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  • Drug resistant new infections could reach one in seven by 2005

    Michael Carter | 06 September 2001

    Transmission of drug resistant HIV will not become a major public health problem, according to a US study published in this month's Nature Medicine, but could affect one in seven ...

  • Pharma companies agree further price cuts as generics challenge

    Michael Carter | 06 September 2001

    Two major drug companies have agreed price cuts which will see cheaper HIV treatments available in Brazil and the Caribbean. Under pressure from the Brazilian government, Swiss based Hoffman-La Roche, ...

  • Private sector plans treatment access for workers

    Michael Carter | 06 September 2001

    Multi-national corporations including Coca-Cola, Shell Oil and Puma are to initiate anti-HIV programmes for their employees in South Africa. The promise of resources comes as a report calls for "much ...

  • Harmless hepatitis G slows HIV disease

    Keith Alcorn | 06 September 2001

    An apparently harmless hepatitis virus appears to slow HIV disease progression dramatically, according to two studies published in this week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It is ...

  • New British treatment guidelines finalised

    Anon | 06 September 2001

    The 2001 update of the British HIV Association guidelines are now available following a three month consultation period. ]]> ...

  • AIDS Vaccine 2001 opens in Philadelphia

    Julian Meldrum | 05 September 2001

    More than 1,000 people have registered to attend the AIDS Vaccine 2001 conference which opened on Wednesday 5 September, in Philadelphia. The conference is primarily about preventive vaccines although, on Saturday ...

  • Antiretroviral therapy in Africa: what is needed?

    Keith Alcorn | 03 August 2001

    Combination therapy is feasible in resource poor countries, and models already exist for its implementation, according to two articles from international expert groups published in today's edition of The Lancet. In ...

  • Ring fencing of HIV treatment budgets to end

    Keith Alcorn | 31 July 2001

    An English national strategy on HIV, framed as part of a National Health Service response to sexual health needs, was launched for public consultation on Friday 27 July 2001 in ...

  • Nigeria plans large scale access to generic drugs

    Keith Alcorn | 31 July 2001

    The Nigerian government will start providing antiretroviral treatment to 15,000 individuals already diagnosed with AIDS in September after an agreement with the Indian antiretroviral manufacturer CIPLA for provision of a ...

  • European Union: no drug advertising planned

    Keith Alcorn | 31 July 2001

    The European Commission has warned that despite plans to permit direct communication with consumers by pharmaceutical companies, direct to consumer advertising of the sort allowed in the United States will ...

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hiv & aids news selected from other sources

  • Money, benefits and housing
    Welfare reform risk penalising disabled people
    Disability Alliance | 12 November 2010

    Disability Alliance welcomes simplification of the benefits system (through the universal credit) and genuine efforts to support disabled people into work, but they have significant concerns that many disabled people will be affected by the harsher elements of reform.

  • Employment
    Chinese court rules against HIV discrimination lawsuit
    China Labour Bulletin | 12 November 2010

    A court has ruled against a college graduate who had filed what is believed to be China’s first HIV employment discrimination lawsuit.

  • Tuberculosis and HIV
    Launch of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Control report 2010
    WHO | 12 November 2010

    The World Health Organizaton today issued its most comprehensive report ever on the progress being made in combating the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.

  • Kenya
    Kenya: Firms Bear Heavy Medical Costs As Staff Hide HIV Status
    AllAfrica | 12 November 2010

    Companies are incurring higher medical costs on employees who do not disclose their HIV/Aids status, employers said on Thursday, turning the spotlight to an emotive subject at workplace.

  • Epidemiology
    AIDS Drugs – For Profit Or Not?
    Forbes | 11 November 2010

    Not too long ago – as recently as the late 1990s– it was taboo in international development circles to even mention market forces when discussing pharmaceuticals for poor countries.

  • Money, benefits and housing
    UK: Benefits system overhaul 'to make work pay'
    BBC | 11 November 2010

    Incapacity benefits will be replaced by the single universal payment, but Disability Living Allowance not included in the reform.

  • Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
    Electronic health records raise difficult issues of who sees what, and when
    Sydney Morning Herald | 11 November 2010

    Would you want your dentist to know you have haemorrhoids or your optometrist to be aware of your HIV status? Questions such as this are at the heart of any discussion of electronic health records, something that could affect all of us very soon.

  • Yemen patients battle HIV stigma
    Al Jazeera / You Tube | 11 November 2010

    Many patients suffering from HIV in Yemen are reluctant to go public and talk about the virus in one of the most conservative societies in the world. Often they are crippled by a fear of repercussions, stigma and social rejection.

  • China and Hong Kong
    China Aids group announces closure after tax authority pressure
    The Guardian | 11 November 2010

    Beijing Loving Source, founded by jailed activist Hu Jia, appears to be the latest casualty of official suspicion and harassment

  • Microbicides
    What do the CAPRISA findings mean for rectal microbicides?
    Positively Aware | 11 November 2010

    There is now a very clear line delineating a before and an after in terms of HIV prevention history. There is a before CAPRISA, and an after CAPRISA—and the world as we know it will never be the same.

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