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BREAKING NEWS Reject violence against women to help protect them from AIDS, UN urges men GENEVA (AFP) Mar 08, 2004 The United Nations called Monday on men to reject violence against women in order to protect their daughters from the AIDS pandemic. South African AIDS group threatens government with further court action CAPE TOWN (AFP) Mar 08, 2004 South Africa's leading AIDS lobby group promised Monday to launch court action against the government within two weeks if a programme aimed at treating five million who are infected with the virus was not speeded up. |
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UN warns HIV infections soaring among Asian women BANGKOK (AFP) Mar 08, 2004 HIV infection rates among Asian women are soaring and being married is one of the biggest risk factors as many women are contracting the disease from their husbands, the United Nations said Monday. UN warns HIV infections soaring among Asian women BANGKOK (AFP) Mar 08, 2004 HIV infection rates among Asian women are soaring and being married is one of the biggest factors as many women contract the disease from their husbands, the United Nations said Monday. Six-month-old WTO accord on AIDS drugs still having little pratical impact PARIS (AFP) Mar 07, 2004 A deal struck six months ago to change WTO rules on intellectual property rights to enable poor countries to import generic prescription drugs they cannot manufacture has yet to make any real impact in Africa, home to most of the world's AIDS sufferers. Poor countries fail to take advantage of WTO accord on AIDS drugs PARIS (AFP) Mar 07, 2004 Poor countries that fought to be able to import generic prescription drugs have failed to use changes to the WTO rules on intellectual property rights, reviving a row over who is to blame for the lack of treatment for millions of AIDS sufferers. 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. |
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." |
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