KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Government hospitals in the Sudanese capital have stopped performing major surgeries because the central laboratory can t afford chemicals needed to test blood for hepatitis and HIV, a newspaper reported Sunday. The central laboratory, known as Stack Laboratory, has been unable to carry out thes
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An HIV-positive Army sergeant has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of forcing sex on another male sergeant at Fort Jackson. Sgt. Cornelius Abner of Panama City, Fla., was convicted Thursday of forcible sodomy, breaking and entering, disobeying a lawful order and derelict
A newly approved medicine has enabled doctors to develop AIDS drug cocktails that are easier to take, cause fewer side effects and appear to work more effectively in children, researchers suggested today. Over the past few years, drug combinations containing a breakthrough class of medicines called
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A Cambodian man accused of killing people and drinking their blood in the belief it would cure him of AIDS has been apprehended by police, a newspaper reported today. Described as a vampire by local villagers, Pheach Phen, 20, was arrested Dec. 7 in the eastern province of Kompong Cham after all
MAPUTO, Mozambique -- In a country where the victims of a raging AIDS epidemic are shunned, the death notice was groundbreaking. The family announcement in the newspaper Noticias said Boaventura Machel, brother of Mozambique s independence hero and the nation s first president, was a victim of AIDS. In Mozambique
WASHINGTON -- In one school out of three, American teen-agers are not just encouraged to abstain from sex, they are taught that abstinence is the only appropriate option, according to two surveys released today. These abstinence-only policies teach students that they should wait until marriage, or at least until they a
LOS ANGELES -- At a time when new drugs can delay the onset of AIDS, one-third of American HIV patients go without treatment because of a lack of time or money, researchers reported Monday. Poor people, drug users and minorities were most likely to scrimp on care due to the need to work or spend money on basic necessit
BERLIN -- After a century of advancements that have improved children s lives worldwide, growing conflicts and the threat of AIDS threaten to reverse gains for the poorest children, according to a new UNICEF report released today. In the last 100 years, small pox has been eradicated. Widespread iodine supplements have
WASHINGTON -- Having the AIDS virus or two other life-threatening blood-borne viral diseases is no reason for an athlete to be forced out of play, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises. Just the same, the physicians group advises players and sports officials to be extra careful about the possibility of a transmitt
ATLANTA (AP) - The government issued new guidelines Thursday instructing states to collect data on HIV cases with patient names or identifying codes attached - a measure that has alarmed some AIDS activists. The guidelines are the latest step in an effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track where
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations launched an initiative to lower HIV infections among young people in Africa, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan calling Monday for a response to the epidemic that makes humanity live up to its name. The United Nations kicked off a two-day meeting, attended by officials from Africa an
BEIJING -- China has pulled its first nationally televised advertisement promoting condoms to prevent AIDS because the announcement violated a ban on advertising sex products, state media reported Thursday. The advertisement aired on Sunday and Monday on China Central Television s Channel 1, the premier broadcast stati
The Associated Press - Wednesday, December 1, 1999
WASHINGTON -- An Internet company has been charged with misrepresenting the accuracy of its HIV tests, making it the second HIV test marketer targeted by federal regulators this year. In a complaint unsealed Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission charged that David M. Rothbart, who does business as Medimax Inc., made fa
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations marked World AIDS Day today with a sobering new set of statistics of the toll the virus has taken on children, 11 million of whom have been orphaned by the pandemic. In a report, UNICEF and UNAIDS say the number of AIDS orphans is expected to rise to more than 13 million by the
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - While AIDS activists handed out condoms in city buses in Bangkok and dropped them from a helicopter in Pretoria, much of the attention of World AIDS Day on Wednesday focused on the children - 11 million of whom have lost their parents. I have no idea of what my father looked like, what
BEIJING (AP) - China has debuted its first television advertisement ever for condoms in an effort to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the AIDS virus, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. The ad began airing Sunday on China Central Television s Channel 1, which has a nationwide audience
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Regina Mullins pulled her three sons close and smiled. A camera was about to capture her new life. Mullins had lost custody of the boys - now age 14, 15 and 20 - to her mother while she worked as a prostitute, spending nearly everything she made on crack cocaine. Now she and her sons are reunited as
ABERDEEN, Wash. -- Jack, a 67-year-old former paratrooper, had never smoked pot when voters in Washington approved a new medical marijuana law a year ago this month. Since then, he s been diagnosed with a tumor in his lower back that has left him in agony, barely able to move. Now, as doctors and law enforcement grappl
MOSCOW -- Registered HIV cases in Russia have doubled to more than 23,000 in less than a year, with intravenous drug users accounting for the vast majority of the increase, a U.N. official said Wednesday. For years, AIDS and HIV cases in Russia were only a tiny fraction of those in Western countries, due in part to the
LONDON (AP) - Despite powerful new drugs and massive information programs, the AIDS virus is spreading at a growing rate, according to a report released today. The U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization said it expected the number of infections worldwide to continue to grow, fueled by an increase in
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 17 years in prison for injecting his blood into a woman s neck during a mugging. Jose Blazquez also had hepatitis C, which he passed on to the victim. Doctors say the woman has not been contaminated with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Hepatisis C can lead t
The Associated Press - Tuesday November 16 2:06 PM ET
GENEVA (AP) - Alfred Haessig, a Red Cross doctor who was convicted of supervising the distribution of HIV-infected blood products to hemophiliacs, has died at age 78. Nicolas Jeandin, Haessig s lawyer, said Tuesday that the doctor died Sunday after a long illness. A Geneva court in December 1998 held that Haessig, a fo
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Citing concerns about the cost, side effects and effectiveness of drugs such as AZT , South Africa s health minister on Tuesday defended the government s refusal to provide the anti-AIDS drug through the public health system. Giving perhaps the most detailed explanation yet of
DURBAN, South Africa -- Commonwealth leaders celebrated Nigeria s return to the fold and scolded Pakistan for its military coup during a four-day summit that ended Monday, but they sidestepped a proposal to tighten scrutiny of democratic governments. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other leaders suggested the
The Associated Press - Thursday November 11 5:07 PM ET
Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A short time after it invades the body, the virus that causes AIDS creates a reservoir of silent infection that cannot be stamped out by current anti-viral drugs and may resist vaccines, a study shows. The study, to be published Friday in the journal Science, sheds new light on how quickly HIV, the vi
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A doctor has challenged the government s refusal to provide anti-AIDS drugs to pregnant HIV-positive women, saying the policy violates their babies constitutional rights to life and proper medical care. Dr. Costa Gazi said in an interview with The Associated Press that he has filed a compl
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki s claim that a widely used AIDS drug is dangerous has set off an uproar, producing bafflement and shock among physicians and advocates who say AZT is safe. The drug is the mainstay of efforts around the world to prevent HIV-infected mothers from passing th
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki s claim that a widely used AIDS drug is dangerous has set off an uproar, producing bafflement and shock among physicians and advocates who say AZT is safe. The drug is the mainstay of efforts around the world to prevent HIV-infected mothers from passing th
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The AIDS epidemic in Asia could erase the region s economic gains over the last two decades unless governments maintain funding for social programs, a World Bank expert warned Monday. In Indonesia , Thailand , Cambodia ,
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- AIDS experts called Sunday for Asia to act urgently to control the epidemic s rapid spread on the continent, saying it threatens millions of lives and a reversal of the region s economic growth. We are still at the very beginning of the AIDS/HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific, Peter Piot, execu
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia s prime minister launched Asia s largest AIDS conference Saturday with a call for a top-level summit and a demand that pharmaceutical companies lower the cost of AIDS drugs for poorer countries. AIDS has never posed a bigger threat to development than it does now, Prime Minister Maha
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)--With economic woes mounting, Zimbabwe s finance minister Thursday called for dramatic reforms to halt the nation s worsening poverty but proposed a budget that failed to reign in military spending. Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa called for a 3% AIDS levy on all company and income taxes to help
Estimated number of people newly infected with HIV in 1998, by region: Sub-Saharan Africa - 4 million. South and Southeast Asia - 1.2 million. East Asia and the Pacific - 200,000. Latin America - 160,000. Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 80,000. Caribbean - 45,000. North America - 44,000. Western Europe - 30,000.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP)--As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright looked on, scores of young Kenyans received a lesson today in the ABC s of AIDS avoidance - Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condom Use. The outdoor class took place to the sound of beating drums on a hot morning in a low-income Nairobi neighborhood. It featured
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A New York City policy that required people with AIDS to go through special anti-fraud checks to obtain welfare benefits has been struck down by the state s highest court. In a 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that using eligibility verification review (EVR) procedures for the ill New Yo
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In the 1950s, some inmates in American prisons were intentionally infected with live cancer cells, herpes, ringworm, hepatitis and syphilis - all in the name of medical research. When those and other experiments were publicized in the 1970s, they stopped. Research was banned in some state prisons an
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A man infected with AIDS was sentenced to 17 years Friday for exposing three unsuspecting women to the deadly virus. Martin Jones, 37, faced up to 60 years after pleading guilty to nine counts of criminal exposure to AIDS and three counts of statutory rape involving one of the women. One of the wome
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - AIDS doctors and other experts who say HIV-infected inmates are being denied the latest treatments are calling for an expansion of research on prisoners. On Thursday, top health, prison and legal experts met here to begin drafting guidelines that would ensure such research is done ethically.
MANILA, Philippines -- About 1 million people in the Western Pacific are now infected with HIV and the rate of infection is rising rapidly in many countries in the region, the World Health Organization said today. Last year, WHO officials estimated there were about 700,000 HIV infections in the region and 40,000 actual
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- AIDS and rape are so common in South Africa that an insurance company is offering a policy to try to protect rape victims from contracting the disease. The policy, to be introduced Tuesday by the CGU Insurance Ltd, provides a one-month course of anti-retroviral drugs to prevent infection,
WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 200 AIDS activists blocked traffic outside the office of Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky on Wednesday to protest against U.S. policies they say defeat developing countries efforts to get AIDS drugs. Fourteen were arrested. Members of the group ACT UP held signs, chanted slogans and tie
ATLANTA -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $32 million to more than 100 organizations Tuesday in an effort to expand HIV prevention efforts in minority communities. The announcement came a day after the CDC awarded $7 million to seven states to reduce the rate of HIV in prisons. Researchers say o
WASHINGTON -- A Virginia boy with AIDS who wanted to take hard-style karate lessons with his friends lost a Supreme Court appeal today. The justices, without comment, left intact rulings that said Michael Montalvo s participation in a rough-and-tumble karate school would pose too much of a threat to the health and safe
ATLANTA (AP) - Seven states will receive a total of $7 million in grants to help develop HIV prevention programs in prisons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday. Each state will receive between $900,000 and $1.1 million. A study released by the CDC in August found that there are 8,900 inmate
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Thousands of blood donations contaminated by the AIDS virus and hepatitis make their way into hemispheric blood banks each year, infecting thousands of people with the diseases, a leading expert on safe blood told health officials Thursday. Only 16 of the 35 member states of the Pan American He
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- AIDS used to claim two men for every woman in Trinidad and Tobago . Today, seven out of eight young AIDS victims are female - a change that augurs an explosion of the disease in Latin America and the Caribbean
KAMPALA, Uganda -- AIDS has killed some 4,000 Ugandan soldiers who retired three years ago under a World Bank-funded program to reduce the size of the country s military, a former officer said Tuesday. In addition to suffering from AIDS and other diseases, most of the veterans have no skills to earn a living, Samwel Mw
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A medicine that blocks the AIDS virus from getting inside cells has shown promise as a last-ditch treatment for patients who fail to respond to standard AIDS drugs. The medicine, code-named T-20, is still in early-stage testing, but researchers said Monday that it could offer a reprieve for those
CHICAGO -- Highly drug-resistant strains of the AIDS virus are on the rise, showing up in as many as 4.5 percent of newly infected patients in two new studies. Resistance is slowly increasing, said Dr. Roger J. Pomerantz, an expert not involved with either study, If you were looking at this five years ago, you would se
The Associated Press - Saturday, September 18, 1999
Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Benny Mwiinga s body was flown home from a South African hospital the day an African AIDS conference opened in Zambia last week. The powerful Zambian housing minister died after a short illness, the government said. Conference officials and many Zambian leaders speculated that Mwiinga, 49, had di
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- AIDS activists and scientists have demanded a greater commitment from African leaders to fight a deadly epidemic sweeping the continent. But it was unlikely the demand was immediately heard. Of 16 presidents invited to attend a four-day AIDS conference of more than 6,300 officials, activists, tra
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- AIDS, not war, has turned Africa into a killing field and will wipe out enough adults to create 13 million orphans in the next 18 months, the United Nations children s agency said Wednesday. Such cataclysmic statements at the 11th international AIDS in Africa conference were aimed at prodding Afr
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 15, 1999
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Armed conflict killed 200,000 Africans last year, but AIDS killed 2 million Africans in the same period, a U.N. official said today. The statistics came in support of a challenge from the U.N. Children s Fund for African governments, which spend more on defense than on health, to recognize AIDS a
The Associated Press - Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Since the rise of AIDS in Africa 15 years ago, researchers have been baffled by the wide disparity in infection rates from city to city. A study released Tuesday gives the clearest reason yet: cultural practices such as circumcision and early sexual activity. The U.N. research, released at a
The Associated Press - Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Angus Shaw - Associated Press Writer
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- Since the rise of AIDS in Africa 15 years ago, researchers have been baffled by the wide disparity in infection rates from city to city. A study released Tuesday gives the clearest reason yet: cultural practices such as circumcision and early sexual activity. The U.N. research, released at a
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP)--The head of the United Nations health agency has made an appeal to spare health personnel from military action during armed conflicts. Health workers aiding in a crisis situation should not be targets of military action, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the
The Associated Press - Saturday, September 11, 1999
John Leicester - Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) -- One of the last sounds Song Pengfei heard after doctors accidentally severed his artery was his blood cascading onto the operating room floor. One doctor, afraid the teen-age patient was dying, fled in panic. The accident was another business opportunity for Li Changsheng, who made a living selling othe
The Associated Press - Saturday, September 11, 1999
MOSCOW (AP) -- The number of HIV-positive cases registered in Russia jumped by 70 percent in the first eight months of 1999 as the disease spread rapidly among drug addicts, a news report said Saturday. Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko said the majority of new HIV cases were registered among Moscow drug users, according
LONDON (AP) - A British judge ruled Friday that the 4-month-old daughter of a woman who is HIV-positive should be tested for the AIDS virus against her parents wishes. Judge Sir Nicholas Wilson called the case for testing overwhelming. This baby has rights of her own, said Wilson, sitting in the family division of the
SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Gray Davis will likely sign a bill permitting needle exchange programs throughout California -- but only with local permission and under strict emergency orders. Davis offered a last-minute compromise Wednesday on a bill to formally legalize needle swaps, designed to halt the spread of HIV and h
The Associated Press - Thursday, September 2, 1999
Russ Bynum - Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- Despite the good news about wonder drugs that have blunted the deadly effects of AIDS, much about the disease hasn t changed -- namely that 40,000 Americans are infected each year, many in their teens and early 20s. As 2,000 researchers, physicians and activists concluded the four-day National HIV Preve
The Associated Press - Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Russ Bynum - Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) -- The drug cocktails that have allowed AIDS sufferers to live longer lives may be encouraging people vulnerable to HIV infection to let down their guards, researchers say. The more confidence gay men have that the drugs can prolong the lives of AIDS patients and prevent transmission of the disease, the le
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Faced with soaring numbers of people infected with HIV, Cambodian health officials announced plans Monday to enforce condom use in the nation s commercial sex outlets. An estimated 100 Cambodians catch the deadly virus each day - the highest infection rate in Asia, according to the Health Mi
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials have a new tool to track the spread of AIDS: A blood test that can tell when infections are less than six months old. Research presented Monday at the first national conference on AIDS prevention used the blood tests to show that new infections are continuing at a steady rate, as resear
ATLANTA (AP) - The sharp decline in AIDS deaths that began two years ago with the development of powerful new drugs has suddenly been cut in half, raising questions about whether the medications are already losing their punch, health officials said today. AIDS killed 17,047 people in the United States last year -
CHICAGO (AP) - Babies of HIV-infected women have a 10 percent chance of getting the virus from their mothers if they breast-feed for two years, a study conducted in the African nation of Malawi found. The study is the first to show that mothers with the AIDS virus pass it along through their milk for as long as they br
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation s capital plans to develop an identifcation system for tracking the spread of the AIDS virus without compromising patient confidentiality. It s clear to me that we have an epidemic, Mayor Anthony A. Williams, said at a news conference. AIDS is the leading cause of death among district resi
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Police have dropped charges against four men suspected of killing an AIDS activist after she revealed she was HIV-positive, in a move that prompted an outcry from her fellow activists. Gugu Dlamini, a 36-year-old volunteer field worker for the National Association of People Living Wit
NEW YORK (AP) -- A convicted murderer who heads a Nevada company has been arrested on securities fraud charges after his company made several recent announcements claiming to have developed a cure for AIDS, prosecutors said Friday. Alfred Flores, 49, president of New Technologies & Concepts Inc. in Las Vegas, was a
LONDON (AP) - All pregnant women in Britain will be offered HIV tests in an attempt to reduce the number of babies infected with the AIDS virus, the government announced Friday. The test will be recommended to expectant mothers as part of their routine prenatal screening, Health Minister Tessa Jowell said. At least hal
CHICAGO -- The number of babies who got AIDS from their mothers dropped by two-thirds between 1992 and 1997, largely because of prenatal treatment with the drug AZT , a new study found. An expert not involved in the study said it suggests the possibility of virtually eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in the
CAMBODIA: With the highest HIV infection rate in Asia and an estimated 100 Cambodians a day contracting the virus, more and more HIV-positive babies are being abandoned at orphanages and hospitals in Phnom Penh. Over the next year as many as 1,700 Cambodian children will die from the virus, says Dr Tia Phalla, the Mini
CHICAGO (AP) -- Drug treatment of HIV-infected pregnant women has been so successful in keeping newborns from catching the virus that experts believe mother-to-child AIDS transmission could be virtually wiped out in the United States . The number of babies who got AIDS from their mothers dropped by two-thirds between 1
BOSTON (AP) A 13-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital and given an anti-AIDS cocktail after he was pricked by a discarded hypodermic needle on a jetliner. A woman later claimed the needle was hers for treatment of her diabetes, and was clean. The incident happened at about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, prior to the takeoff of A
LACONIA , N.H. (AP) -- In a staged protest, nine AIDS activists took turns interrupting Vice President Al Gore s speech to Democratic voters before they were escorted from the room. The activists from ACT-UP have been protesting U.S. trade policies toward South Africa at Gore events for months. They say administration
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Saroeun Thuong s eyes search the faces of strangers for any sign of compassion, trying to make her pleas for help heard over the traffic on dusty Monivong Boulevard. Squatting in the only patch of shade outside an orphanage in Cambodia s capital, she cradles her daughter, a sickly 7-month-o
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you recently bought an at-home AIDS test called EZ Med over the Internet, expect a letter from the government urging you not to use it. That AIDS test is illegal and, worse, studies show it can t detect the deadly virus as it claims. Another cautionary tale: the 53-year-old Chicago man who died af
The higher the level of HIV in a pregnant woman s blood, the more likely she was to transmit the virus to her baby, two new studies found. The researchers also found that pregnant women with the highest levels of HIV were one-third less likely to transmit the virus if they were treated with the anti-retroviral drug
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Faced with the highest HIV-infection rate in Asia and a capital city choked with brothels, Cambodians are debating whether the government should legalize the sex industry and clean it up. More than half of the 87 participants at a public forum last week debating the sex trade said they suppo
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) The number of new cases of AIDS diagnosed in Maine could be dropping for the fourth time in four years, according to a report from the state Bureau of Public Health. The agency s quarterly update said 14 people were diagnosed with AIDS in the first half of 1999, compared with 33 who were diagnosed
SALEM, Ore.--The first time Harvey Caron went to prison--seven years in a federal pen for flying marijuana out of Mexico--he spent all his spare time in the weight room. When he had done his time, he walked out bigger and badder, with a serious attitude. When a cocaine deal in Roseburg went bad and he killed a man, Car
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A federal appeals court has overturned a jury s award of $382,000 to a man who sued his employers on the grounds that he was discriminated against because he is HIV-positive. Roger P. Kwiatek Jr., who worked in the support services office at the West Palm Beach branch of AT&T Wireless,
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Doctors say a new state requirement effective Sunday could frighten many parents unnecessarily during childbirth, an already stressful time that should be marked with joy. That s because the expectant mother would be urged to take a quick type of HIV test with a relatively high rate of erroneous
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa s health minister will lead a delegation to Uganda next month to study the country s strategy for fighting AIDS, a spokesman said Saturday. The minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and a large delegation will depart on Aug. 1, said Harm Pretorius, spokesman for the ministr
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - AIDS killed 1.4 million people in eastern and southern Africa last year, overtaking armed conflicts as the No. 1 killer in the region, the U.N. Children s Fund said today. The epidemic, which has hit this portion of the African continent harder than anywhere else in the world, has left 6 million c
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A combination drug therapy that has been extremely successful in suppressing HIV levels during closely monitored clinical trials does not work nearly as well in real-world practice, according to a study. The study published in this week s Annals of Internal Medicine looked at 273 patients infected w
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Asserting the United States has a moral duty to do more to fight AIDS, Vice President Al Gore announced a new $100 million proposal to help Africa stop the spread of the disease. Gore, whose presidential campaign has been dogged by AIDS activists, also released a new study on the scope and the toll o
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists working in Uganda have discovered a dramatically more effective way to prevent pregnant women from spreading the AIDS virus to their babies: a drug treatment that costs just $4 per mother and could save up to 1,000 newborns a day. The drug
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) -- Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche has reached a deal with Durham, N.C.-based Trimeris Inc. (Nasdaq:TRMS - news) to complete human testing and development of its two experimental anti-HIV drugs. Roche and Trimeris will share equally the development expenses and profits for the fusion inhibitors,
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - The average South African will live only 40 years by 2008 - down from 60 - if the AIDS epidemic continues to rage at its present pace, the Department of Welfare and Population Development said Friday. The drop in life expectancy is in line with many of the countries in southern Africa, whe
BEIJING (AP) -- The number of Chinese infected by the virus that causes AIDS has climbed past 400,000, a state-run newspaper reported, citing Health Ministry sources. About two-thirds of the people infected with HIV are drug addicts living in rural areas, although the number of sexually transmitted cases is increasing,
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- South African protesters took aim Monday at health policies backed by Al Gore, underscoring a trade dispute between the United States and South Africa over the cost of AIDS drugs. About 300 demonstrators marched outside the U.S. Consulate with signs saying Gore Greed Kills and Stop
LONDON (AP) - A British judge ruled today that gay prisoners should be supplied condoms when necessary to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Former prisoner Glen Fielding, jailed for eight years for offenses ranging from robbery to drunken driving, had waged a long campaign for access to condoms. Technic
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) -- The younger ones sit cross-legged, quietly waiting, like schoolchildren expecting the story hour. The teen-agers, two feet away, are stone drunk from guzzling buckets of 100-proof, homemade beer called kachasu, and sniffing jekem -- fermented human feces scraped from sewer pipes. They stab at eac
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Before AIDS ravaged America s gay capitol, John Maybauer used to cruise the bathhouses, where men wearing nothing but towels made friends and paired off behind locked doors for sex. I used to go all the time, said Maybauer, who wants the bathhouses back. It was very much like a salon. It s a very c
MOSCOW (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is spreading rapidly in Moscow due to increased drug use, prostitution and a lack of public awareness and prevention programs, medical officials warned Thursday. There were 4,085 HIV cases registered in the Moscow region as of Wednesday, the highest number for any Russian region
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore is caught in a clash between AIDS activists seeking cheap generic drugs for South African victims of the disease and U.S. laws intended to protect drug companies from having their patents violated abroad. Gore, wary of appearing to be siding with the drug industry in an emotion-
NEW YORK (AP) - More than a third of homosexual men in New York City don t use condoms when they have sex, but most of those who have unprotected sex are trying to reduce the risks of HIV infection in other ways, according to a new study. The survey of more than 7,000 homosexuals, conducted last year by the Gay Men s H
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A man accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl and giving her the virus that causes AIDS was convicted of felonious assault. The girl, now 14, said that Henry Couturier, 47, did not tell her he had the virus when they had sex in May 1998. She tested positive for HIV about three months later.
ATLANTA (AP) - Fewer Americans are choosing to remain anonymous when tested for HIV at federally funded clinics, hospitals and prisons - a sign that the stigma attached to AIDS may be waning, the government reported Thursday. In most states, people can get tested for the AIDS virus without giving their names. But the n
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans who have tested themselves at home for the AIDS virus may want to get an official test, the government warned Friday after buying some HIV kits sold on the Internet - and discovering they gave false results. Using one of these kits could give a person who might be infected with HIV the false
WASHINGTON (AP) - Minorities, the poor and people who contracted AIDS through drug use are less likely to get needed care, including revolutionary new drugs that have prolonged life for thousands of people, according to the first national study of AIDS treatment. The disparities were particularly acute in 1996, when th
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 1,500 people, mostly children and working-age adults, will die in the next hour from infectious diseases, many that could be prevented for less than the cost of a few bottles of aspirin, the World Health Organization said Thursday. In a new assessment of infections global toll, the WHO found jus
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Sex education for preschoolers is an important step in stopping the spread of AIDS, Brazil s top AIDS prevention official said. Classes about sex for children as young as 4 would reduce AIDS among teen-agers and help avoid unwanted pregnancies, said Pedro Chequer, coordinator of the Health Min
MIAMI (AP) -- Federal health experts are being sent to major U.S. cities beginning this month to examine the disproportionate spread of AIDS and HIV in people of color, especially among blacks, The Miami Herald reported today. The team will look at factors that have played a role in the disease s spread in certain citi
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A federal jury convicted three people of stealing $2.2 million of federal funds meant for AIDS patients Monday, capping the latest in a series of sensational trials that have embarrassed Puerto Rican politicians. Yamil Kouri, 63, Jeannette Sotomayor, 58, and Armando Borel, 53, all former ad
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Dawn Averitt is packing some of the usual items as she starts hiking the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail: sleeping bag, plenty of dried noodles and macaroni, fresh socks, bug repellent. But she s also toting a lot of medicine on her back. Averitt, 30, of Raleigh, N.C., takes 28 pills and liquid medica
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Predictability can offer a certain comfort, even if this is what you know: You will die young, of AIDS. Chip Supanich knows. When he learned he was HIV-positive in 1985, the San Franciscan took the diagnosis and his doctor s prognosis to heart. He started to party, party, party. And he developed a
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Two bills that would require testing for the AIDS virus in circumstances involving a crime or accident were easily approved by the Oregon House Thursday. One measure would allow a judge to order a person accused of a crime to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The person also would be te
CHICAGO (AP) - An insurance company can set lower coverage levels for HIV-related illnesses despite a federal law that bans discrimination against the disabled, an appeals panel has ruled. Deciding a suit brought by two HIV-positive Chicago-area men, a panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the mens
Several people in Australia who caught a weakened form of HIV in the early 1980s are beginning to show AIDS-like damage to their immune systems, a development that has disappointing implications for the development of a vaccine. Between 1980 and 1984, 13 people in Australia received blood donated by an HIV-infected man
NEW YORK (AP) - A special therapy might be able to flush the AIDS virus out of blood cells where it hides in the body, according to scientists who stress that much more work is needed. The work - presented in the June issue of the journal Nature Medicine - was reported by The Associated Press in November, when it was p
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An immune system gland once thought to be inactive in adults actually continues to function late in life, according to research that could lead to new ways of reactivating the natural defenses of AIDS and cancer patients. The thymus, a pinkish-gray organ near the heart, is the primary source of germ-
Two new studies found that years after powerful drugs have virtually eliminated the AIDS virus from the bloodstream and forced it into hiding in the body, it can continue to infect new cells. The finding underscores just how difficult it may be to cure AIDS. Previous studies have shown that the AIDS virus hides in cert
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- After a long battle with the state, a former drug addict who infected his wife with HIV has won custody of their son, who also contracted the virus. The toddler, who turns 2 in July, will be moved out of foster care and placed in his father s home within three to five months, according to the state
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court today rejected the appeal of a Maine dentist successfully sued after he refused to treat in his office a woman infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The justices, without comment, turned away Randon Bragdon s contention that filling a cavity in Sidney Abbott s tooth at his office
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Seven more health centers have reported problems with dialysis machines since the government issued an alert about malfunctioning tubing that could expose patients to each other s blood. The Food and Drug Administration issued a nationwide safety alert last week to all dialysis centers because of t
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration today released new guidelines to ease the availability of marijuana for medical research, in a move that officials believe will quicken the pace of studies into the drug s possible beneficial uses. The new guidelines, an extension of an existing process, will make it easier
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, ruling in the case of an HIV-positive Air Force major imprisoned for having unprotected sex, today bolstered the president s power as the nation s military commander in chief. The court unanimously overturned an order by the military s highest court that had barred the president fro
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of patients are being recruited by their personal physicians into a booming venture for doctors -- the business of testing experimental drugs on people, The New York Times reports in its Sunday editions. The newspaper said a 10-month investigation revealed a system that is fraught
YORK, S.C. (AP) - A judge has ordered a man to pay his former girlfriend $5 million for infecting her with the AIDS virus - part of what her attorney described as a grudge against women. Judge Buford Greer awarded $1 million in actual damages and $4 million in punitive damages to the woman Wednesday. The woman, identif
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued a safety alert over dialysis equipment that may have exposed patients to each others blood and their blood-borne diseases. Small amounts of blood that leaked inside dialysis machines have been found at treatment centers in Arizona, Florida, New Jersey an
GENEVA (AP) -- AIDS has become the world s most deadly infectious disease in the last year, overtaking tuberculosis and moving up to fourth place among all causes of death worldwide, the World Health Organization said today. A decline in deaths attributed to TB accounted for AIDS moving up from last year s seventh-plac
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A reporter at a rural Kentucky newspaper who wrote moving stories about her battle with cancer was fired Monday after admitting she didn t have the disease at all, but AIDS. Kim Stacy, 33, said she lied because of the stigma attached to AIDS. I grew up in a small-town atmosphere where you are cr
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- In the largest single corporate commitment to fight AIDS, Bristol-Myers Squibb is donating $100 million over five years to speed research and train doctors to fight the disease in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the epidemic. The move Thursday by the world s fifth-largest dru
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - We die. They take names. That s the chilling message of AIDS activists who took over the office of a top state health official Wednesday afternoon in peaceful protest. The demonstration sought to draw attention to what activists see as the inhumanity of the state s new HIV reporting and partner noti
BOSTON (AP) -- Patients with HIV whose immune systems respond well to combination treatments can stop taking pills to ward off a form of pneumonia that was once a major killer of people with AIDS, researchers reported today. The antibiotic protects against Pneumocystis carinii and some other infections that are especia
NEW YORK (AP) -- The AIDS virus might be able to hide undetected for 60 years in people taking powerful anti-viral drugs, says a study that underlines a major obstacle to the bold notion of curing AIDS. We aren t going to be able to simply wait it out, said Dr. Robert Siliciano, senior author of the study. While the dr
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- In a move that has outraged AIDS activists, government officials said Monday they would press ahead with plans to require people with the deadly disease to have their condition disclosed. Amendments to existing health regulations have been drawn up to compel doctors of patients discovere
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Women s groups criticized the South African government Thursday for failing to provide medical treatment they say could help prevent victims of rape from contracting the AIDS virus from their attackers. The activists are demanding the government provide rape victims with a three-drug cockt
GENEVA (AP) -- Spending by donor countries to combat AIDS in developing countries is failing to keep pace with the spread of the disease, now infecting nearly 6 million people worldwide each year, the United Nations said Thursday. It is alarming that AIDS is expanding three times faster than the funding to control it,
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A technician who drew blood with used needles she had washed in a sink is named in a class-action lawsuit, along with the clinic where she used to work. The blood scare also attracted the attention of Assemblywoman Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, who promised legislation to require more extensive
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A judge refused today to return a baby to an HIV-infected mother who wants to breast feed, saying the risk of spreading the deadly virus left the state no choice but to step in. The parents may choose to run that risk with the child, but the court may second-guess that decision, Juvenile Court Judge
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- More than 1,200 Zimbabweans are dying each week from AIDS, President Robert Mugabe said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time the enormity of an epidemic whose existence the government had previously underplayed. In a speech marking the 19th anniversary of Zimbabwe s independence, Mugabe sai
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government approved another treatment choice for patients with the AIDS virus Friday, a protease inhibitor called amprenavir. Amprenavir , sold under the brand name Agenerase , is taken in combination with other AIDS medications.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- At least 3,600 people who had blood work performed at a lab are being warned to get tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C after a technician admitted reusing needles since June 1997. Any patients sent to the SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratory since the technician began working there could b
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - An HIV-infected mother who wants to breast-feed her son went to court Friday with the unorthodox argument that her milk can t spread the deadly virus. Kathleen Tyson and her husband, David, are part of a national movement that rejects the prevailing science on AIDS. They don t believe HIV causes AID
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A Thai Buddhist monk who is a prominent social critic has come under criticism by AIDS activists who say he is spreading misinformation about the disease, local newspapers reported today. Several non-governmental organizations and support groups for people infected with the virus which causes
NEW YORK -- A new chapter of the subway s favorite cartoon soap opera has debuted, and unsurprisingly, it ends in a cliffhanger. Can Julio refrain from unsafe sex? Will Julio and Marisol get back together? And Marisol s sister, can she finally kick that nasty drug habit? These are the questions left unanswered for anxi
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- An HIV-positive mother who lost custody of her infant son after telling doctors she wanted to breast-feed him will get her day in court. Kathleen Tyson and her husband David retained physical custody of their son, Felix, after they said they would also discontinue treatment of the anti-AIDS drug
KANYUTO, Kenya -- From wife inheritance to expensive funeral rites, traditions that have bound a west Kenyan culture for generations are under attack. But many members of the Luo, the third-largest ethnic group in Kenya, refuse to turn away from their history. According to how we see it, we cannot erode our culture, s
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP)--The AIDS epidemic will cost Trinidad and Tobago more than 4% of its gross national product next year and is just as costly in Jamaica , according to a private study.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The names of all Oregonians infected with the virus that causes AIDS could soon be on file in state records. After more than a year of preparation, the Oregon Health Division will get the public s opinion on a plan to expand the current AIDS database to include names of people infected with HIV.
CAIRO, Egypt , Apr 02 (AP) — Several Libyan children infected with the virus that causes AIDS have been flown to hospitals in Austria and Switzerland for treatment, Libyan Health minister Hitwiesh Faraj said in comments published Thursday. Two airplanes flew the children from Benghazi in eastern Li
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Struggling with the highest rate of HIV infection in Asia, Cambodia held its first national conference Tuesday to increase awareness of the AIDS epidemic. With a tearful plea, AIDS victim Sam Theara urged younger generations of Cambodians to protect themselves from HIV and help in the fight
MEHLVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- Twenty sixth-graders who shared sewing needles to draw blood for a classroom science experiment are being urged to be tested for HIV and hepatitis. The teacher in charge of the experiment, conducted Wednesday at Bierbaum School, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, sa
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Fifteen years after San Francisco cracked down on bathhouses in order to block the spread of AIDS, some gay men say its time for the city to reverse its policies. At this stage in the epidemic people know how to protect themselves, said Act-Up spokesman Michael Bellefountaine, who met with health o
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The first large-scale trial of an AIDS vaccine in a developing country began Wednesday with six former drug addicts showing up for the shots at a Thai medical center. The AIDSVAX vaccine being tested is produced by VaxGen Inc., a California-based company. Last June, the company started the
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Researcher Peter Duesberg is a scientific outcast because of his AIDS theories, but he s still in business thanks to a fund-raising approach as unconventional as his beliefs. Duesberg, who maintains that AIDS is not caused by the human immunodeficiency virus but by illegal drugs and the AIDS me
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- With nearly half of its 980 million people infected with tuberculosis, India has obtained a $144 million loan from the World Bank to fight the disease. Using the loan, the government hopes to reach 271 million people using the directly observed treatment strategy, G.R. Khatri, a deputy director
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A judge has thrown out a jury verdict awarding $35.3 million to a couple who blamed the AIDS death of their hemophiliac son on tainted blood-clotting medicine. Relatives of other hemophiliacs who died after receiving allegedly tainted medicine embraced and wept as the jury s verdict was read Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tears, saliva and the urine of pregnant women all contain proteins that are potent killers of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, researchers say. The scientists isolated a protein, called lysozyme, and found that it was able to kill the AIDS virus quickly in test-tube experiments. A report on the study
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inherited genes may explain why some people infected with HIV quickly develop AIDS while others with the virus live for years in relatively good health, scientists report. In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers at the National Cancer Institute say differences in the inherited p
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) - A human-rights complaint has been lodged against the Girl Scouts for initially denying membership to an HIV-positive 8-year-old. The Legal Action Center of New York City filed it Wednesday on behalf of Quashawn Donovan with the state Division of Human Rights. Quashawn was rejected from seven tro
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- President Nelson Mandela urged South Africans on Monday to break the silence on AIDS, which he said is jeopardizing the country s reconstruction and development. We cannot afford to be complacent. At present, 1,500 new infections occur every day in South Africa, Mandela said. This must
PARIS (AP) - Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and another minister were acquitted today in France s tainted blood scandal, but a third official was convicted for his role in two HIV contaminations. In what was clearly a compromise verdict, former Health Minister Edmond Herve was given no penalty despite his convict
CHICAGO (AP) -- One of the country s last hospices set up to care exclusively for dying AIDS patients has a problem -- albeit a good one. It s going out of business. Experts in the field say the closing of the Chicago House hospice -- and the shifting focus of AIDS facilities throughout the country -- is further eviden
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation s blood supply is about to become safer: Blood banks will begin next week phasing in sophisticated new genetic tests designed to wipe out viral infections that occasionally slip into transfusions. This is the biggest thing that s happened in blood banking since the HIV test, said James Mac
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- A Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop has condemned anti-AIDS campaigns promoting condom use as contributing to the spiritual and moral ruin of the young. The archbishop of Barcelona, Cardinal Ricard Maria Carles, railed against the government media campaigns in a weekly newsletter article sent t
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation s blood supply is set to undergo a revolution in safety testing: Blood banks next week begin phasing in sophisticated genetic fingerprinting tests in an attempt to wipe out the few dangerous viral infections that occasionally slip into transfusions. This is the biggest thing that s happene
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Violence against women is helping to spread the virus that causes AIDS, U.N. officials said Wednesday in events leading up to next week s commemoration of International Women s Day. Marital abuse, sexual coercion, rape and the trafficking of women and children are forms of violence that lead dire
PARIS (AP) - Defense lawyers presented closing arguments Friday in the trial of three former French Cabinet ministers for their alleged roles on contaminating people with HIV-tainted blood. The president of the Court of Justice of the Republic, who has been critical of media coverage of the trial, asked journalists not
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AIDS. It s the top killer of black Americans in the prime of their lives, those years between 25 and 44. One in 50 black men and one in 160 black women are infected. Blacks are diagnosed later than whites, receive worse care, die faster. They make up 12 percent of the U.S. population but a devastatin
GENEVA (AP) - Six young people are infected with the AIDS virus every minute, the United Nations said Thursday as it launched a new campaign to slow the spread of the epidemic among youth. Nearly 600,000 children under 15 and 2.5 million people aged 15-24 caught the Human Immunodeficiency Virus last year, it said.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Already in court in Canada , hemophiliacs who are victims of AIDS and hepatitis are taking their campaign for compensation to the United States . They say the U.S. government knew about infected blood plasma from state prison inmates yet failed to stop its export. If I had asked questions 15 year
The Associated Press - Thursday, February 25, 1999
PARIS (AP) - A French prosecutor Wednesday called for charges to be dropped against three former ministers accused of manslaughter in the HIV contamination of seven people. The state prosecutor, Jean-Francois Burgelin, said the affair reflected an immense breakdown of French medicine and was not the fault of politician
The Associated Press - Wednesday February 24, 1999
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexican officials have suspended 10 physicians suspected of transplanting HIV-infected kidneys into patients, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The El Norte newspaper earlier had reported two transplants of infected organs in January. The newspaper said a state investigation found that doctors in
PARIS (AP) - France was not slow to test donated blood for the virus that causes AIDS, a former prime minister told a court Tuesday as he defended other top officials on trial for the HIV infection of seven people. Raymond Barre testified at the start of the third and final week of the trial of former Prime Minister La
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - By day and by night, the outreach workers known as The Condom Ladies take to the gritty streets here to spread an AIDS prevention message among those most at risk. They crisscross the city, boldly seeking out prostitutes, needle-using drug addicts, the homeless and corner drug dealers to personally
LEWISBURG, Tenn. (AP) -- An HIV-infected woman who at first said she had one-night stands as revenge for contracting the virus from her boyfriend has been sentenced to 26 1/2 years in prison after changing her story. Pamela Wiser apologized in court Friday to the men she exposed and testified that she just couldn t say
The Associated Press - Thursday, February 18, 1999
Paul Recer, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Baylor College of Medicine scientist says a London newspaper misinterpreted her study about a possible link between an early polio vaccine and cancer, a university spokesman said Thursday. Dr. Janet S. Butel has not proved that a monkey virus that contaminated an early form of polio vaccine is respo
The Associated Press - Wednesday February 17, 1999
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A nurse who claims he was fired because he had AIDS filed a $1.4 million lawsuit Wednesday against his former employer. John Casselberry didn t tell officials at North Broward Rehabilitation and Nursing Center that he had AIDS when he was first hired. By law, he didn t have to disclose it,
The Associated Press - Wednesday February 17, 1999
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A doctor accused of giving his lover the AIDS virus by injecting her with infected blood got the maximum penalty - 50 years of hard labor - on Wednesday for attempted second-degree murder. Certainly the defendant s life is unique among convicted felons. But in the last analysis the punishment must
PARIS (AP) - A woman infected with HIV during a blood transfusion 14 years ago begged three former ministers Tuesday to be truthful about their role in the nation s tainted blood scandal, whatever the cost. In the second week of their trial, former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, former Health Minister Edmond Herve and
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Health authorities in Ukraine may be spreading HIV by using blood transfusions from infected people who were tested on faulty equipment, a former top AIDS official charged. Ukraine s government banned imports of HIV-testing equipment in January 1998 to support domestic industry and cut costs by usi
PARIS (AP) - The officials involved in France s blood scandal acted in good faith and should not be held criminally responsible for any HIV infections that could have been avoided, a key witness said Friday. Former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, former Health Minister Edmond Herve and former Social Affairs Minister Geo
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A karate school owner did not violate the rights of an HIV-infected boy by refusing to admit him to a rough-and-tumble class in which blood is routinely shed, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the U.S.A. Bushido
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have spent years hunting spermicide-type gels to help women block the AIDS virus during sex. Now they re studying whether a common shampoo and toothpaste ingredient might work - and also offer protection against cervical cancer. Sodium dodecyl sulfate is the first topical agent ever shown t
The Associated Press - Wednesday February 10, 1999
Nicolas Marmie, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) - A former French health minister accused of a role in a scandal that left at least seven people dead or dying from HIV-tainted blood told a court Wednesday that financial considerations never impeded decision-making on major issues. Stridently defending his actions as health minister in the mid-1980s, Edmon
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Institutes of Health says the first test of a human AIDS vaccine in Africa has begun in Uganda . Several attempts at AIDS vaccines have been tested in various countries - particularly the United States , where the most advanced study of another possible vaccine candidate is under way.
PARIS (AP) - The debate over who is responsible for the use of HIV-tainted blood in transfusions in France has endured for years and has implicated former high-ranking government officials. On Tuesday, three former government ministers, including a former prime minister, will go on trial for their alleged roles in Fran
CHICAGO (AP) - The tentative results of a small human experiment offer a glimmer of possibility that the body s own defense system can be trained to hold down the AIDS virus. The clearly risky approach attempts to mimic the success of the much-talked-about Berlin patient, a newly infected German man who stopped and sta
CHICAGO (AP) - Deciphering the genetic code of each patient s AIDS virus appears to help doctors tailor treatments to improve the chance of thwarting HIV s dogged ability to develop resistance. One of the elements that makes HIV such a difficult foe is the sloppy way it makes copies of itself. Each new version is sligh
PARIS (AP) - A week before three former ministers go on trial for their roles in an AIDS-tainted blood scandal, the parents of a young woman who died of AIDS have filed a complaint against a fourth former official, judicial sources said Wednesday. The complaint, also brought by an association representing victims of ta
NEW YORK (AP) - Using a weakened AIDS virus as a vaccine might actually cause the disease, a study in monkeys suggests. Some scientists have proposed using weakened HIV as a vaccine, and some animal studies have been encouraging. But in the new work, researchers found AIDS in some macaques that had been inoculated with
CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers reported Tuesday that blacks donating blood for the first time are 25 times more likely than whites to have recently acquired HIV infections. The study is the latest to document the growing racial divide in AIDS, which is evolving from being largely an illness of white homosexuals to one of p
CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers trying to reduce the cost of preventing AIDS among the world s poor have found that giving mothers standard medicines for just a week cuts the risk they will pass on the virus during childbirth by more than one-third. Doctors have known for about five years that the drug
CHICAGO (AP) - Mystery solved: The AIDS virus came from chimps. Experts have wondered about the origin of HIV ever since the epidemic emerged almost two decades ago. The uncertainty launched a variety of conspiracy theories, some suggesting that AIDS was a government plot, created purposely to kill. Now, research prese
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Bobby Kelly died in his father s arms, unable to bounce back again from the AIDS virus he contracted from medication meant to stop internal bleeding caused by his hemophilia. Newly graduated from Seton Hall University, Bobby was just 22 when he succumbed to an AIDS-related infection in October 1992
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - Parents of an infant boy are fighting a court order that they treat him with anti-AIDS drugs because his mother is HIV-positive. The court gave the state custody of eight-week-old Felix Tyson, ordered six weeks of AZT treatments, and barred his mother from breast-feeding him. But the boy s parents,
NEW YORK (AP) - Sexually transmitted diseases are reported up among some groups of gay men. Federal officials are worried about a survey in San Francisco showing dramatic increases in unsafe sex since 1994. And two weeks ago in Greenwich Village, a standing-room-only crowd of 300 people attended a meeting on barebackin
ATLANTA (AP) - Now that the AIDS epidemic appears to be slowing because of medical advances and better drugs, some gay men may be returning to unsafe sexual behavior, the federal government said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the number of gay men in San Francisco who reported having unprote
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Nearly 18 months after an HIV-positive boy was barred from a play area at a Kroger store, he returned to PePe s Playhouse with a smile - and Kroger s permission. I m freezing, Georgio Lee Chacon, 7, said Thursday night as he prepared to enter the store in Columbus. I m freezing. Let s go in.
The Associated Press - Thursday January 28 5:21 PM ET
Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
BOSTON (AP) - The risk an HIV-infected woman will pass the virus to her baby during birth is nearly eliminated if she takes a standard AIDS drug and has a Caesarean delivery. The benefits of the AIDS drug AZT have been known for five years. But the added advantage of a Caesarean was suspected but not proven until a lar
CHICAGO (AP) - An Ohio man is suing his former doctor for allegedly misdiagnosing him with HIV and then prescribing a potent drug that had to be taken each day for more than six years. Mark Savage contends he was never even tested for HIV by Dr. David Blatt and his colleagues at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chica
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Warner-Lambert Co. continued its push into pharmaceuticals with the acquisition of a San Diego-based biotechnology company and its wildly successful AIDS product. A $2.1 billion stock deal announced Tuesday gives Warner-Lambert control of Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc., which debuted its
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- On paper at least, India is ready to cope with the consequences of increasing AIDS cases. It hopes to avoid being overwhelmed by not just the disease, but by fear and ignorance. P.L. Joshi, deputy director of the government s National AIDS Control Organization, confidently fingers a thick, plas
CHICAGO (AP) -- Twenty-four critically ill patients died after being given a blood substitute without their informed consent, according to federal officials. Baxter International Inc. was able to test the substitute known as HemAssist without consent because of a 1996 change in U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulat
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - In a move critics call discriminatory, a local school district has adopted a new policy that could bar students with HIV and AIDS from playing school sports. The Poudre School District now requires a committee of parents, health professionals and school officials to decide whether an infected
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers report some laboratory success of a vaccine that attacks HIV at a vulnerable moment of the deadly virus infection cycle. In studies at the University of Montana, researchers developed antibodies in mice that attacked HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, just as the virus was in the process of
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - A man who injected his son with the AIDS virus to avoid paying child support was sentenced to life in prison Friday by a judge who warned he is going to burn in hell from here to eternity. Brian Stewart, 32, of Columbia, Ill., stared straight ahead as Judge Ellsworth Cundiff handed down the maxi
CHICAGO (AP) - Children and teens who are infected with the AIDS virus should be told, the nation s foremost group of pediatricians says. It s better to approach it in a controlled fashion rather than have a 12-year-old overhear it on the ward - `The child with AIDS in bed No. 3, said Dr. Robert Pantell of the Universi
The Associated Press - Tuesday January 5 5:19 AM ET
Ramola Talwar Badam, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Both husband and wife have the virus that causes AIDS, but only one of them can afford the fistful of daily drugs that is the best treatment for the deadly and incurable disease. The wife, who refused to be named for fear of being ostracized by her neighbors because she carries the HIV, says she ne
For the first time, researchers have suppressed HIV in infected patients by giving them injections of cells made from their own immune systems. Thanks to the latest drugs, many patients show little sign of HIV infection in their blood but carry lingering traces of the AIDS virus in lymph nodes and other hard-to-reach p
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