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Access to medicines and treatment
News24 | 10 February 2012
The South African government has announced a joint venture to reduce the cost of anti-retroviral drugs with a Swiss company, by manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in South Africa.
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Circumcision
IRIN Plus News | 10 February 2012
The World Health Organization endorsed
the procedure as an HIV-prevention measure in 2007, but implementation
of a large-scale male circumcision programme in Malawi has been
controversial in the conservative country. The campaign hopes to circumcise more than 250,000 men by 2015;
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Access to medicines and treatment
The Independent | 10 February 2012
The cheap supply of antiretroviral drugs to people with Aids across the world
could be choked by an "intellectual property" deal, which the European Union
will today demand at a high-level international summit, Aids campaigners
say.
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Access to medicines and treatment
The Independent | 10 February 2012
In a high-level summit in Delhi today officials from the EU will try to force
India into accepting restrictions on its generic medicine industry that would
mean delays of up to 10 years in delivery of generic versions of new, improved
medicines and up to 15 years in the case of paediatric versions of the same
drugs. The British Government must step in and stop the EU attack. The UK has a proud
record on international development and access to medicines
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Reuters India (blog) | 10 February 2012
The insurance regulator recently floated a proposal which mandates all health insurance providers to put an underwriting policy in place for covering people with HIV or those working closely with HIV+ persons, such as doctors and nurses.
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Neurological and cognitive problems
Bloomberg | 09 February 2012
NeurogesX Inc. (NGSX), a specialty drugmaker that has never reported an annual profit, failed to win the backing of a US advisory panel for its patch to relieve pain nerve damage commonly associated with HIV.
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Access to medicines and treatment
Stop AIDS Campaign | 09 February 2012
Activists massed outside the European Commission offices in London today to
demand Europe stops its attack on India’s generic medicine industry. AIDS and
public health activists say the EC is using Free Trade Agreement negotiations to
force India to accept terms that would amount to Europe ‘closing down the
pharmacy of the world’.
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Access to medicines and treatment
Key Correspondents | 09 February 2012
Quality Chemicals, a Ugandan based pharmaceutical company, will next month start producing the anti-retroviral drug, Tenofovir. go →
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Bad science and bogus treatments
AllAfrica | 09 February 2012
A month after two ladies were arrested for selling fake ARVs, three people are in custody for allegedly selling drugs that were phased out of the country under the World Health Organisation's directive.
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Sexually transmitted infections
AIDSMeds | 09 February 2012
The last line of defense against gonorrhea is losing its effectiveness against the gonorrhea, according to a new article published February 9 in the The New England Journal of Medicine.
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