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BREAKING NEWS India helping South African drugmakers slash costs of AIDS medicine NEW DELHI (AFP) Mar 05, 2004 India is working with South African pharmaceutical companies in a bid to give AIDS patients access to cheap anti-retroviral drugs, a South African foreign trade official said Friday. Mother of AIDS victim ordered to pay two million to son's fiancee CHICAGO (AFP) Mar 04, 2004 In what may be a first-of-a-kind verdict, a US jury has awarded two million dollars to a woman who sued her fiance's parents for allegedly covering up the fact that he was dying of AIDS. |
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UN AIDS chief calls for mobilisation to provide treatment LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) Mar 04, 2004 UN AIDS chief Peter Piot called Thursday for political mobilisation to extend treatment for AIDS sufferers as UN agency heads met with southern African ministers to discuss solutions to the pandemic. Momentum in AIDS fight, but world still falling behind: conference LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) Mar 04, 2004 A new momentum has appeared to provide funding for the fight against AIDS and cheap treatment for its victims around the world, but "we are falling behind," heads of UN agencies said Thursday. UN agencies start AIDS meeting in Africa with call to step up fight LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) Mar 04, 2004 Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday called for the fight against AIDS to be stepped up as he opened a meeting between southern African ministers and UN agencies involved in battling the pandemic. SARS vaccine lies several years away PARIS (AFP) Mar 04, 2004 A year after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) became the latest ailment to spark a global health alert, experts caution it will be a long time before any vaccine against this deadly disease becomes available. UNESCO boss sounds alarm on AIDS in south Asia LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura sounded an alarm Wednesday on the increase of AIDS in South Asia, saying it was rising "very rapidly" there. Senlis Council slams 2003 UN drug report as 'irresponsible' VIENNA (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 An international thinktank on Wednesday accused the UN agency on drugs of denying the worth of programmes that work with heroin addicts to prevent the spread of HIV and slammed it as "irresponsible." |
One year on, Hong Kong still lives in shadow of SARS HONG KONG (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome lurks in the background of Hong Kong's economic, political and social landscape, one year after the world's first death from the disease was recorded in the city. Five AIDS patients sent to prison in case highlighting ignorance in China BEIJING (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 Five HIV/AIDS patients have been sentenced to prison terms of up three-and-a-half years for stealing in a case that underscores the problems China is facing in its struggle against the disease. SARS fears remain imprinted on Hong Kong's memory HONG KONG (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 The much-feared resurgence of SARS has failed to materialise but the disease remains deeply ingrained in Hong Kong's psyche one year on from the health crisis that brought the city to its knees. Officials say most China provinces could have AIDS from blood selling BEIJING (AFP) Mar 03, 2004 Most provinces in China could be affected by HIV/AIDS outbreaks from unsanitary blood sales, officials say, highlighting that Beijing does not know the extent of the epidemic it is grappling with. India should be included in Bush's AIDS plan: US think tank NEW DELHI (AFP) Mar 02, 2004 With 4.58 million people living with HIV/AIDS, second only to South Africa with five million, India is a fit case for US President George W. Bush's "emergency plan" for AIDS relief, a Washington-based private think tank said Tuesday. Only 10 percent of China's HIV/AIDS cases know they have disease: officials BEIJING (AFP) Mar 02, 2004 Just 10 percent of China's HIV-AIDS cases know they have the disease, the US Center for Disease Control and Preventionsaid Tuesday as it launched a 15-million-dollar campaign to help fight the crisis. |
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