2001
- WHO to Unveil 14-Year World Health Strategy
- Newsday - December 20, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- The World Health Organization will unveil a dramatic plan today that economists say will save more than 11 million lives by 2015 at a cost of roughly $1.1 trillion. By 2020, they say, the approach would save 8 million lives every year. The seemingly costly package of health interventions would end up fueling broad econ
- Cocktail Hangover / Drug-resistant HIV on rise as medicines misused
- Newsday - December 18, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Widespread misuse of anti-HIV drugs has led to drug resistance in at least half the population under treatment for the disease in the United States , scientists are reporting today. Most striking, researchers said, is the demographic breakdown of drug resistance. Contrary to forecasts made in 1996 when combination drug
- Report Shows Surges of HIV / UN: 40 million people now infected
- Newsday - November 29, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Though the events of Sept. 11 diverted global attention from the pandemic, HIV has ignited in new regions and now infects 40 million people. In its annual state-of-the-world report released yesterday, the United Nations AIDS Programme issued new estimates of the scope of the pandemic, highlighting concern about surges
- America's Ordeal: A Push to Cut Cost of AIDS Drugs: Leaders of 60 poor nations, activists try to get discount versions made
- Newsday - November 9, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Angry that the Bush administration was willing to force price reductions for Bayer s anti-anthrax treatment, Cipro, but unwilling to exercise similar clout to reduce the cost of AIDS drugs, the leaders of 60 poor nations teamed with activists worldwide to challenge the World Trade Organization meeting today in Doha,
- Unraveling Mysteries of Flus Dangers / Scientists build viruses, delve into 1918 pandemic
- Newsday - September 7, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Scientists have discovered that a minuscule mutation in one gene makes the influenza virus far more dangerous and pathogenic. Using a revolutionary technique, University of Wisconsin researchers also have managed to build and manipulate their own flu viruses. And another research team from Australian National Universit
- Skeptical About AIDS Vaccine / Testing method questioned
- Newsday - September 5, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Even as scientists searching for an AIDS vaccine convene today in Philadelphia, many leading researchers warn that newfound optimism in the field may rest on rocky, even dangerously misleading, science. The optimism stems from three alleged breakthrough vaccines announced over the last year, and a fourth to be unveiled
- Officials' Dilemma in AIDS Fight / Treatments vs. concerns of spread
- Newsday - August 16, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspondent
- Atlanta - Health professionals hoping to slow the American AIDS epidemic find themselves at a crossroads, at which the treatments that allow individuals with HIV to live longer also raise enormous challenges for preventing further spread of the virus. We are at a transition point in HIV prevention in so many ways, Dr.
- Oral Sex Poses Low HIV Risk / Study fails to find any infected people
- Newsday - August 15, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspondent
- Atlanta - Oral sex poses an extremely low risk of HIV infection, according to a study released yesterday at the second National HIV Prevention Conference here. Kimberly Page Schafer and her colleagues at the University of California at San Francisco have reached that conclusion after two years of searching for someone
- Vocal Critics at AIDS Chiefs Debut / Faces skeptics at HIV conference
- Newsday - August 15, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspondent
- Atlanta - Scott Evertz, director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, confronted an openly skeptical audience yesterday in the first public speech of his four-month tenure. Evertz, unofficially known as White House AIDS czar, was interrupted repeatedly as he addressed the Second National HIV Prevention Co
- Winning the War / But Queens, SI need to help in HIV battle, experts say
- Newsday - Auguust 14, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspodent
- Atlanta - New York City is on the verge of further reducing the spread of HIV between drug users through needle-exchange programs, with only Queens and Staten Island standing in the way, experts are expected to announce here today. The needle-exchange programs, permitted under New York State law since 1992 and implemen
- UN OKs Global AIDS Action Plan / Toned-down pact has among goals a 25% cut in HIV in young adults
- Newsday - June 28, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspondent
- United Nations-The UN General Assembly last night endorsed a 103- point global plan of action against AIDS. Despite vigorous debate and controversy, the nations of the world agreed to a remarkably detailed document that sets timetables for achievement of AIDS control goals, the most ambitious of which is a 25 percent r
- Arguments, Then Agreement / Consensus on AIDS accord reached at UN
- Newsday - June 27, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- United Nations-After weeks of heated backroom debate culminating in an angry confrontation that nearly sank the UN General Assembly s attempt to reach consensus on how to tackle the AIDS pandemic, an agreement was reached last night. The draft declaration will be subject to open debate and a final vote today, but the m
- UN Session on AIDS Faces Hurdle / Muslim nations balk at language on gays
- Newsday - June 26, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Correspondent
- United Nations-Called to deal with the gravity of the global HIV crisis, the UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS instead yesterday was consumed by debate over homosexuality. The draft AIDS resolution, favored by the UNAIDS Programme and all UN agencies, came under attack from the Arab League and other Muslim na
- AIDS AT 20 / General Assembly Gathers On AIDS / UN hopes to create global plan of action
- Newsday - June 24, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Political leaders, scientists, activists, media members and humanitarian relief experts are pouring into New York City today to attend what may be the largest United Nations gathering ever staged. The subject is AIDS. It is the first time in the history of the United Nations that the General Assembly has convened to di
- AIDS-Defeat Cost Put at $9.2B a Year
- Newsday - June 22, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Conquering the AIDS pandemic would cost about $9.2 billion a year starting in 2005, with roughly half of that money spent on treatment, according to a report in today s issue of the journal Science. A team of scientists and economists, working at the behest of the United Nations AIDS Programme in Geneva, has developed
- AIDS AT 20: Prevention as a Priority - Many countries lack even basic resources for slowing spread of HIV
- Newsday - June 19, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Two decades into the AIDS crisis, a sense of urgency has emerged. The toll in the countries of Africa has at last brought a halt to business as usual. Much of the world s political and scientific leadership are in seeming unison, calling for a level of funding sufficient, at least theoretically, to bring the pandemic t
- Calling for a Global Solution: AIDS fund poses worldwide challenge
- Newsday - June 17, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Two decades into the AIDS crisis, a sense of urgency has emerged. The toll in the countries of Africa has at last brought a halt to business as usual. Much of the world s political and scientific leadership are in seeming unison, calling for a level of funding sufficient, at least theoretically, to bring the pandemic t
- $700M Bill Would Fight World Disease
- Newsday - June 14, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- A bill authorizing $700 million over the next two years to combat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in poor countries was introduced yesterday by a bipartisan quartet of senators. The International Infectious Diseases Control Act calls for $200 million for next year and another $500 million for 2003, to be placed in a glob
- Pfizer to Give Poor Nations AIDS Drug
- Newsday - June 7, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- New York City-based Pfizer Inc. announced yesterday that it will give its life-prolonging drug fluconazole free to 55 poor nations and assist in drug delivery and development of an infrastructure and staff to treat patients in five of those countries. At a news conference at United Nations headquarters, Pfizer chief ex
- Immune Cell Deaths Still a Stubborn Puzzle
- Newsday - Tuesday, June 6, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- TWO YEARS BEFORE the virus that causes AIDS was discovered, physicians in the United States and Europe realized that the defining symptom of the mysterious new disease was the loss of a specific immune system cell population, called CD4 cells. Twenty years later scientists still don t know what kills the cells. And its
- Following Trail Of the Monkeys
- Newsday, Tuesday, June 5, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- FOR AT LEAST 17 years it has been known that the epidemic form of HIV has less deadly, close cousins, found in people, apes and monkeys. What is still not known is why these viruses impacts are less devastating. Somewhere in the solution of that puzzle, scientists insist, lie clues that could be vital to the developmen
- Back To BASICS
- Newsday - Tuesday, June 5, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- WE DESPERATELY need a vaccine for AIDS, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher said last week, and we must move more aggressively in that direction. On this, the 20th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, forecasters predict that without an effective HIV vaccine, within 20 years the pandemic will be killing 6,427,000 Afri
- AIDS AT 20: Sisyphean Search: Science no closer than ever to a cure for AIDS
- Newsday - June 3, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Three months ago, making his first public comments on the global AIDS pandemic, President George W. Bush said his administration s primary goal is to find a cure for this disease -- a feat thought by scientists today to be all but impossible within the boundaries of contemporary biological science. The president s comm
- AIDS AT 20 / An Evolving Epidemic / Scientists fear AIDS' future
- Newsday - May 31, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Today, with the AIDS epidemic 20 years old, about 37 million people are suffering from various stages of HIV-induced immune system problems. Twenty years into the future, according to some forecasts, the pool of human beings living with AIDS-weakened immune systems could well exceed 200 million. And that has some biolo
- AIDS AT 20: Virus Saps Economic Strength, Too - Spread of HIV in poor nations intricately linked to development
- Newsday - May 30, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Economics is driving the mission of the leader of global health, Gro Harlem Brundtland, because, she says, money is at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway , was named director general of the World Health Organization a year and a half ago. Since then, she has cornered minis
- AIDS AT 20: An Angry Voice On Front Lines
- Newsday - May 30, 2001
- Laurie Garrett and Curtis L. Taylor, Staff Writers
- Nobody has a sense of urgency about this plague, Larry Kramer, the Tony Award-winning playwright and AIDS activist, said in an interview. And that s been the problem from Day One! Don t tell Kramer the American AIDS epidemic is under control or a declining problem. Between fits of hacking cough brought on by at least
- AIDS AT 20 / Toll Is More Than Lives.
- Newsday - May 30, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Economics is driving the mission of the leader of global health, Gro Harlem Brundtland, because, she says, money is at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway , was named director general of the World Health Organization a year and a half ago. Since then, she has cornered minis
- AIDS AT 20 / The Changing Faces of AIDS.
- Newsdays -May 29, 2001
- Laurie Garrett and Richard Dalton, Staff Writers
- Most Americans are now significantly less concerned about the AIDS epidemic than they were a few years ago, a new survey shows, but their increasing comfort stands in sharp contrast to the reality. The survey finds that 26 percent of respondents named AIDS as the most important health problem facing the nation, compare
- AIDS AT 20: Legacy of Hope and Despair - First of three parts
- Newsday - May 29, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Immaculately attired, a glass of Bordeaux in her hand, Dr. Mathilde Krim grimaces at the question: What is the future of the AIDS pandemic? Krim has devoted the past two decades of her life to combating HIV. It s a battle without many victories. That is too terrible to consider, she says. The Swiss-born founder of the
- U.S., Africa Address AIDS Funding
- Newsday, April 27, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday called for creation of a multibillion-dollar global trust fund for treatment and prevention of the world s AIDS pandemic. Annan s plea, issued as the annual meeting of the Organization for African Unity convened in Abuja, Nigeria , resonated in Congress as Secret
- Dispute Surfacing Over AIDS Funding / Some warn a focus on prevention is needed
- Newsday - April 7, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, along with the leaders of other foundations that play prominent roles in combatting AIDS, issued a warning Friday that escalating HIV treatment efforts in poor countries, without commensurate increases in prevention campaigns, will not succeed. His press conference came two days after
- Harvard Urges AIDS Trust Fund / Rich nations would pay for drug system in poor
- Newsday - April 5, 2001
- Laurie Garret, Staff Writer
- A coalition of 128 members of the Harvard University faculty yesterday proposed a multibillion-dollar plan for treating AIDS patients in poor countries, primarily in Africa. It calls for rich countries to create an HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Trust Fund, which would purchase discounted anti-HIV drugs to be distri
- Studies: AIDS Drugs Worth Cost / Researchers say costly 'cocktails' extend lives, decrease hospital fees
- Newsday - March 15, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Expensive drug cocktails used to treat people with HIV disease pay for themselves by prolonging patients lives and labor productivity, and by decreasing their hospitalization costs, according to two studies in today s New England Journal of Medicine. If the price of anti-HIV drug cocktails was reduced significantly, to
- Eyeing an Ad Ban: Critics say HIV drugs' claims paint too rosy a picture
- Newsday - March 13, 2001
- Laurie Garrett, Staff Writer
- Officials in San Francisco will soon hold hearings on whether to ban public advertising of prescription drugs used to treat AIDS. They are concerned that the advertising s images of healthy looking young men engaged in an active lifestyle is contributing to a lessening of concern in the gay community about the fatal da
- AIDS Blocker In Placentas / Lab trials show it may protect most fetuses from deadly virus
- Newsday - February 9, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Different Approaches to AIDS: At annual conference, U.S. agencies debate handling of epidemic
- Newsday - February 8, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Hepatitis Plaguing AIDS Patients
- Newsday - February 7, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Studies: Some Women Block HIV
- Newsday - February 7, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Brain Seen as Special Target for HIV
- Newsday - February 6, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- A Call To Wealthier Nations / $1B wanted yearly to fight AIDS in Africa
- Newsday - February 5, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Sticking to Science / Chicago AIDS conference expected to be less political
- Newsday - February 4, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- HIV Alarm in City / Survey finds worst rise among gay black males
- Newsday - January 24, 2001
- Laurie Garret, Staff Writer
- UN Criticized On AIDS Effort / Holbrooke: Peacekeepers need testing
- Newsday - January 19, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
- Change in Guidelines for HIV / U.S. officials to tout new treatment policy
- Newsday - January 17, 2001
- Laurie Garrett
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