Archive for the ‘HIV / AIDS’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
New Mexico's Department of Health recently added three antiretroviral drugs to its AIDS Drug Assistance Program, the AP/Las Cruces Sun-News reports. The health department now provides 77 medications to 426 people through its ADAP, which has been in operation for at least 12 years, according to health officials. All of ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Two advocates have received the inaugural Omololu Falobi Award for Excellence in HIV Prevention Research Community Advocacy. The awards honor the late Omololu Falobi, a long-time HIV advocate and journalist who founded Journalists Against AIDS in Nigeria, was an instrumental pioneer member of the Nigerian Treatment Access Movement, and co-founded ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
During a visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, on Wednesday, Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda launched a $20 million program aimed at reducing the spread of HIV among young people in the country, AFP/Google.com reports (AFP/Google.com, 2/20).
Kuroda met with members of the Youth Advisory Group to discuss strategies to implement the ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Antiretroviral drugs are becoming a "growing profit center" for the pharmaceutical industry as treatment for HIV-positive people worldwide improves, the Los Angeles Times reports.
According to the Times, sales of antiretrovirals for Gilead Sciences, which sells antiretrovirals to about one half of all HIV-positive people taking drugs nationwide, reached $3.14 billion ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
In response to significantly different proposals by President Bush and Congress for the legislation to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the successful five-year-old US global AIDS program, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) (http://www.aidshealth.org) unveils a new print ad campaign to urge Congress to keep PEPFAR's funding and ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
A delegation from India's Coalition of AIDS Treatment Access (CATA), a diverse group of civil society partners who engage the collective advocacy interests of all the participating members towards better HIV/AIDS treatment, efficient treatment facilities and efficacy in treatment provision for people living with HIV/AIDS throughout India, met on Friday ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Several newspapers have published editorials and opinion pieces in response to President Bush's five-country tour of Africa in part to highlight programs funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President's Malaria Initiative. Summaries appear below.
Editorials
* Chicago Sun-Times: Bush has an "indisputable achievement ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Health officials from nine Asian countries on Wednesday met in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to discuss strategies for curbing the spread of tuberculosis among people living with HIV/AIDS in the region, DPA/Earth Times reports. At the meeting, representatives from Cambodia, China, Fiji, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Vietnam ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed former French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy as special adviser on innovative financing for the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, U.N. deputy spokesperson Marie Okabe announced Tuesday, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports (AP/International Herald Tribune, 2/20). Because "official development assistance is still insufficient to achieve" ...
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