sex: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday February 20, 2001; Jeremy Lovell; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African children tend to start having sex before their teens and they must be persuaded to postpone the experience or risk seeing the rampant AIDS epidemic devastate the country, campaigners said Tuesday. The answer to the HIV/AIDS epidemic lies with young South Africans. We have to delay th
Gilead Says HIV Trials Meet Goals: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, February 20, 2001; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drug maker Gilead Sciences Inc. said on Tuesday that late-stage trials of its anti-HIV treatment tenofovir met their primary objective of lowering the presence of the virus. Analysts said the data from tenofovir are positive and could lead to a Food and Drug Administration New Drug Application by m
India Underestimates AIDS Cases, Says Activist: Reuters NewMedia - Friday February 16, 2001; Sugita Katyal; NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India vastly underestimates its HIV-infected population and the number could double if the spread of the disease is not checked immediately, a French humanitarian activist said on Friday. Official figures were deceptive because they were based on testing in urban areas and did not include more vul
Nigeria Orders Tests on Local Cure for HIV Virus: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday February 15, 2001; ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian parliament on Thursday ordered clinical trials of vaccines local scientists said they had developed for the HIV virus which gives rise to AIDS. The directive followed a legal battle between local scientist Jeremiah Abalaka and Nigeria s Health Ministry over a ban on a vaccine Abalaka deve
FEATURE-Rule-breaker MAC Cosmetics helps AIDS cause: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday February 15, 2001; Rajiv Sekhri; TORONTO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - For many, Viva Glam lipstick is a fashion statement with its former transvestite spokesmodel RuPaul and its brilliantly odd hues, but for millions infected with HIV and AIDS around the world, the lipstick is a lifeline. All the money from sales of Viva Glam lipsticks in more than 30 countrie
World Bank Warns on AIDS Increase in Cameroon: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday, February 15, 2001; YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The HIV and AIDS infection rate in Cameroon has increased more than 20-fold over the past decade and would most likely rise further, the World Bank said on Thursday. The situation of HIV/AIDS is extremely worrying. The current rate of infection is 11 percent, which is very high, and we think it will
AIDS Treatment May Lead to Unsafe Sex--US Study: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday February 15, 2001; SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - People infected with HIV who are taking powerful new anti-viral drugs are four times more likely to contract other sexually transmitted diseases than those not on the drugs, a sign the new treatments may be encouraging unsafe sex, a municipal study has found. The study--carried out by the San
AIDS Workers Hand Out Condoms for Valentine's Day: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday February 14, 2001; Chee-may Chow; HONG KONG (Reuters) - AIDS workers in Hong Kong marked Valentine s Day on Wednesday by distributing eye-catching and flavoured condoms in the hope of lifting the taboo on discussions of safe sex. One of the dangers is that because it is embarrassing and unmentionable, people make false assumptions which can increase th
Study: AIDS Drugs Help Even When Virus Is Resistant: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 14, 2001; BOSTON (Reuters) - The AIDS cocktail is a useful treatment even for people harboring a form of the human immune deficiency virus that shows resistance to the drugs, researchers report in Thursday s New England Journal of Medicine. In many patients, the cocktail, a combination of at least three drugs, seems to eliminate
Bad news on HIV an opportunity for test companies: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 14, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - AIDS doctors are worried by news that mutant, drug-resistant strains of HIV are spreading through the United States and Europe, but companies that test for such strains are poised to profit from the development. The AIDS virus evolves so rapidly that it can quickly develop resistance in a
South Africa Mining Firms Test Workers for AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, February 13, 2001; Steven Swindells; JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Major South African mining firms have started to test miners anonymously for AIDS in an attempt to come to terms with a disease that threatens to devastate their workforce. The testing of miners saliva is expected to show that roughly a quarter of the country s 500,000 miners are living with th
Libya Said Delaying HIV Trial of Bulgarian Medics: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday February 10, 2001; SOFIA (Reuters) - A Libyan court on Saturday postponed for the ninth time the trial of six Bulgarian health workers charged with deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus, Bulgarian state radio said. The medics trial formally opened on February 7, 2000. The five nurses and a doctor, detained
South Africa's Mbeki Appeals for National Unity: Reuters NewMedia - Friday February 9, 2001; Jeremy Lovell; CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - President Thabo Mbeki, who has been dogged by controversy, on Friday urged South Africans to shake off the legacy of 300 years of racial oppression, crime and violence, in his third state of the nation address. We call on all our people across the color line to dedicate this year to building unity
Drug-Resistant AIDS Virus Spreads, Studies Find: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday February 7, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surprising 14 percent of new U.S. cases of HIV infection are already resistant to drugs that treat the virus, doctors said on Wednesday -- meaning everyone newly diagnosed with HIV needs to find out which drugs are doomed to fail from the outset. And at least 10 percent of people newly infected
Indian Firm Offers AIDS Cocktail for $1 a Day: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday, February 7, 2001; Sitaraman Shankar and Ben Hirschler; BOMBAY/LONDON (Reuters) - Indian generic drugmaker Cipla Ltd. said Wednesday it would supply a triple-cocktail of AIDS drugs to the world s poor at less than $1 a day, significantly undercutting multinational companies. The Indian group, which makes cheap copies of drugs that are patent-protected in other countries, is
Gene Therapy Approach May Work for AIDS - Company: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, February 6, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers trying out a unique gene therapy approach to AIDS said on Tuesday it just might work -- and might offer an alternative to a lifetime of taking complicated drug cocktails for the infection. They have not made any HIV-infected patients better, but claimed a victory in getting their pati
New HIV Drugs Offer Help to Long-Term Patients: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday February 6, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New drugs that stop the AIDS web virus from getting into the cells it attacks may soon offer an extra line of defense to long-term patients, researchers say. The new generation of drugs may help attack mutated versions of the virus that have learned how to evade current drugs, a development known
Brazil May Defy U.S. And Make More AIDS Drugs: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 5, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Government Revises HIV Treatment Guidelines: Reuters NewMedia - Monday February 5, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
One in 10 Urban Gays Have HIV, Study Finds: Reuters NewsMedia - Monday February 5, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
AIDS a 'National Security Problem,' Powell Says: Reuters NewMedia - Sunday February 4, 2001; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday he viewed AIDS as a national security problem, adding that we all need to do more to fight the disease that is killing millions of people in Africa. Former President Clinton s administration first termed the spread of AIDS a threat to national securi
Scientists grope for small gains at AIDS meetings: Reuters NewMedia - February 4, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
BioChem gets U.S. patent for improved AIDS cocktail: Reuters Newmedia - Wednesday January 31, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Great Bio-Treasure Hunt in Australia's Barrier Reef: Reuters Newmedia - Wednesday January 31, 2001; Diana Taylor; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Trimeris, Roche say HIV drug candidates potent inhibitors: Reuters NewMedia - Monday January 29, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Merck Says FDA OK's Antifungal Cancidas: Reuters NewMedia - Monday, January 29, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Microsoft's Gates Pledges $100 Million to Fight AIDS: Reuters NewMedia - Saturday, January 27, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Pfizer says restricts use of experimental HIV drug in tests: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 25, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Rwanda Set to Clinch Cut-Price AIDS Drugs Deal: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 25, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
HIV Diagnoses in Britain Reach Record Level: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 25, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
NY Doesn't Give AIDS Funds to Minority Groups: Study: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday January 24, 200; Joan Gralla; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Italy AIDS Vaccine at Human Testing Stage: Reuters NewMedia - Friday January 19, 2001; Julia Hancock; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Virologic says trial of HIV test fails to meet endpoints: Reuters NewMedia - Friday January 19, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Back Off a Bit on HIV Drugs, Experts Decide: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday, January 18, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
AIDS Cocktail Patients May Not Need Pneumonia Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday January 17, 2000; Gene Emery; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Zeria plans US clinical trial for HIV drug: Reuters NewMedia - Tuesday, January 16, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Drug Companies Sue S. African Government: Reuters NewMedia - Monday, January 15, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Possible New HIV Drug Stops Breaking And Entering: Thursday January 11, 2001; Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
South Africa Stops AIDS Plan Over Fear of Attacks: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 11, 2001; Steven Swindells; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Zambia Pulls AIDS Campaign After Church Opposition: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday January 10, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
AIDS Taking Deadly Toll on S. African Youth: Reuters NewMedia - Wednesday January 10, 2000; Steven Swindells; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
US, Bristol-Myers Squibb Issue HIV Drug Warning: Reuters NewMedia - Friday January 5, 2000; Lisa Richwine; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
U.S. Issues Warning on Use of Anti-AIDS Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday, January 5, 2001; Mike Cooper; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
Car Thieves Drink HIV-Infected Blood: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 4, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
FAO Says AIDS a Bigger Threat in Countryside: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 4, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.
EC Approves GlaxoSmithKline HIV Drug: Reuters NewMedia - Thursday January 4, 2001; LONDON (Reuters) - British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it had received approval from the European Commission to market Trizivir , a drug to treat HIV. GlaxoSmithKline said the EC has approved Trizivir to be marketed in all 15 member states of the European Union.

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