2001
- Activist Larry Kramer Leaves ICU
- Associated Press - Wednesday December 26, 2001
- PITTSBURGH (AP) - Five days after undergoing a liver transplant, AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer s condition was upgraded to fair on Wednesday and he was moved from intensive care. A spokeswoman at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said Kramer was moved to a private room in the liver transplant inpatien
- Larry Kramer Receives New Liver
- Associated Press - Monday December 24, 2001
- PITTSBURGH (AP) - AIDS activist, author and playwright Larry Kramer underwent liver transplantation surgery and was listed in serious condition Monday. Kramer s doctors said his condition was improving and was about where it should be after the 12-hour surgery Friday. Kramer, 66, spent seven months on the University of
- Libya Court Delays AIDS Trial Verdict
- Associated Press - Saturday December 22, 2001
- TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - A Libyan court postponed its verdict Saturday in the case of six Bulgarians and a Palestinian, all doctors and nurses, accused of injecting 393 children with HIV-contaminated blood. It was the second time in four months the judges had postponed their verdict. They were originally due to hand down
- Nonprofit groups cut ties with AIDS Ride
- Associated Press - December 19, 2001
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The California AIDS Ride, a feel-good event in which 11,000 cyclists have raised $40 million since 1994, is being abandoned by the nonprofit agencies it benefits. They say it is unacceptable they get only 50 cents of every dollar raised. Cyclists from all over the country have joined the annual ride fr
- SAfrica to Appeal AIDS Drug Ruling
- Associated Press - Wednesday December 19, 2001
- Mike Cohen, Associated Press Writer
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - The South African government announced Wednesday that it will challenge a court order to widen access to a key AIDS drug, saying the ruling may infringe on its constitutional right to determine policy. The Pretoria High Court ordered the government Friday to institute a comprehensive prog
- Half of American HIV is Drug-Resistant
- Associated Press - Tuesday December 18, 2001
- Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
- CHICAGO (AP) - A disturbing new study found that at least half of all Americans under care for HIV infection carry viruses that are resistant to some of the standard AIDS drugs. HIV s relentless ability to mutate and grow impervious to AIDS drugs is the single biggest challenge of treatment, and the new research shows
- African countries negotiate to produce generic HIV drugs
- Miami Herald - Friday, December 14, 2001
- Brahima Ouedraogo
- OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Two African countries are negotiating with Thailand s government to learn how to produce cheap, generic anti-HIV drugs on Africa, the continent hardest-hit by AIDS, the World Health Organization says. Zimbabwe and Ghana are making
- Pregnant South Africans Win AIDS Help
- Associated Press - Friday December 14, 2001
- Dina Kraft, Associated Press Writer
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - The South African government s muddled AIDS policy took a major blow Friday when a court ruled that it must make a key AIDS drug available to HIV-positive pregnant women. Doctors say the drug could save the lives of 50,000 newborns a year. The Pretoria High Court said the government not on
- Profits From AIDS Drug Help Samoans
- Associated Press - Friday December 14, 2001
- David Briscoe, Associated Press Writer
- HONOLULU (AP) - The families of two Samoan women who passed on knowledge of a tree s healing powers will share in profits from any AIDS drug developed from the rainforest plant. In an agreement announced Thursday, the nonprofit AIDS ReSearch Alliance promised to give the government of Samoa and the healers 20 percent o
- South Africa Loses AIDS Lawsuit
- Associated Press - Friday December 14, 2001
- Dina Kraft, Associated Press Writer
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - AIDS activists and pediatricians won a landmark lawsuit against the government Friday, forcing it to provide a key drug to expectant mothers infected with HIV. Activists who packed the court gallery cheered and hugged each other as Judge Chris Botha read a brief judgment stating that the g
- Sickle Cell Is Cured in Lab Mice
- Associated Press - Thursday December 13, 2001
- Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have cured laboratory mice of sickle cell anemia, the inherited blood disorder that affects more than 70,000 Americans, in an experiment using stem cells, genes and a modified HIV virus. Although the treatment is years away from being tested on humans, experts called the experiment a miles
- House OKs $1.3B for AIDS Education
- Associated Press - Wednesday December 12, 2001
- Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The House approved the spending of $1.3 billion to fight the global epidemic of AIDS through bilateral and multinational programs aimed at education, prevention, treatment and research. The funds, approved by voice vote Tuesday, are double what is budgeted for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but Ho
- Nigerian AIDS Drug Trial Delayed
- Associated Press - Monday, December 10, 2001
- Glenn McKenzie, Associated Press Writer
- LAGOS, Nigeria -- A long-awaited program using cheap generic drugs to treat AIDS was delayed Monday for the second time this fall, leaving millions of Nigerians wondering when they could begin treatment. Only 10,000 adults and 5,000 children out of the 3.5 million Nigerians said to have AIDS will be covered by the tria
- Burkina Faso Calls for Solidarity
- Associated Press - Sunday December 9, 2001
- Brahima Ouedraogo, Associated Press Writer
- OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - Burkina Faso s president appealed Sunday for a new solidarity between the world s wealthy and impoverished nations to fight AIDS in Africa - the continent hardest-hit by the disease. President Blaise Compaore s comments came as experts from around the world met in the capital, Ouagadoug
- UN, Foundations Join to Treat HIV
- Associated Press - Sunday December 9, 2001
- Harmonie Toros, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Private foundations joined those of the United Nations on Friday to pledge $100 million over the next five years to improve treatment of mothers with HIV. To date, treatment of women who were pregnant and HIV-positive had focused on preventing transmission of the disease to the baby, which happens
- Study Examines Garlic Supplements
- Associated Press - Thursday December 6, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Garlic supplements, often taken in hopes of lowering cholesterol, can seriously interfere with drugs used to treat the AIDS virus, a new federal study concludes. The study makes garlic the second popular herbal remedy found to interact dangerously with prescription drugs. Experts already warn that St.
- Study: Cycling Drugs May Curb AIDS
- Associated Press - Tuesday December 4, 2001
- Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - It may be possible for AIDS patients on a powerful drug combination to take weeklong medication vacations and still control HIV, while cutting costs by half and reducing serious side effects, a study suggests. Federal researchers, whose findings appeared Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Acad
- Hospice worker wins AIDS award
- Associated Press - December 2, 2001
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Jim Greenshields always adds a spoonful of laughter, some love and understanding to every recipe he prepares for terminally ill patients, most with AIDS. Saturday, World AIDS Day, Greenshields received the fourth annual Grove Award in recognition of his 17 years working for the AIDS community. He has s
- Mandela Commemorates World AIDS Day
- Associated Press - Sunday December 2, 2001
- Mike Cohen, Associated Press Writer
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Nelson Mandela, the former president of a country now beset by a deadly AIDS epidemic, commemorated World AIDS Day Saturday by urging South Africa s youth to fight the disease and accept those who suffer from it. There is no difference whatsoever between somebody who is HIV-positive and m
- Some With AIDS Visit Voodoo Doctor
- Associated Press - Saturday December 1, 2001
- Michael Norton, Associated Press Writer
- PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - When a critically ill AIDS patient comes to Philippe Castera, the voodoo priest consults with the spirits and often tells the patient to lie in a coffin for 24 hours. The treatment isn t intended to attack the virus but the evil spirit believed to be causing the illness. Seeing the patient,
- NY Children's Charity Short on Toys
- Associated Press - Saturday December 1, 2001
- Sara Kugler, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of children with HIV or AIDS may not receive Christmas gifts this year because the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center displaced an organization that collects toys for them. For a month after the Sept. 11 attack, the Children s Hope Foundation was forced out of its office three blocks f
- AIDS epidemic unfolds across globe; World AIDS Day marks global scourge
- Associated Press - Saturday, December 1, 2001
- While other children are outside playing, Maggie Ubisi has more weighty things to deal with. The 14-year-old has to cook for her brothers and sister, clean their shack, listen to their problems. AIDS not only stole Maggie s mother from her in July, it also stole her childhood, forcing her to become a teen-age matriarch
- AIDS Day Filled With Reflection
- Associated Press - Saturday, December 1, 2001
- Margie Mason, Associated Press Writer
- SAN FRANCISCO -- They were walking corpses, the once-beautiful men who dragged themselves to pray at the Metropolitan Community Church, draping their gaunt, lesion-covered bodies across the pews. During each sermon, the Rev. Jim Mitulski would survey his Castro District congregation, wondering whom he would have to bur
- Artist's Painting Sets Size Record
- Associated Press - Friday November 30, 2001
- Martha Waggoner, Associated Press Writer
- MORRISVILLE, N.C. (AP) - An artist has been working 21-hour days in the past three weeks as he puts the finishing touches on a mammoth painting in honor of children affected by AIDS and HIV. Eric Waugh has been working for five years on Hero, a painting that will stand twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty when all th
- Nigeria Distributes Free AIDS Drugs
- Associated Press - Friday November 30, 2001
- ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria will start distributing free generic drugs to some AIDS sufferers on Dec. 10, the government announced Friday. The long-awaited program, hailed as one of the most ambitious to date in Africa, is expected to cover 10,000 adults and 5,000 children in its first year, a government statement sa
- Study: Risky HIV Groups Undertested
- Associated Press - Thursday November 29, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - Only about half the people at highest risk for HIV have been tested, suggesting U.S. infection rates could be higher than health experts thought, government researchers said Thursday. Just 54 percent of people who reported being at high or medium risk said they had been tested for the virus that causes A
- Study Examines Britain's Sexual Habits
- Associated Press - Thursday November 29, 2001
- Emma Ross, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON (AP) - Britons have more sexual partners, more homosexual encounters and indulge in more two-timing than they did a decade ago, a survey of British sexual habits has found. The survey, which gives the clearest picture to date of the sex lives of Britons, is published this week in The Lancet medical journal.
- World: AIDS epidemic sweeping across Eastern Europe, U.N. report says
- Associated Press - November 28, 2001
- Mara D. Bellaby, Associated Press
- MOSCOW (AP) - The AIDS epidemic is sweeping across Eastern Europe, with HIV infection rates rising faster within the former Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world, according to the latest U.N. report on AIDS. The report was published Wednesday. The combination of economic insecurity, high unemployment and deterio
- Syphilis Cases Drop to Record Low
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 28, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - Syphilis infections dropped to an all-time low in the United States last year, with fewer than 6,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease reported nationwide, the government said Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it recorded 5,979 cases, down nearly 10 percent from 1999.
- Delaying HIV Drugs May Be OK
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 27, 2001
- Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer
- CHICAGO (AP) - Symptom-free HIV patients can safely hold off taking AIDS drugs longer than previously thought, two new studies suggest. When antiretroviral drugs first became available in the mid-1990s, their dramatic effects prompted many doctors to recommend immediate treatment for all HIV patients to keep the virus
- AIDS Fight Weakens African Countries
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 27, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The World Bank said Tuesday it would consider providing another $500 million in no-interest loans to help developing countries combat HIV and AIDS. The announcement came in advance of World AIDS Day on Saturday. The 183-nation lending organization said the loans would go to African countries, home to
- AIDS Treatment Eludes Many Indians
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 27, 2001
- Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press Writer
- SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Many American Indians infected with HIV/AIDS aren t treated for the disease because of the stigma surrounding it in their communities, members of an Indian group said at an annual meeting Tuesday. Poverty, isolation and poor medical care also contribute to the spread of HIV and AIDS among Indians,
- Merck: Price drop helps expand access to AIDS...
- The Associated Press - November 27, 2001
- NEW YORK (AP) The number of people in poor countries taking Merck & Co. s AIDS drugs has grown 40 percent to 70,000 since the company began selling its medicines at cost to those nations nine months ago. Still, that number, announced Monday, is only a fraction of those who need to be taking the medicine, said an ad
- Nation: Women Can't Have AIDS Drug
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 27, 2001
- Dina Kraft, Associated Press Writer
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Pregnant HIV-positive women have no inherent right to a key AIDS drug that could save their babies from the deadly disease, lawyers for the South African government argued Tuesday. AIDS activists and pediatricians have sued the state in a bid to force it to make the drug
- Court Battle Begins Over Drug Access
- Associated Press - Monday November 26, 2001
- Dina Kraft, Associated Press Writer
- PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Providing a powerful AIDS drugs to all HIV-positive pregnant women could spare the lives of thousands of children, lawyers for AIDS activists argued in court Monday. Nearly 200 babies are born in South Africa with HIV every day, and studies indicate that the drug
- AIDS Activists Sue S. Africa Govt.
- Associated press - Saturday November 24, 2001
- Dina Kraft, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Busisiwe Maqungo s daughter died the same year she was born, infected with the HIV virus at birth. Maqungo said the drug nevirapine , given to HIV-positive pregnant women during labor to prevent the transmission of the virus to their babies, could have saved her daughter Nom
- Turkish Safe Sex Gets Face-Lift
- The Associated Press - Friday, Nov. 23, 2001.
- Ben Holland
- ISTANBUL, Turkey -- To wear a condom or not to wear a condom? That is the question Turkey s Health Ministry is posing to young people, enlisting Shakespeare, Chinese history and a chorus of singing condoms in an effort to spread awareness about the dangers of AIDS. With the help of UNICEF, the ministry has produced a h
- Study: Faster HIV Blood Tests Help
- Associated Press - Thursday November 22, 2001
- Emma Ross, AP Medical Writer
- LONDON (AP) - New research indicates that performing a blood test after six days of new medication, instead of the typical four weeks, could get HIV patients onto the best drug cocktail more quickly, sparing them unnecessary side effects and reducing the virus ability to become resistant to the pills. The approach, des
- Study: Drug Cocktail Cut Death Rate
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 21, 2001
- Linda A. Johnson, Associated Press Writer HFR
- The AIDS drug cocktails that have saved the lives of countless adults have proved powerfully effective in children, too. A four-year study of 1,028 HIV-infected children and teen-agers found that combining protease inhibitors with standard AIDS drugs cut the risk of death by two-thirds, to less than 1 percent annually.
- Group Slams S. Africa on AIDS Crisis
- Associated Press - Wednesday, November 21, 2001
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A leading international human rights group on Wednesday accused South Africa s president of neglect in tackling the AIDS epidemic sweeping his country. The New York-based Human Rights Watch urged President Thabo Mbeki to take urgent action to slow the spread of AIDS. Mbeki has previously been
- Juvenile AIDS Infections Low in China
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 21, 2001
- Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) - Fewer than 1,000 Chinese children have AIDS, a figure that could grow drastically unless the government exploits its brief opportunity to prevent an epidemic of the disease that is sickening young people across Asia, U.N. children s advocates said Wednesday. China accounts for half the region s 600 milli
- Some 21 Medicines May Treat Smallpox
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 20, 2001
- Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
- Scientists in search of a smallpox cure hope they ll find one already on the shelf. Their strategy: Sift through the hundreds of potential virus medicines developed by drug companies to see if any work against smallpox. Chances are good, they say, because 21 drugs have already been identified this way that can kill the
- Study: AIDS Virus Seeks Cholesterol
- Associated Press - Monday November 19, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - When the AIDS virus invades a cell, it picks a place on the cell s membrane that is rich in cholesterol, according to a new study at the National Institutes of Health. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of NIH, found that HIV, the virus that causes AIDs, a
- AIDS-Prevention Grants Scrutinized
- Associated Press - Friday, November 16, 2001
- Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON -- Sexually explicit workshops that receive government AIDS-prevention grants will undergo federal scrutiny, following an audit that found some of the programs promote sexual activity and meet the legal standard for obscenity. The inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department, Janet Rehnquist
- UN: China AIDS Conference 'Historic'News
- Associated Press - November 16, 2001
- Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) - Participants in China s first AIDS conference called for education of sex workers, installation of condom-dispensing machines and more open discussion in schools, saying such measures will reduce infection rates in the world s most populous nation. The meeting, which ended Friday, brought together more t
- Questions Over Federal AIDS Money
- Associated Press - Thursday November 15, 2001
- Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal AIDS-prevention money is paying for workshops that encourage sexual activity and meet the legal definition of obscenity, government investigators said in a report obtained Thursday. One program that was studied, Great Sex Workshop, examined ways of reducing the spread of HIV but also explored
- Board Sides With HIV Patient
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 14, 2001
- Justin Pope, AP Business Writer
- BOSTON (AP) - A state board ruled Wednesday that an HIV-positive man with end-stage liver disease should be covered by Medicaid for a potentially life-saving liver transplant. The Division of Medical Assistance Board of Appeals said the procedure was medically necessary and not experimental. Some scientists believe tha
- China AIDS conference breaks down wall, taboo
- Associated Press - November 13, 2001
- BEIJING -- Fear of discrimination prevents farmer Zhang Jianqi from telling his new neighbors in Beijing that his 8-year-old daughter has AIDS. Despair at finding treatment drove the two from their home village in Henan province, 620 miles south of the capital. Now, renting a room in a polluted village on Beijing s nor
- UN Warns of AIDS Spreading in China
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 13, 2001
- Ted Anthony, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) - Members of the increasingly affluent middle class that is powering China s explosive growth can carry AIDS up the economic ladder from poorer environments where infections spread most rapidly, a United Nations official warned Tuesday as the nation s first AIDS conference began. The problem, common in cou
- China Opens First AIDS Conference
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 13, 2001
- Ted Anthony, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) - China opened its first conference on AIDS Tuesday, promising to dedicate more resources to fighting the disease and to spread information into the vast nation s every corner - from government officials in Beijing to residents of the tiniest villages. More than 2,700 participants from 20 nations - doctors
- China to Hold Landmark AIDS Meeting
- Associated Press - Monday November 12, 2001
- Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING (AP) - China is holding a national conference on AIDS this week, underscoring growing concern about the spread of the disease in the world s most populous nation. Health care officials are alarmed the 30 percent annual growth rate in HIV infections and want to slow it to 10 percent by 2005. AIDS experts estimat
- Swazi King Violates His Own Sex Ban
- Associated Press - Sunday November 11, 2001
- MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) - Swaziland s king paid the traditional fine of one cow Sunday for violating his own ban prohibiting girls under age 18 from having sexual relations. About 300 young women marched to a royal residence outside of the capital, Mbabane, and laid down their symbolic chastity belts - a multicolored t
- AIDS patient in China takes stage
- Associated Press - Friday, November 9, 2001
- Martin Fackler
- SHANGHAI, China - The 27-year-old man traces the beginning of his nightmare to a drunken night two years ago, when a colleague took him to one of Shanghai s dozens of illegal brothels disguised as beauty salons. Two months later, he learned he had the AIDS virus. Like many with AIDS in China, he has not told friends an
- Vatican Slams U.N. Refugee Sex Manual
- Associated Press - Thursday November 8, 2001
- VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican harshly criticized a U.N. manual for handling sexual issues in refugee camps, saying that it raised serious and numerous concerns for the Catholic church. The manual promotes without reserve the so-called morning-after pill for contraception, presents sterilization as simple birth contro
- Court erases order to disclose names of HIV patients
- Associated Press - November 7, 2001
- MIAMI -- (AP) -- An appeals court erased a court order Wednesday requiring a doctor to reveal the names and addresses of patients who received prescription drugs for HIV through his pharmacy. The 3rd District Court of Appeal decided state laws protecting patient privacy rights and HIV confidentiality do not allow for t
- All-Purpose Drugs Are Being Tested
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 7, 2001
- Jeff Donn, Associated Press Writer
- American smart bombs zero in on programmed targets in Afghanistan . Bioterrorism protection at home may demand drugs that do just the opposite - kill just about any germ target in sight. Some researchers are trying to fashion such universal drugs. They would combat a wide spectrum of germs, the immune system breakdown
- Chinese Man Reveals AIDS Struggle
- Associated Press - Wednesday November 7, 2001
- Martin Fackler, Associated Press Writer
- SHANGHAI, China (AP) - The 27-year-old man traces the beginning of his nightmare to a drunken night two years ago, when a colleague took him to one of Shanghai s dozens of illegal brothels disguised as beauty salons. Two months later, he learned he had the AIDS virus. Like many with AIDS in China, he has not told frien
- Magic Johnson Thrives Desspite HIV
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 6, 2001
- John Nadel, AP Sports Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten years later, he is playing ball against guys half his age. He is running a small empire of theaters, coffeehouses and restaurants. And his smile - the one that launched a thousand ads - remains as wide as ever. I feel wonderful, Magic Johnson said. Everything is great, wonderful. I celebrate life
- HIV-Positive Offender Gets 17 Years
- Associated Press - Tuesday November 6, 2001
- Larry Neumeister, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - A California man was sentenced Monday to 171/2 years in prison on a federal child sex conviction after prosecutors argued he deserved a longer prison term because he knew he was HIV positive when he planned to meet a boy for unprotected sex. District Judge Richard Casey called John Weisser a predator wh
- Cops: HIV-Positive Indian Kills Kin
- Associated Press - Monday November 5, 2001
- HYDERABAD, India (AP) - A 22-year-old man axed to death five members of his family and seriously wounded three others after he tested positive for HIV and lost his job as a result, police said Sunday. Srinivas Rao also tried to kill himself after attacking his relatives Saturday, police said in Atreyapuram, a village i
- Official: War on Disease Still Key
- Associated Press - Friday November 2, 2001
- George Gedda, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department s top science adviser said Friday the war on terrorism must not deflect attention from the need to combat infectious diseases, some of which, he said, could engulf entire continents if left unchecked. The United States and the international community must not and will not let terr
- Magic Johnson Says He's Feeling Fine
- Associated Press - Thursday November 1, 2001
- Malcolm Johnson, Associated Press Writer
- By LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Magic Johnson told his hometown fans that he doesn t feel sick from the HIV virus that causes AIDS. First of all, I m not sick. I have to correct you there, Johnson told a reporter Thursday as he appeared at a supermarket to meet fans and sign autographs. I feel wonderful. It s a situation that
- Haunted House Wants Safer Teen Sex
- Associated Press - Tuesday October 30, 2001
- Lucas L. Johnson II, Associated Press Writer
- NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Teen-agers may have outgrown their fear of ghouls and goblins, but health officials believe their haunted house has something far scarier: gonorrhea and genital warts. Hoping to combat one of the nation s highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases, city health officials have staged the STD F
- McDonald's loses $5M HIV lawsuit
- The Associated Press - Monday, October 29, 2001
- CLEVELAND — A jury has awarded a former McDonald s restaurant manager $5 million based on his claims the company discriminated against him because he has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The jury in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court deliberated less than three hours Friday after a nine-day trial before ruling in favor
- FDA OKs New Drug to Fight AIDS
- Associated Press - Monday, Oct. 29, 2001
- Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON - A new anti-viral drug is being added to the arsenal of anti-AIDS medications. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it has approved Viread for use in combination with other drugs in fighting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The drug blocks reproduction of the virus, the agency said.
- World conference focuses on improving lives of those with AIDS
- Associated Press - October 27, 2001
- PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Faye Gonzalez volunteered to be injected with a new experimental vaccine against HIV because the virus exacted a personal toll, taking the life of a close friend last year. If by helping to develop a vaccine I could spare somebody else that pain, then I want to be part of that, the 35-year-ol
- World AIDS Conference Begins
- Associated Press - Saturday October 27, 2001
- Tony Fraser, Associated Press Writer
- PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Faye Gonzalez said she volunteered to be injected with a new experimental vaccine against HIV after the virus took the life of a close friend last year. If by helping to develop a vaccine I could spare somebody else that pain, then I want to be part of that, Gonzalez, 35, said recently a
- AIDS Cases Rise in China
- Associated Press - Saturday October 27, 2001
- BEIJING (AP) - China recorded 5,616 new cases of AIDS infection in the first nine months of this year, more than in all of last year, a state newspaper said Saturday. That raised the known number of people in China with the HIV virus to 28,133, the China Youth Daily said. Last year, some 5,201 new cases were reported,
- Dutch Cabinet OKs Prescription Pot Plan
- Associated Press - October 19, 2001
- Anthony Deutsch, Associated Press Writer
- AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch Cabinet approved a bill today that would allow pharmacies to fill marijuana prescriptions and for the government to pay for them. Parliament was expected to vote in the next few months on the proposal to put medicinal marijuana on the national health care plan. If the bill is passed
- Report estimates AIDS could kill up to 7 million South Africans by 2010
- Associated Press - October 16, 2001
- Mike Cohen, Associated Press
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Researchers released a report Tuesday estimating AIDS could kill as many as 7 million South Africans by 2010, and they said government officials disputing the findings simply did not understand them. The report, commissioned by the Medical Research Council, said AIDS would account for one-thir
- Rebels in Colombia forcing residents of town to be tested for HIV
- Associated Press - Sunday, October 14, 2001
- VISTA HERMOSA, Colombia -- Confounding officials who are powerless to stop them, guerrillas from Colombia s largest rebel army are forcing all residents of this town inside a southern rebel haven to be tested for HIV. Three people who tested positive have reportedly been expelled from the zone. The leftist Revoluti
- Colombian Rebels Forcing AIDS Tests
- Associated Press - Saturday, October 13, 2001
- JuanPablo Toro, Associated Press Writer
- VISTA HERMOSA, Colombia - Confounding officials who are powerless to stop them, Colombia s largest guerrilla army is forcing all residents of this town inside a southern rebel safe haven to be tested for AIDS. Three people who tested positive have reportedly been expelled from the zone. The leftist Revolutionary Ar
- China Paper Reports on 118 With HIV
- Associated Press - Thursday October 11, 2001
- BEIJING (AP) - In an unusual official look at China s AIDS epidemic, a state newspaper on Thursday said 118 people in one village contracted the virus while selling blood. At least 10 of those infected have developed full-blown AIDS and six have died, the Guangzhou Daily reported. The report added to mounting official
- Asia-Pacific Nations Fighting AIDS
- Associated Press - Wednesday October 10, 2001
- Emma Tinkler, Associated Press Writer
- MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Government ministers from more than 30 nations in the Asia-Pacific region concluded a conference Wednesday by committing themselves to the fight against the AIDS epidemic. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the 33 ministers who attended the Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting - h
- Latest S. Africa AIDS Victim Buried
- Associated Press - Tuesday October 9, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - As the South African government debated over the past few weeks just how deadly its HIV crisis is, Francina Mteniso lay in a hospital bed dying of the disease. She was buried Tuesday in a funeral full of tears and prayers, but also full of defiance against what many mourners saw as the gover
- AIDS Vaccine Said Ready in 10 Years
- Associated Press - Sunday October 7, 2001
- Emma Tinkler, Associated Press Writer
- MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Researchers are optimistic a vaccine for HIV/AIDS will be available within 10 years, though the cost could be beyond the reach of many countries and its efficacy will probably be limited, a U.S. health expert said Sunday. Dozens of vaccine prototypes are under development around the world, w
- Generic AIDS Drug in South Africa
- Associated Press - Sunday October 7, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has granted a generic drug manufacturer a license to produce and market three key AIDS medicines in South Africa, a Glaxo official told The Associated Press Sunday. Under the deal, to be officially announced Monday, the South African company Asp
- Milk Bank Provides Aid to Newborns
- Associated Press - Sunday October 7, 2001
- Connie Mabin, Associated Press Writer
- AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The adoration can be heard in Rachel Durkin-Drga s voice as she cradles her 6-month-old daughter, Madeleine. She s flirting with the ceiling fan, the first-time mother says, her daughter cooing happily in her arms. She s doing very well and just going gangbusters. Madeleine entered the world in qui
- Roche Laments AIDS Drug Delivery
- Associated Press - Friday October 5, 2001
- BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - With AIDS drug prices slashed for the poorest countries, the problem now is how to get the vital medicine delivered to people with the disease, the head of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Friday. We need infrastructure, training ... political will and commitment, Roche chief executive F
- More Attention Urged for AIDS in Asia
- Associated Press - Friday October 5, 2001
- Emma Tinkler, Associated Press Writer
- MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Delegates at an AIDS conference warned governments in Asia and the Pacific on Friday that they can no longer ignore an epidemic that has infected 6.4 million people in the region and is spreading quickly. Activists also called on drug companies to put people before profit in the fight agains
- HIV/AIDS spreading rapidly in Asia after a decade of low infection rates, report says
- The Associated Press - October 4, 2001
- SYDNEY, Australia (AP) After more than a decade of relatively low rates of infection, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has begun spreading rapidly through Asia and the Pacific region, according to a report released Thursday. The rise, in some of the world s most populated countries, is mostly in high risk groups, such as intraven
- Some Blood Donors Get Bad News
- Associated Press - Friday September 28, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - Some Americans who rushed to donate blood for strangers hurt in the terrorist attacks will get a very personal shock - news that traces of disease have turned up in their contributions. Two weeks after the suicide hijackings, the first letters and phone calls are going out to donors whose blood was rejec
- Gene-Based AIDs Test Hits Market
- Associated Press - Thursday September 27, 2001
- Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has approved the first gene-based test to tell quickly whether an HIV patient s virus is mutating to make a particular drug therapy fail, important to know so the person can switch AIDS medications. Visible Genetics Inc. s Trugene is one of the most complex genetic test systems to clear
- Thais banding to fight AIDS
- Associated Press - Tuesday, September 25, 2001
- Vijay Joshi
- MAE CHAN, Thailand - Six women with HIV sit in the makeshift sauna, absorbing the acrid steam laced with herbal medicines in the hope it will ease their chronic fatigue. In a village nearby, a crowd is watching a show in which puppets tell the story of a family devastated by the teenage daughter s misadventure with uns
- Lawsuit Filed for HIV-Positive Teen
- Associated Press - Friday September 21, 2001
- MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Federal officials have sued a grocery store on behalf of a 16-year-old who says she was fired from her job bagging groceries because she has the AIDS virus. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued on behalf of Korrin Krause, who complained she was fired in February after one day on the job
- Libya Accused of Political Trial
- Associated Press - Thursday September 20, 2001
- Donna Abu-Nasr, Associated Press Writer
- TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - It began in the summer of 1998, when several infants died and no one immediately knew why. Three years later, six Bulgarians and a Palestinian - all doctors and nurses - face the death penalty if they are convicted of killing 393 children by injecting them with blood contaminated with the AIDS vir
- AIDS patient in final stages of disease admits molesting 15-year-old girl
- Associated Press - September 20, 2001
- COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) A 40-year-old man in the final stages of AIDS has pleaded guilty to molesting a 15-year-old girl. Prosecutor George Lipscomb said the incident occurred Feb. 12 after the girl fled a bad home life and called Hector L. Ayala. He took her to his apartment and engaged in sexual contact with her. She w
- St. Louis mayor orders removal of billboards aimed at raising AIDS awareness
- Associated Press - September 20, 2001
- Joe Stange
- ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis mayor ordered the removal of nine taxpayer-funded billboards aimed at raising AIDS awareness, including eight that show two bare-chested black men embracing with the caption, Brothers Loving Brothers Safely. Mayor Francis Slay said Tuesday the billboards were inappropriate. Slay s chief of sta
- SAfrica Official: AIDS Drugs Costly
- Associated Press - Thursday September 13, 2001
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Although pharmaceutical companies have cut the price of AIDS medication, South Africa still cannot afford to provide the drugs through the public health system, the health minister said Thursday. More than 4.7 million South Africans, 11 percent of the population, are HIV positive - one of
- Brazilian AIDS Drugs to Be Exported
- Associated Press - Thursday September 13, 2001
- Peter Muello, Associated Press Writer
- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Doctors Without Borders plans to export to developing countries Brazil s controversial anti-AIDS program and AIDS drugs, including locally made copies of patented medicines. The international aid organization said Thursday it signed a pact this week with Brazilian health minister Jose Serr
- Company Drops Feud Over AIDS Vaccine
- Associated Press - Tuesday September 11, 2001
- Paul Elias, AP Biotechnology Writer
- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A biotechnology company founded by Jonas Salk ended its multimillion-dollar feud Tuesday with the University of California, San Francisco, over the school s conclusion that an AIDS vaccine it developed doesn t work. Immune Response Corp. funded the school s research on the drug and then tried to bl
- Fed Funds Used for Explicit Workshops
- Associated Press - Sunday September 9, 2001
- Larry Margasak, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The advertisements addressed to gay men were provocative: Learn to write racy stories about your sexual encounters, choose toys for solo and partner sex or share tales of erotic experiences. All of it was done at government expense, in the name of preventing AIDS. These expenditures - along with other
- AIDS Vaccines May Protect Infected
- Associated Press - Friday, September 7, 2001
- Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
- PHILADELPHIA -- Vaccines intended to protect people from getting AIDS may also work as a treatment for those already infected, boosting their immune system so they can temporarily stop taking AIDS drugs. So-called therapeutic vaccines, which harness the body s own immune system to control HIV, have long been a goal of
- Nigeria Starts AIDS Program
- Associated Press - Friday, September 7, 2001
- Glenn McKenzie, Associated Press Writer
- ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria began what it called Africa s most ambitious AIDS treatment program Friday - although health officials admitted they had yet to receive any of the cheap generic drugs needed for the plan. The government s program had originally been scheduled to kick off Sept. 1. Officials, however, have not f
- Store Denies Firing Because of HIV
- Associated Press - Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001
- SCHOFIELD, Wis. -- A grocery store owner disputes a 16-year-old girl s claim that she was fired as a bagger because she has HIV. Bernard Enkro, owner of Quality Foods IGA, said Korrin Krause was offered another job as an office clerical worker after the store discovered she has the AIDS virus. Our interest was in prote
- AIDS Experiment Has Promising Results
- Associated Press - Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001
- Daniel Q. Haney, AP Medical Editor
- PHILADELPHIA -- For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of virus, raising hopes that scientists may be headed at last toward an effective vaccine for people. Several studies presented at an AIDS vaccine conference
- U.S. drug company calls on Caribbean to provide more HIV drugs
- Associated Press - Wednesday, September 5, 2001
- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- In a reversal of roles, a U.S. pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday the Caribbean wasn t doing enough to provide discounted HIV-fighting drugs to patients. For years, developing nations complained that prices for HIV drugs put them out of their reach. Then in March, New Jersey-based
- Studies Suggest That Hepatitis-G Virus May Prolong the Lives of AIDS Patients
- Associated Press - September 5, 2001
- Infection with an apparently harmless, recently discovered virus seems to interfere with HIV, slowing its progression and prolonging survival of people infected with the AIDS virus. What isn t known is exactly how the virus, called GBV-C or hepatitis G, inhibits HIV. Researchers say that if they can figure that out, it
- Access to HIV drugs criticized
- Associated Press - Wednesday, September 5, 2001
- Marcelo Ballve
- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- (AP) -- In a reversal of roles, a U.S. pharmaceutical giant said Tuesday the Caribbean wasn t doing enough to provide discounted HIV-fighting drugs to patients. For years, developing nations complained that prices for HIV drugs put them out of their reach. Then in March, New Jersey-based Merck
- AIDS Chief: Stigma Is Discrimination
- Associated Press - Wednesday September 5, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - The stigma surrounding the AIDS pandemic has helped fuel the spread of the disease around the world, the United Nations AIDS chief told the world conference against racism. The discrimination is rooted in a combination of shame about the sexual way the virus is often transmitted and fear of
- Racism Meeting Discusses HIV
- Associated Press - Wednesday September 5, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- DURBAN, South Africa (AP) - Countries gathered at the world racism conference need to adopt legislation to outlaw discrimination against those infected with HIV , the United Nations top AIDS fighter said Wednesday. The laws should send a clear message of support to people who are infected, a message that should encoura
- Health Care Tops Agenda at Convention
- Associated Press - Tuesday September 4, 2001
- Ashley H. Grant, Associated Press Writer
- MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Delegates attending the annual convention of a prominent black denomination were greeted Tuesday with dispiriting statistics concerning health care. The National Baptist Convention USA heard that the average life expectancy for blacks in the United States is 64.4 years, compared with 73 for whites; t
- Teen Says She Was Fired Due to HIV
- Associated Press - Sunday, Sept. 2, 2001
- SCHOFIELD, Wis. -- A 16-year-old girl who was born with the HIV virus has filed a discrimination complaint against her first employer alleging she was fired because of her illness. Korrin Krause worked only one day as a grocery bagger at Quality Foods IGA before the manager called her mother to verify she had HIV and s
- HIV problems are predicted
- Associated Press - Sunday, September 2, 2001
- WASHINGTON - The share of HIV infections that are drug-resistant will jump to 42 percent in San Francisco by 2005, according to a team of researchers. Estimating the current rate of drug resistance at 28.5 percent, the group used a mathematical formula to calculate its likely increase over the next few years. HIV, the
- Brazil withdraws AIDS drug patent threat after Roche agrees to slash price
- Associated Press - September 1, 2001
- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Brazil withdrew its threat to ignore patents and start making a generic version of a powerful AIDS drug Friday after a Swiss pharmaceutical giant promised to slash prices by 40 percent. Health Minister Jose Serra, who last week said Brazil would start producing a generic version of the drug
- Report: Drug-Resistant HIV to Jump
- Associated Press - Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
- Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON -- The share of HIV infections that are drug-resistant will jump to 42 percent in San Francisco by 2005, according to a team of researchers. Estimating the current rate of drug resistance at 28.5 percent, the group used a mathematical formula to calculate its likely increase over the next few years. HIV, hum
- Republic of Congo Starts HIV Program
- Associated Press - Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
- Louis Okambo, Associated Press Writer
- BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo -- Clinics in Republic of Congo s capital will provide free HIV treatment to pregnant women starting Monday, part of an effort to block mother-to-child transmission in one of the African countries hardest-hit by AIDS. The West African nation of Ghana , meanwhile, said it is in negotiatio
- AIDS leading cause of death in Thailand
- Associated Press - August 31, 2001
- BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) AIDS is the leading cause of death in Thailand not heart attacks or accidents as previously thought, health officials said Friday. AIDS and related complications accounted for 16 percent of all deaths in 1998, said Dr. Chanpen Chuprapawan of the Health Ministry, after examining 20,000 deaths in s
- Predictions on HIV Infections Made
- Associated Press - Friday August 31, 2001
- Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The share of HIV (news - web sites) infections that are drug-resistant will jump to 42 percent in San Francisco by 2005, according to a team of researchers. Estimating the current rate of drug resistance at 28.5 percent, the group used a mathematical formula to calculate its likely increase over the n
- US Official Warns of AIDS in China
- Associated Press - Friday August 31, 2001
- BEIJING (AP) - China s AIDS epidemic, until now largely confined to drug users and others at high risk, could spread rapidly in the general population without swift and effective measures, a U.S. health official said Thursday. Current pilot HIV-prevention programs are too small and few Chinese know how to avoid catchin
- Merck Helps Caribbean Fight AIDS: Merck Cuts Prices on HIV Drugs for Caribbean; Gives 85 Percent Discount on Crixivan and Stocrin
- Associated Press - Tuesday August 28, 2001
- SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- U.S. drug company Merck & Co. said Tuesday it is making HIV-fighting drugs available to eight poor Caribbean countries at cut-rate prices. Two anti-HIV medications -- Crixivan and Stocrin -- are b
- Princess Diana Fund Aids Africans
- Associated Press - Monday August 27, 2001
- LONDON (AP) - Princess Diana s memorial fund launched a $7.2 million initiative Tuesday to help Africans suffering from terminal illnesses. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund said the money will be used to ease the suffering of those in the final stages of HIV , AIDS and cancer. For millions of people in this r
- South African Youth Speaks Out on AIDS
- Associated Press - Monday, August 27, 2001
- Mike Cohen, Associated Press Writer
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- In a steady voice, 16-year-old Jabu tells how her father raped her repeatedly, infecting her with the HIV virus. Once too scared to speak out, she encouraged others Friday to fight anti-AIDS discrimination in South Africa at the first national meeting of children who are either infected or wh
- AIDS Turnaround: Researchers suddenly upbeat over vaccine prospects
- Associated Press - August 25, 2001
- ATLANTA (AP) The scientists trying to create a vaccine to prevent AIDS suddenly seem optimistic, even bullish, words that have not been heard much in this perennially gloomy field. For the first time, many researchers appear confident a vaccine is possible. More than anything else, the monkeys are responsible for the c
- HIV Vaccine Creators Share Patents
- Associated Press - Friday, Aug. 24, 2001
- Andrew England, Associated Press Writer
- NAIROBI, Kenya -- Three partners developing and testing the first HIV/AIDS vaccine specifically designed for an African strain of the disease have agreed to joint ownership of the drug s patents. The three-year agreement signed Friday settles one of the hurdles that had earlier threatened to delay testing the vaccine t
- Chinese AIDS activist says government has stopped harassment
- Associated Press - August 24, 2001
- Martin Fackler, Associated Press Writer
- SHANGHAI, China (AP) The threatening phone calls and summons by angry officials are over. Government leaders who once shunned her now smile and say hello in public. The reversal represents a victory of sorts for Gao Yaojie, a retired gynecologist who publicized the spread of AIDS through illegal blood buying in rural v
- State Dept. Ends HIV Screening
- Associated Press - Thursday August 23 4:37 PM ET
- Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department is ending HIV screening of foreign personnel and locally hired Americans at U.S. diplomatic posts. In an announcement Thursday, the department said, With this new policy, the U.S. sets an example consistent with its message of nondiscrimination to host countries. The new policy ap
- Reported AIDS Cases in China Climb
- Associated Press - Thursday, Aug. 23, 2001
- John Leicester, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING -- China registered a sharp increase in reported cases of HIV infections this year, and infection rates among drug users and prostitutes are climbing, the Ministry of Health reported Thursday. In the first six months of 2001, 3,541 new infections were reported, a 67 percent increase compared to the 2,115 cases
- S. Africa suit demands drug to protect babies from HIV
- Associated Press - Wednesday, August 22, 2001
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- AIDS activists and pediatricians filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the South African government, demanding it provide medicine to HIV-infected, pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the disease to their babies. The Treatment Action Campaign, a coalition of AIDS activists, has been n
- AIDS activists, doctors sue South Africa
- Associated Press - August 22, 2001
- Ravi Nessman
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- AIDS activists, doctors sue South African government to force drug distribution to babies With hundreds of South African babies born with HIV every day, AIDS activists and doctors sued the government Tuesday demanding it distribute a key AIDS drug that could slash that number in half.
- AIDS Doctors Sue SAfrica Over Care
- Associated Press - Tuesday August 21, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - AIDS activists and a group of pediatricians sued the government on Tuesday, demanding it provide medicine to HIV -infected pregnant women to help stop the disease from passing to their babies. The Treatment Action Campaign, a coalition of AIDS activists, has been negotiating with South
- Thai village is model for AIDS treatment, help
- Associated Press - August 21, 2001
- MAE CHAN, Thailand -- Six women with HIV sit in the makeshift sauna, absorbing the acrid steam laced with herbal medicines in the hope it will ease their chronic fatigue. In a village nearby, a crowd is watching a show in which puppets tell the story of a family devastated by the teenage daughter s misadventure with un
- AIDS Group to Sue South Africa
- Associated Press - Monday August 20, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - South African AIDS activists said Monday they plan to sue the government to force it to give medicine to HIV-infected pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the disease to their babies. The Treatment Action Campaign, which has been pushing the government to give the AIDS drug
- A prison within a prison: At Alabama's Limestone Correctional Facility, inmates with AIDS are confined to a single compound and are excluded from programs offered to other prisoners
- Associated Press - Sunday, August 19, 2001
- David Crary, Associated Press
- CAPSHAW, Ala. -- A prison within a prison, the Special Unit lives up to its name. Every man in the Alabama prison system known to have AIDS is confined here, a converted warehouse at the Limestone Correctional Facility. More than 200 prisoners -- some frail and red-eyed, others fortified by bodybuilding -- inhabit long
- AIDS plateaus hint at U.S. complacency
- Associated Press - August 15, 2001
- Erin McClam
- ATLANTA -- The declines in the number of Americans contracting AIDS and those dying of the disease are leveling off, signaling a disturbing turning point in the 20-year epidemic, federal health officials said Monday. AIDS cases and deaths peaked in the early 1990s, then fell steadily as new, more effective drugs took h
- Study: Many Discover HIV Late
- Associated Press - Tuesday, August 14, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA -- More than 40 percent of HIV-positive Americans don t know they are infected until just before developing full-blown AIDS, sometimes missing out on a decade or more of treatment, suggests a government study released Tuesday. The study of about 19,000 AIDS patients found about two in five first tested positive
- Ala. Launches AIDS Awareness Program
- Associated Press - Monday August 13, 2001
- Bob Johnson, Associated Press Writer
- MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Officials have launched a program to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS among blacks in a state where they make up about one-quarter of the population but accounted for more than two-thirds of new cases of the virus last year. The program, being developed by Alabama State University, includes br
- U.S. AIDS Findings Cause Concern
- Associated Press - Monday, August 13, 2001
- ATLANTA (AP) - The declines in the number of Americans contracting AIDS and those dying of the disease are leveling off, signaling a disturbing turning point in the 20-year epidemic, federal health officials said Monday. AIDS cases and deaths peaked in the early 1990s, then fell steadily as new, more effective drugs to
- Asia Sex Industry Hurts AIDS Efforts
- Associated Press - Monday, August 13, 2001
- David Thurber - Associated Press Writer
- HANOI, Vietnam -- Asia s sex industry is growing rapidly and diversifying, making efforts to control AIDS more difficult, the World Health Organization said Monday. It said Asia has managed to greatly reduce the severity of its AIDS epidemic with programs encouraging condom use. For example, in
- On AIDS-ravaged continent, Senegal able to boast rare feat
- Associated Press - Sunday, August 12, 2001
- Alexandra Zavis
- DAKAR, Senegal -- With a twinkle in her eye, a mother of 10 slips a condom over a Coke bottle before a room of attentive Muslim women in veils and long dresses. This is how I protect my partner, Aminata Niang explains, then cracks a few risque jokes before launching into a frank discussion about how to use and dispose
- Mother of HIV-Infected Boy Still Favors Ruling
- Associated Press - August 12, 2001
- Rebecca Mahoney
- BANGOR, Maine -- Valerie Emerson had been ready to disappear for days by the time the judge reached his decision. The car had a full tank of gas. The trunk was crammed with clothes. A road map was marked with safe houses throughout the country where she and her three boys could seek refuge. She had already said goodbye
- Powell Set for Talks in Bahamas
- The Associated Press - Tuesday, August 7, 2001
- WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit the Bahamas on Aug. 13 for talks on bilateral cooperation in the areas of counter-narcotics, illegal migration, financial reform, HIV/AIDS prevention and regional issues.
- Ad Campaign Links Habits, Fertility
- The Associated Press - Monday, August 6, 2001
- WASHINGTON -- Adults who want to have children should pay closer attention to their habits, weight and advancing age, says a new ad campaign. Using the Internet and public service announcements displayed on city buses, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine asks men and women in their 20s and early 30s to curb
- Nigerian President Urges Condom Use
- Associated Press - Sunday, August 5, 2001
- ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo urged his country s military brass to distribute free condoms to the armed forces to help fight the spread of AIDS, a newspaper reported Sunday. We must not allow HIV-AIDS to ravage our armed forces, the independent Guardian newspaper quoted Obasanjo as telling mil
- HIV Patients Getting More Transplants
- Associated Press - Thursday August 2, 2001
- Denise Lavoie, Associated Press Writer
- BOSTON (AP) - When Belynda Dunn s HMO rejected her request for a liver transplant because of her HIV infection, she felt like she had been slapped across the face. I think it just goes along with the idea that if you have HIV, you ve got the black plague, said Dunn, a 49-year-old AIDS activist who s worked to stop the
- Bishops denounce use of condoms in AIDS battle
- Associated Press - Tuesday, July 31, 2001
- PRETORIA, South Africa -- Roman Catholic bishops in southern Africa denounced condoms on Monday as an immoral and misguided weapon in the fight against HIV infection but said married couples with the AIDS virus could use them in limited circumstances. The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference said condoms may
- Nigeria Launching Largest AIDS Program
- Associated Press - Tuesday July 31, 2001
- EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Nigeria plans to launch the largest AIDS treatment program in Africa using cheap generic drugs on Sept. 1, a U.N. special envoy said. The 10,000 adults and 5,000 children who will receive a drug cocktail are just a tiny fraction of the more than 2.6 million Nigerians infected with the HIV virus t
- Panel Urges FDA on Parental Consent
- Associated Press - Tuesday July 31, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - A government panel is recommending that the Food and Drug Administration let certain teen-agers participate in medical experiments without their parents consent. The FDA regulates all testing of drugs and medical devices. FDA attorneys say federal law governing the agency mandates that only adults can
- Rules Broaden Use of Medical Marijuana
- Associated Press - Monday July 30, 2001
- By TOM COHEN, Associated Press Writer
- TORONTO (AP) - Canadians suffering from terminal illnesses and chronic conditions such as arthritis can legally grow and smoke marijuana, or designate someone else to grow it for them, under regulations that take effect Monday. The new rules are part of the first system in the world that includes a government-approved
- Debate on Slave Reparations Sought
- Associated Press - Monday July 30, 2001
- GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration should not dodge debate over whether the United States owes compensation to blacks because of slavery, the president of the National Urban League says. Arguments for reparations are morally and legally compelling; we should press our case on the conscience of this country and t
- U.S. Teen Births Fall to Record Low
- Associated Press - Tuesday, July 24, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA -- The teen birth rate fell to a record low in the United States last year, continuing a steady drop that began in the 1990s, the government said Tuesday. For every 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, there were 48.7 births last year - the lowest rate in the six decades the statistic has been kept, the National Center
- AIDS-Stricken Thai Boy Offered Visa
- Associated Press - July 24 2001
- Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES -- Advocates for an AIDS-stricken Thai boy who was used as a prop by immigration smugglers have won their battle to keep the boy in America. Four-year-old Phanupong Got Khaisri will become the first applicant for a new kind of visa for victims of trafficking and violence, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
- Bristol-Myers Squibb to Expand
- The Associated Press - Monday, July 23, 2001
- NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb on Monday announced a nearly $250 million project to expand research and development operations at its 96-acre campus here. The project will increase Bristol-Myers capacity to develop and produce new medicines, including drugs to treat cancer, HIV and hepatitis B,
- G8 Leaders Fail to Resolve Differences
- Associated Press - Sunday, July 22, 2001
- Robert H. Reid, Associated Press Writer
- GENOA, Italy -- President Bush and other world leaders closed out a protest-marred summit Sunday, conceding that they were unable to resolve sharp differences between the United States and the rest of the nations over global warming, according to a draft of their final communique. The draft communique said all the
- Bush to Keep National AIDS Council
- Associated Press - Sunday, July 22, 2001
- Anjetta McQueen, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - A task force created by President Bush and a panel from the Clinton era will work together on the new administration s AIDS agenda. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said he recommended that the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS continue, even though federal rules governin
- Summit Africa Statement
- The Associated Press - Saturday, July 21, 2001
- The statement on Africa issued Saturday at the summit of major industrialized nations: Meeting at the Genova G8 summit, we agreed to support African efforts to resolve African problems. Peace, stability and the eradication of poverty in Africa are among the most important challenges we face in the new millennium. We we
- Study Finds Condoms Mostly Effective
- Associated Press - Friday, July 20, 2001
- Anjetta McQueen, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON -- Condoms can reduce the spread of HIV and gonorrhea, but there is not enough evidence to say for certain they protect against other sexually transmitted diseases, federal health officials said Friday. To definitely answer the remaining questions about condom effectiveness for preventing STD (sexually trans
- HIV Program in Thailand Cuts Risk
- Associated Press - Thursday July 19, 2001
- ATLANTA (AP) - A program in Thailand to test and treat women for the AIDS virus reduced the risk of mother-to-child transmission by two-thirds, offering a model for other developing nations, the U.S. government said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the program reduced the transmission risk
- Health Experts Ask G8 for AIDS Money
- Associated Press - Wednesday July 18, 2001
- Matt Crenson, AP National Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - Public health experts are asking the world s industrial powers to give more to a new international AIDS fund, saying the nearly $1 billion raised so far is not nearly enough to fight the global epidemic. Donor countries are fooling themselves if they feel that this would make a significant impact; it wi
- Man Imprisoned on Rape, HIV Charges
- Associated Press - Wednesday July 18, 2001
- STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - A German court sentenced an American disc jockey to 10 years in prison for rape and infecting at least four women with the AIDS virus. Stuttgart Judge Stefan Eckert ruled Wednesday that Stoney Berly Gibbs, 36, had acted irresponsibly by sleeping with several women without using a condom, altho
- World Bank Urges Russia on AIDS
- Associated Press - Sunday July 15, 2001
- Anna Dolgov, Associated Press Writer
- MOSCOW (AP) - The head of the World Bank urged the government Friday to use its rebounding economy to combat the spread of AIDS and tuberculosis. The World Bank has offered Russia a $150 million loan to fund treatment and prevention programs, but details are still being worked out with the Russian Health Ministry.
- SAfrican Bishops Consider Condom Use
- Associated Press - Wednesday July 11, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - With millions of Africans dying from AIDS and millions more infected every year, a group of Roman Catholic clergy in southern Africa is debating whether the church should relax its blanket ban on condom use. A proposal by the AIDS office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Confer
- Study Backs AIDS Drug Cocktails
- Associated Press - Tuesday July 10, 2001
- Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer
- CHICAGO (AP) - Two new studies suggest that the slight blips in virus levels that many AIDS patients experience while taking drug cocktails do not necessarily mean the treatment is failing after all. The findings could have significant implications for AIDS treatment. Doctors generally try to suppress the AIDS virus to
- House Committee OKs $15.2B Aid Bill
- Associated Press - Tuesday July 10, 2001
- Carolyn Skorneck, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans beat back two Democratic attempts to slash funds from the war on drugs in South America before the House Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday night to approve spending $15.2 billion in foreign aid next year. The bill, which matches President Bush s overall request for foreign aid, is up
- AIDS Deaths in Prisons Fall Sharply
- Associated Press - Sunday July 8, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - AIDS -related deaths in the nation s prisons have fallen sharply because of better treatment, but increasing numbers of inmates have tested positive for the virus that causes the disease, a Justice Department study says. In 1999, 242 state prisoners died from AIDS-related causes, down from a 1995 peak
- Former Zambia Ruler Leads AIDS Fight
- Associated Press - Thursday July 5, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Kenneth Kaunda was nothing if not a man of power. He led Zambia to independence from Britain, became his country s unchallenged ruler and spearheaded the international fight against apartheid. But that power was meaningless on Dec. 23, 1986, when Kaunda and his wife stood in State House and watche
- Canada Unveils New Marijuana Rules
- Associated Press - Wednesday July 4, 2001
- Tom Cohen, Associated Press Writer
- TORONTO (AP) - New regulations expanding the legal use of medical marijuana will allow people with terminal or debilitating illnesses to possess and cultivate pot, or designate someone to do it for them. But the Canadian Medical Association opposed the rules announced Wednesday, saying that too little is known about th
- Nigeria Healer Offers AIDS 'Cure'
- Associated Press - Monday, July 2, 2001
- Todd Pitman, Associated Press Writer
- LAGOS, Nigeria -- At the emergency section of a sprawling church on the outskirts of Lagos, more than two dozen people sit on wooden pews, holding placards proclaiming they re infected with HIV. The scene is rare in a country where talking about the virus is all but taboo, and open admission of infection can provoke de
- Fight Against AIDS Emphasizes Change
- Associated Press - Thursday June 28, 2001
- George Mwangi, Associated Press Writer
- MAGU, Tanzania (AP) - Taabu John got the message that is making the rounds of the bars in this Lake Victoria fishing town: Promiscuous sex can lead to AIDS, and a change in behavior can save your life. The 37-year-old single mother of two - a former bartender and prostitute - changed her life because of the Tanzania-
- U.N. AIDS Conference Ends
- Associated Press Writer - Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer
- UNITED NATIONS -- Buoyed by the success of a historic three-day U.N. summit, politicians, health experts and AIDS activists now face the challenge of putting to action their battle plan to halt the killer disease s relentless march across the globe. The 189-member General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Commitment
- Satcher Urges Respect on Sex Values
- Associated Press - Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON -- Taking on a sensitive issue, Surgeon General David Satcher urges Americans to respect diversity in sexual values and calls on parents, schools and community leaders to engage in honest, mature discussion about sexual issues. The wide-ranging report released Thursday says communities must provide lifelong
- Africa's AIDS Activists Skeptical
- Associated Press - Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Africa s AIDS fighters have heard it before: the promises of action, the unenforceable commitments, the self congratulations of Western officials proud even to be discussing the pandemic ravaging the world s poorest countries. So the conclusion of a historic U.N. summit on AIDS with the ad
- Globe to Wage War on AIDS
- Associated Press, Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- Buoyed by the success of a historic three-day U.N. summit, politicians, health experts and AIDS activists now face the challenge of putting into action their battle plan to halt the killer disease s relentless march across the globe. The 189-member General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Commitmen
- Satcher Calls for Sexual Awareness
- Associated Press - Thursday, June 28, 2001
- Laura Meckler, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON -- Surgeon General David Satcher called on parents, schools and community leaders Thursday to get past their nervousness about sex so they can do a better job preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In a far-reaching report, Satcher called for a mature and thoughtful discussion abo
- AIDS Grows Fastest in Eastern Europe; Specialists Warn of Possible Epidemic
- Associated Press - June 28, 2001
- NEW YORK -- Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, which already have the world s fastest-rising rates of new HIV/AIDS infections, are headed for a large-scale epidemic unless anti-AIDS programs go into full swing now, specialists on the region have warned. The numbers are still small compared with Africa, where 2
- Brazil Is Planning to Request License for AIDS Drug Viracept
- Associated Press - June 27, 2001
- NEW YORK -- Brazil continues to prepare to become the first country to issue a compulsory license for an AIDS drug in case Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Group doesn t slash the price of one of its medicines by 45%. Brazil and Roche have been negotiating the price since the beginning of the year, and Brazil is expect
- Bush, Mbeki Discuss AIDS in Africa
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Sonya Ross, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki again refused to link HIV with AIDS , even though he agreed that s what the scientists say. I don t think my personal belief is relevant to a scientific fact, he said Wednesday after being asked whether he thinks the HIV virus is the primary cause of AIDS. Mbeki
- Agreement Reached on AIDS Declaration
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Jonathon Ewing, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In the first universal approach to battling a disease, the United Nations has laid out an AIDS blueprint setting tough targets for reducing infection rates and protecting the rights of people with HIV/AIDS. Western nations were forced to back away from specifically naming the most vulnerable popul
- Program Aims to Keep Teens HIV Free
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Susanna Loof, Associated Press Writer
- ORANGE FARM, South Africa (AP) - The purple billboards along South Africa s dusty roads confront the stark fear of a generation experiencing the sexual confusion of puberty amid the AIDS pandemic. I had sex. Will I die? - Siphiwe, 14. The advertising campaign is part of the loveLife empire - television programs, radio
- HIV Victims Share Stories at Summit
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - David Brooks Arnold, a 65-year-old grandfather from Washington, D.C., and Josephine Chiturumani, a 42-year old mother of four from Zimbabwe , have more in common than they expected. They both work for the Red Cross, both lost partners to AIDS and both are HIV -positive. People from all walks o
- Pope Urges Fight Against AIDS
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II has urged those involved in the fight against AIDS to help young people develop what he called responsible maturity in their love lives. Vatican Radio on Wednesday said that was a highlight of a message the pontiff had sent to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan for this week s AIDS
- U.N. Adopts AIDS Battle Blueprint
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In the first global approach to battling a disease, the United Nations adopted an AIDS blueprint Wednesday setting tough targets for reducing infection rates and protecting the rights of people with the virus. Under pressure from Islamic countries, Western nations were forced to back away from spe
- House Panel OKs Foreign Aid Bill
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- Carolyn Skorneck, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel endorsed spending $15.2 billion in foreign aid next year, amid disputes over the size of funds to wage drug wars in South America, congressional meddling in foreign policy and President Bush s ban on aid to foreign pro-abortion groups. The $15.2 billion for fiscal 2002, which begins Oct.
- Maine AIDS Activist Dies
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 27, 2001
- PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Frances W. Peabody, a community leader who became Maine s best-known AIDS activist after losing her grandson to the disease, has died after a short illness. She was 98. Peabody was hospitalized over the weekend and died peacefully on Tuesday with her family by her side, friends said. Known as Fr
- Excerpts From U.N. AIDS Declaration
- Associated Press, Wednesday June 27, 2001
- At the national level: -By 2003, ensure the development and implementation of multisector national strategies and financing plans for combating HIV/AIDS that address the epidemic in forthright terms; confront stigma, silence and denial; address gender and age-based dimensions of the epidemic; eliminate discrimination a
- AIDS Group to Include Pfizer Chief
- Associated Press - Thursday June 21, 2001
- Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - Pfizer Inc. s top executive will be a member of the U.S. delegation to next week s U.N. General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS, a move that has raised hackles among activists. Hank McKinnell, Pfizer s chairman, president and chief executive, will be part of a group of about 50 conference delegates
- AIDS Epidemic Threatens East Europe, Former Soviet Union
- Associated Press - June 27, 2001
- NEW YORK (AP)--Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, which already have the world s fastest rising rates of new HIV/AIDS infections, are headed for a large-scale epidemic unless anti-AIDS programs go into full swing now, specialists on the region have warned. The numbers are still small compared with Africa, wher
- Minister: 600,000 in China Have AIDS
- Associated Press - Tuesday, June 26, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- More than 600,000 people in China are estimated to have the AIDS virus and the number is increasing by 30 percent annually, primarily because of an upsurge in infections among intravenous drug users, China s health minister says. While the prevalence of the HIV virus and AIDS is still low - just 0.5 p
- U.N. Deal Increases Africa AIDS Drugs
- Associated Press - Tuesday, June 26, 2001
- Matt Crenson, AP National Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- A year-old agreement between pharmaceutical companies and the United Nations has delivered lifesaving AIDS drugs to thousands of Africans, but extending treatment to the millions more who still need it will require much more help from abroad, delegates at a U.N. conference said. The greatest obstacle
- Women Afraid to Say No to Unsafe Sex
- Associated Press - Tuesday, June 26, 2001
- Mike Corder, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- Women in nations hardest hit by AIDS often are afraid of refusing unprotected sex, a factor in the spread of the killer disease, experts at a U.N. AIDS conference said. Nearly half of the world s 36 million people infected with HIV are women - and the number is growing. Women now make up 60 percent of
- African Leaders Speak at UN Summit
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- One after another, African leaders at the United Nations first global gathering on HIV/AIDS made emotional pleas for help Monday in ending the devastation wrought by the epidemic. Nigeria s president warned that entire populations face extinction. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, seeking $7-10 billion fo
- AIDS Is Rampant in Myanmar
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Steve Gutterman, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK -- Shunned by a repressive military junta and shut out by their own fearful communities, AIDS-stricken people in Myanmar are dying in numbers that researchers say may be more than 50 times higher than official figures. In a country where information is so tightly controlled that an unlicensed fax machine can l
- Delegate: AIDS Goal Too Ambitious
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
- NEW YORK -- The war chest to fight AIDS will fall dramatically short of the $7 to $10 billion target set by U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan, but the goal was overly ambitious, Pfizer s chairman, president and CEO said. Henry McKinnell, who is a U.S. delegate to the U.N. Special Session on AIDS, said Monday that even
- AIDS Persists As U.N. Summit Opens
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Gilbert Da Costa, Associated Press Writer
- ABUJA, Nigeria -- As world leaders talked about AIDS Monday at a U.N. summit in New York, Africans went on Monday with the ordeal of living - and dying - with it. As ever, short on treatment, and short on hope. AIDS will kill most of us in the next 10 or 15 years, said Dr. Ben Anyene, health commissioner in southeaster
- Somali Youths Campaign for AIDS
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Osman Hassan, Associated Press Writer
- MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Dozens of youths, protected by their own rifle-toting guards, braved conservative Somali society and armed militiamen on Monday to do something Somalis have never done before: attempt to raise public awareness about HIV/AIDS. Riding in 10 trucks draped with banners in Somali saying Save Your Life
- U.S. Withdraws WTO Patents Case
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Naomi Koppel, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA -- The United States has withdrawn a complaint with the World Trade Organization over a law used by Brazil to ensure cheap drugs to fight AIDS, a Brazilian trade negotiator said Monday. Jose Alfredo Graca Lima told reporters the two countries had come to an understanding over a law that requires owners of Braz
- US to Give More Money to Fight AIDS
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- UNITED NATIONS -- The United States will provide more money to a global fund to fight AIDS and will continue to lead the world in financing AIDS research, Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday told a U.N. conference drafting a blueprint to combat the killer disease. Decrying that it had taken 20 years to gather the
- U.N. AIDS Gathering Draws Thousands
- Associated Press - Monday, June 25, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations opens a three-day session on AIDS with a powerful symbol - a multicolored, patchwork quilt honoring the millions of lives lost to one of the worst epidemics in human history. The conference s 3,000 participants - health experts, politicians, scientists, AIDS activists and patients -
- Kenya Accused of Abandoning AIDS Orphans
- Associated Press - Sunday, June 24, 2001
- Andrew England, Associated Press Writer
- NAIROBI, Kenya -- A human rights group on Monday accused the Kenyan government of neglecting millions of children, many of them orphans, whose families have fallen victim to HIV/AIDS. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said the government was failing to take responsibility for children who are being forced out of sc
- AIDS Activists Oppose Drug Maker Role
- Associated Press - Sunday, June 24, 2001
- Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
- NEW YORK -- Thirteen months ago, the United Nations initiated a program to expand access to AIDS drugs in the world s developing countries. While the program has picked up steam, it has achieved negligible results. This week as thousands gather for the U.N. General Assembly Special Session aimed at mobilizing efforts t
- Hundreds March for AIDS Awareness
- Associated Press - Saturday, June 23, 2001
- Katherine Roth, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK -- Hundreds of AIDS activists demonstrated in pouring rain Saturday in a call for increased support for people with AIDS worldwide. Their march and rally were held to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly s first special session on the health crisis that has claimed more than 22 million victims and
- U.N. Holds Special Session on AIDS
- Associated Press - Saturday, June 23, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- Twenty years after the discovery of AIDS, the U.N. General Assembly is holding its first special session on a health crisis that has claimed over 22 million victims and left 36 million others facing a death sentence. Everyone has come to this late, said Stephen Lewis, the U.N. special envoy on HIV/AID
- Drug Company Loses Defamation Suit
- The Associated Press - Saturday, June 23, 2001
- NEW YORK -- One of the world s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers lost a defamation lawsuit for misusing a woman s photo in a brochure for an AIDS drug, prosecutors say. The woman sued Merck & Company and its New York advertising agency, Harrison & Star, for improperly using her photograph in a brochure for
- Health Care Eases AIDS Victims' Plight
- Associated Press - Friday June 22, 2001
- Susanna Loof, Associated Press Writer
- UMLAZI, South Africa (AP) - The visits from nurse Prim Zungu can t remedy the disaster AIDS has heaped on the Dlamini family. The comfort, advice and occasional pills she gives 23-year-old Numbolelo do little to stop the ache of poverty worsened by the illness. South Africa s AIDS policy calls for more home-based healt
- ABC Auctions Soap Opera Wardrobe
- Associated Press - Friday June 22, 2001
- NEW YORK (AP) - ABC Daytime is auctioning original gowns, costumes, and T-shirts from the eighth annual Nurses Ball on General Hospital and Port Charles to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The Nurses Ball is a gala event, woven into the storylines of the two soap operas, and is designed to raise
- U.N. Agency Adopts AIDS Code
- Associated Press - Friday June 22, 2001
- Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. labor agency Friday adopted a code to stop workplace discrimination against people infected with the AIDS virus, urging special attention to the vulnerability of women to the disease. The 32-page code of practice, approved unanimously by the governing body of the International Labor Organization,
- WTO to Work on Drug Patent Rules
- Associated Press - Friday June 22, 2001
- Clare Nullis, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA (AP) - The World Trade Organization will examine whether its rules protecting drug patents can become more flexible to address concerns by developing countries and health activists that the regulations prevent vital medicines reaching the poor. As a followup to a one-day conference on access to drugs, the WTO s
- Other Countries Seek AIDS Help
- Associated Press - Friday June 22, 2001
- Traci Carl, Associated Press Writer
- TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The AIDS pandemic is devastating Africa, and that s where most global aid and the cheaper drugs are going. Largely left out are people in Latin America like Addis Vitalia, a 29-year-old mother of two who is dying of AIDS and who cannot afford medicines that could control her disease.
- Study Traces Human Genetic Resistance
- Associated Press - Thursday June 21, 2001
- Paul Recer, AP Science Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP)- A gene mutation that arose thousands of years ago now protects hundreds of millions of people from severe malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that is the world s deadliest infection. Researchers report Friday in the journal Science that they have traced the natural evolution in Africa, Asia and the Med
- U.N. Welcomes Corporate AIDS Funds
- Associated Press - Thursday June 21, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Moves by corporations outside the pharmaceutical industry to get involved in the AIDS fight have been welcomed at the United Nations. But some activists wonder if the initiatives constitute good will - or just good public relations. This week, Coca-Cola and DaimlerChrysler announced AIDS-related p
- Study: Fighting AIDS May Cost $9B
- Associated Press - Thursday June 21, 2001
- Matt Crenson, AP National Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - The world s poorest countries will soon need $9.2 billion a year to deal with AIDS, a study concludes - $4.4 billion to treat people with the illness and $4.8 billion to prevent new infections. Half the money will be needed in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the report in Friday s issue of the journal
- Pfizer Exec Partaking in Conference
- Associated Press - Thursday June 21, 2001
- Theresa Agovino, AP Business Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - Pfizer Inc. s (NYSE:PFE - news) top executive will be a member of the U.S. delegation to next week s U.N. General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS , a move likely raise hackles among activists. Hank McKinnell, Pfizer s chairman, president and chief executive, will be part of a group of about 50 conf
- UN AIDS Campaign Wins Support, Money
- Associated Press - Wednesday, June 20, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. campaign to fight the AIDS epidemic will bring more than 3,000 government officials, activists and business leaders to the United Nations next week to back a global agenda to tackle the killer disease and spur support for a new fund to pay for it. Six months ago, the United Nations was worrie
- Poor Nations Want Lax Drug Rules
- Associate Press - Wednesday, June 20, 2001
- Jonathan Fowler, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA -- World trade rules protecting drug patents should be made more flexible because they hurt efforts to fight the AIDS epidemic, developing country negotiators at the World Trade Organization said Wednesday. The rules should not be allowed to undermine the legitimate right of WTO members to formulate their own pu
- UNAIDS Announces Link With Coca-Cola
- The Associated Press - Wednesday, June 20, 2001
- GENEVA -- The U.N. agency combatting AIDS announced Wednesday that the Coca-Cola Co. has joined the battle against the disease in Africa, deploying its vast distribution system to help. No dollar value was placed on the offer. The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation will provide help from its marketing and distribution system
- U.N. Session to Tackle AIDS Epidemic
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 20, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The first high-level U.N. meeting to tackle the global AIDS epidemic will bring representatives of 180 countries to New York next week, including 24 leaders - the vast majority from Africa, which has been hardest-hit by the killer disease. It s indicative of the priority that African nations are a
- Coca-Cola to Help Africa AIDS Fight
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 20, 2001
- Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA (AP) - The Coca-Cola Co. is joining DaimlerChrysler and other multinational corporations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa, offering to use Coke trucks to deliver everything from condoms to AIDS prevention fliers in its effort to combat the deadly disease. The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, working with the
- AIDS superstrain feared from misuse
- Associated Press - June 19, 2001
- Alexandra Zavis
- ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Recent deals with major pharmaceutical companies for cheaper AIDS drugs stand to increase the number of patients able to get treatment in Africa, home to 26.5 million of the 37 million people in the world living with HIV. But even at reduced prices, doctors and researchers in Ivory Coast say few
- Gates Donates $100M to AIDS Fund
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 19, 2001
- Constant Brand, Associated Press Writer
- BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday donated $100 million to an international health fund to fight AIDS and called on European Union nations and other countries to make further contributions. A dramatic increase in funding is necessary and required to fight the pandemic, said found
- DaimlerChrysler to Give AIDS Drugs
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 19, 2001
- Hans Greimel, AP Business Writer
- FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Auto giant DaimlerChrysler said Tuesday it will provide free anti-AIDS drugs to help its South African employees and their families combat the disease. Absenteeism and sick days are always an issue, company spokeswoman Annelise van der Laan said from Pretoria, South Africa. Based on the in
- Drug Cos., Activists Clash on Patents
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 19, 2001
- Jonathon Fowler, Associated Press Writer
- GENEVA (AP) - The pharmaceutical industry and health activists clashed over drug patent rules Tuesday ahead of a meeting at the World Trade Organization to discuss global regulations. WTO rules treat patented drugs like CDs or Barbie dolls, said Ellen t Hoen, a spokeswoman for the drug access initiative of aid agency M
- In Africa, HIV Treatment Erratic
- Associated Press - Monday June 18, 2001
- Alexandra Zavis, Associated Press Writer
- ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Every month, Edmond Adjobi scrimps, borrows and begs for the $14 he needs for the cut-rate HIV drugs that keep him healthy. But sometimes he just can t afford them. When I don t have the means to take my medicine, I am very afraid that one day something awful will happen to me, says Adjobi,
- Soweto Uprising Remembered
- Associated Press - Saturday June 16, 2001
- Susanna Loof, Associated Press Writer
- SOWETO, South Africa (AP) - Hundreds of singing and dancing young South Africans joined President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday as he retraced the steps of a protest march thousands of Soweto schoolchildren staged 25 years ago. The march, known as the Soweto uprising, became a turning point in South Africa s history. It brou
- Diplomats Discuss AIDS Pandemic
- Associated Press - Friday June 15, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Unaccustomed to talking frankly about homosexuality and prostitution, diplomats from over 100 countries have found themselves immersed in roiling negotiations over what to do about the AIDS pandemic. Many Muslim countries that view homosexuality as a sin punishable by death do not want men who hav
- Excerpts of U.N. AIDS Draft Document
- Associated Press - Friday June 15, 2001
- The Associated Press
- Following is a look at the disputed language in a draft declaration to be adopted at the June 25-27 U.N. Special Session on AIDS . The text was obtained by The Associated Press. REDUCING VULNERABILITY The draft document states: - By 2003, develop and or strengthen national strategies, policies and programs, supported b
- FTC Settles Internet Fraud Charges
- Associated Press - Thursday June 14, 2001
- David Ho, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission has settled fraud charges against five companies that used the Internet to sell miracle cures for everything from AIDS to cancer. The companies must stop their false advertising and, in some cases, repay their customers and pay fines to the government, the FTC said Thursda
- Bank Leader Calls for Africa Aid
- Associated Press - Thursday June 14, 2001
- Gerald Nadler, Associated Press Writer
- NEW YORK (AP) - Africa needs billions of dollars in aid to help a generation of forward-thinking leaders pull their countries from a downward spiral of poverty and disease, the World Bank president said Thursday. James Wolfensohn told the Council of Foreign Relations that a group of leaders in sub-Saharan Africa don t
- Internet Cos. Settling Fraud Charges
- Associated Press - Thursday June 14, 2001
- David Ho, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Five companies that offered products on the Internet claiming to cure everything from AIDS to cancer have agreed to settle federal fraud charges, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. The agency filed charges against a sixth company in federal court June 4. The other five must stop their false a
- Eastern Europe Hit Hard by AIDS
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 13, 2001
- Beata Pasek, Associated Press Writer
- WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics are being overwhelmed by a surge in AIDS cases, an organizer of a regional conference on fighting the disease said Wednesday. The countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are helpless toward AIDS. Some governments pretend the problem does not exist; o
- Mbeki Heckled by AIDS Activists
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 13, 2001
- GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - British protesters shouting AIDS is the new apartheid heckled visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has rejected calls for his government to provide AIDS drugs to patients. A few activists waved banners reading The Right to Life: The Right to Treatment and Wake up - HIV Equals AIDS
- Group Tries for AIDS Drugs in Africa
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 12, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (AP) - Grace was coughing up blood. Her feet were numb. Her head pounded. Her mouth was full of sores. Her throat burned with a choking infection. Ulcers riddled her stomach. She was thin and bedridden and certain she was about to die. That was two weeks ago - before the AIDS medicine. Now
- Thompson Plans Review of AIDS Funds
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 12, 2001
- Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The Health and Human Services Department will review the $10.2 billion it spends on AIDS programs, Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday. A panel led by deputy secretary Claude Allen will survey the programs to find out what s working and how we can best use the dollars to do the job better, Thompson
- Kenya to Allow Cheaper AIDS Drugs
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 12, 2001
- Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press Writer
- NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya s parliament unanimously passed a law Tuesday that would allow the government to suspend patent rights in times of emergency, clearing the way for cheaper, generic AIDS drugs in the East African nation. Opposition lawmakers joined with Cabinet ministers in supporting the Industrial Propertie
- Canada to Test Immigrants for AIDS
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 12, 2001
- OTTAWA (AP) - Canada will begin testing all immigrants and people seeking refugee status for the AIDS virus, Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan said Tuesday. A positive result would not mean automatic exclusion from Canada, Caplan said. Each case would be assessed individually, she said, with one factor in the decision
- Pfizer: Poor Need Access to Drugs
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 12, 2001
- Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press Writer
- KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Pharmaceutical companies must change their way of doing business to ensure that poor countries have access to essential AIDS drugs, the president of the world s largest drug company told The Associated Press. Henry McKinnell, chief executive of Pfizer Corp. and
- Uganda Gets AIDS Training Center
- Associated Press - Monday June 11, 2001
- Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press Writer
- KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Experts on AIDS from North America and Uganda launched a training center for African doctors Monday, seeking to bolster delivery of new treatments for patients on the continent hit hardest by the disease. Financed by Pfizer Corp., the Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention in Afri
- GlaxoSmithKline Expands Price Cuts
- Associated Press - Monday June 11, 2001
- LONDON (AP) - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline expanded its offer of reduced prices for HIV /AIDS and anti-malarial drugs Monday to 63 developing countries, including all of sub-Saharan Africa. The preferential pricing policy, previously given on a case-by-case basis, was widened to include additional AIDS-fighting
- Young AIDS Activist Mourned
- Associated Press - Saturday June 9, 2001
- Susanna Loof, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Mourners on Saturday packed the funeral of Nkosi Johnson, a 12-year-old AIDS activist who died last week, singing and dancing in tribute to the boy and his campaign to win acceptance for those with the disease. Seven television cameras vied for footage of the small white-and-gold coffi
- Swiss Insurer Gives to UN AIDS Fund
- Associated Press - Friday June 8, 2001
- WINTERTHUR, Switzerland (AP) - Winterthur Insurance became the first corporate donor to a new U.N. fund to fight AIDS when it announced a $1 million donation Friday. Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint U.N. Program on HIV /AIDS, welcomed the Swiss insurer s gift. We commend Winterthur for being the first pr
- Black Leaders Issue AIDS Alert
- Associated Press - Friday June 8, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA (AP) - Black leaders urged the Bush administration Friday to step up efforts to slow the alarming spread of AIDS among minorities, calling soaring infection rates a national emergency. The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS concluded a two-day conference by announcing a comprehensive proposal that inc
- Increased AIDS Spending Proposed
- Associated Press - Thursday June 7, 2001
- Ananda Shorey, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is committed to combating the AIDS epidemic in Africa but other countries also must contribute resources, the government s top foreign aid official told lawmakers Thursday. We re funding more money than the entire world, said Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for Inter
- 2M People Living With HIV/AIDS
- Associated Press - Thursday June 7, 2001
- Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - With millions of people worldwide living with AIDS and the HIV virus, a new U.N. chart paints a grim picture of the epidemic spreading not only through Africa, but also through parts of Asia and Latin America. Five countries have at least 2 million people each living with AIDS or the HIV virus -
- Kenyans Open Debate on AIDS Drugs
- Associated Press - Thursday June 7, 2001
- Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press Writer
- NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The fight for cheaper AIDS drugs moved to Kenya s parliament Thursday with the introduction of a bill that would allow the suspension of patents in order to gain access to generic drugs. Key members of parliament received a petition Thursday signed by 50,000 Kenyans for the unfettered passage of t
- S.Africa Child AIDS Activist Mourned
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 6, 2001
- Will Morris, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Hundreds of mourners, many weeping uncontrollably, paid tribute Wednesday to Nkosi Johnson, who championed the rights of child AIDS victims before succumbing to the disease at age 12. AIDS activists, entertainers and dozens of children filled Central Methodist Church for a memorial ser
- Pfizer Expands Free AIDS Drug Plan
- Associated Press - Wednesday June 6, 2001
- Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. announced Wednesday it will expand its free distribution of a drug for AIDS patients in 50 of the world s least developed countries. The drug, Diflucan, is already being distributed free in South Africa as a treatment for cryptococca
- AIDS Activists Decry Names Proposal
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 5, 2001
- Timothy D. May, Associated Press Writer
- HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A regulation that would require Pennsylvanians who test positive for the AIDS virus to be listed by name in a state database would discourage thousands of people from being tested because of confidentiality concerns, activists said Monday. Members of AIDS organizations joined a half-dozen state l
- AIDS Research Pioneer Reflects
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 5, 2001
- Andrew Bridges, AP Science Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - Twenty years ago, Dr. Michael Gottlieb sent a researcher to roam a wing of the UCLA Medical Center and scout for interesting immunological cases. Bring back something interesting to discuss, Gottlieb told him. The researcher did, returning with word that a young gay man had a low white blood cell cou
- Judge Won't Let Thai Boy Return
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 5, 2001
- Robert Jablon, Associated Press Writer
- LOS ANGELES (AP) - An AIDS-stricken Thai boy who was used as a decoy in an immigrant smuggling scheme cannot be returned home because it would be ``a death sentence, a federal judge said. Three-year-old Phanupong Khaisri should stay in the United States until he turns 18 and can make his own decision, Judge Dickran Tev
- U.S. Pledges Support to AIDS FightHome
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 5, 2001
- Anjetta McQueen, Associated Press Writer
- WASHINGTON (AP) - The government will give substantial amounts of money to local religious, community and government groups that fight AIDS, officials said Tuesday. It was 20 years to the day after federal researchers noted the first cases of the deadly disease. The Bush administration has been criticized for focusing
- U.N. Discusses 20 Years of AIDS
- Associated Press - Tuesday June 5, 2001
- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer
- CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Though more than 22 million people have died of AIDS and 36 million others are infected with HIV , the pandemic is still in its early stages, the United Nations top AIDS fighter said Tuesday as he marked 20 years since the first official report of AIDS. If the world does not act decis
- New Procedure May Help Blood Supply
- Associated Press - Monday, June 4, 2001
- Karen A. Davis, Associated Press Writer
- SAN FRANCISCO -- A key part of the nation s blood supply could be made safe from viruses, bacteria and parasites with the use of a chemical activated by ultraviolet light, a biotech company said Monday. Cerus Corp. said it has performed hundreds of successful tests on blood products using a process it calls Helinx, whi
- Religion, Morals Stall AIDS Progress
- Associated Press - Monday, June 4, 2001
- Robin Mcdowell, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS -- Religious beliefs and moral values have stalled efforts to come up with a plan that would set tough new targets to combat AIDS worldwide, officials involved in negotiations said Monday. Three weeks before a draft is scheduled to go before the U.N. General Assembly, delegates from over 100 countries ha
- Bono, White House Talk Debt, AIDS
- Associated Press - Saturday June 2, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Bono took a break from his band s Elevation tour to stop at the White House and speak with a presidential adviser about AIDS in Africa and the debt of the world s poorest countries. The lead singer of the Irish rock band U2 praised congressional support for efforts to cancel debts of poor countries ar
- Young AIDS Activist Dies at 12
- Associated Press - Friday June 1, 2001
- Susanna Loof, Associated Press Writer
- JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Nkosi Johnson, a boy who was born with HIV and became an outspoken champion of others infected with the AIDS virus, died Friday of the disease he battled for all 12 of his years. Nkosi was praised for his openness about his infection in a country where people suspected of carrying the
- Lewis Appointed As UN AIDS Envoy
- Associated Press - Friday June 1, 2001
- Miranda Leitsinger, Associated Press Writer
- UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A veteran Canadian diplomat and outspoken critic of the international community s response to the AIDS crisis was appointed Friday as special U.N. envoy for Africa on HIV and AIDS. Stephen Lewis, a former deputy director of UNICEF in the mid-1990s and a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nat
- AIDS' 20th year brings new concern over young gays, bisexuals
- Associated Press - May 31, 2001
- ATLANTA -- Gay men too young to remember the earliest reports of AIDS are now spreading the disease at alarming rates that remind health officials of the explosive first years of the epidemic. A six-city government survey released Thursday shows 4.4 percent of gay and bisexual men 23 to 29 years old are newly infected
- HIV Testing Mandatory for Americans
- Associated Press - Thursday May 31, 2001
- WASHINGTON (AP) - As it prepares to end HIV testing of foreign applicants for employment at U.S. embassies, the State Department is acknowledging that such screening is required for candidates for the U.S. career diplomatic service. Spokesman Richard Boucher said Thursday the difference is that U.S. foreign service off
- CDC: Young Gay Men Spreading AIDS
- Associated Press - Thursday, May 31, 2001
- Erin McClam, Associated Press Writer
- ATLANTA -- Gay men too young to remember the earliest reports of AIDS are now spreading the disease at alarming rates that remind health officials of the explosive first years of the epidemic. A government survey released Thursday shows 4.4 percent of gay and bisexual men ages 23 to 29 are newly infected each year with
- Survey of Gay, Lesbian Students
- Associated Press - Thursday, May 31, 2001
- WASHINGTON -- A survey of gay and lesbian high school students suggests they endure less violence and confrontation in schools where students receive gay-sensitive AIDS instruction. The survey, appearing Friday in the American Journal of Public Health, also found that gay, lesbian and bisexual students in schools witho
- AIDS Activist Blocked From US Trip
- Associated Press - Thursday, May 31, 2001
- Joe McDonald, Associated Press Writer
- BEIJING -- A retired Chinese physician who publicized the dangers of AIDS said Thursday that health officials have blocked her from traveling to the United States to accept an award for her work. Dr. Gao Yaojie, 74, said health officials accused her of helping anti- China forces when she publicized
- Embassies to End HIV Screening
- Associated Press - Wednesday, May 30, 2001
- WASHINGTON -- The United States is preparing to end all HIV screening of foreign personnel hired at U.S. diplomatic posts. While testing was not a condition of employment at the 250 American missions, heads of U.S. embassies and consulates could decide whether to go ahead with tests. A State Department spokesman, P
- EU Wants Drug Company Cooperation
- The Associated Press - Wednesday, May 30, 2001
- BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union urged major pharmaceutical companies on Wednesday to better coordinate their efforts to offer cheaper drugs to fight AIDS and other major diseases in Africa. It s important to give a greater coherence to the companies actions, said EU spokesman Anthony Gooch. There is no formal
- State Dept. May End HIV Screening
- Associated Press - Tuesday, May 29, 2001
- WASHINGTON -- The State Department is reviewing a policy that allows more than 200 U.S. diplomatic facilities to carry out HIV