PRETORIA, South Africa , Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The state must make a key AIDS drug available to pregnant women to prevent their infants from getting the virus, a South African court ruled Friday. According to the ruling, the government must provide the drug Nevirapine to all women giving birth in state-run hospitals. The go
United Press International - Saturday, 8 December 2001
John Zarocostas
GENEVA, Switzerland , Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The international donor community on Friday pledged $764 million in aid to the war-ravaged African republic of Burundi for the period 2002-2004, said the United Nations Development Program. Major contributors included the World Bank, with about $140 million to $150 million; the Eur
United Press International - Monday, 3 December 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The American Medical Association s scientific research committee on Monday urged the organization to change its policy on HIV testing of pregnant women to eliminate mandatory testing from its recommendations. The move was applauded by most doctors at the semiannual gathering of the AMA s
United Press International - Saturday, 1 December 2001
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- World AIDS Day, which will be observed Saturday, carries the theme I Care ... Do You? -- which is meant to stress that everyone bears responsibility in fighting this deadly disease. About 40 million people worldwide are living with AIDS or HIV infections, according to international health a
United Press International - Saturday, 1 December 2001
Ellen Beck
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agency for International Development is hoping just $1.5 million, doled out this fiscal year in small grants to secular and faith-based community groups in Africa, will spark better care for HIV/AIDS victims and prevent spread of the disease. I have seen what small amounts of money
United Press International - Friday, 30 November 2001
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agency for International Development on Friday said its CORE Initiative will provide $1.5 million this fiscal year for HIV/AIDS demonstration projects and small grants for secular and faith-based community groups throughout Africa. The idea is to allow local African communities to
GENEVA, Switzerland , Nov. 28 (UPI) -- An estimated 5 million people worldwide are expected to become newly infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, in 2001, according to a joint report issued Wednesday by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization . The increase would bring the total number
United Press International - Thursday, 29 November 2001
Ellen Beck, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Syphilis rates in 2000 fell to an all-time low and federal health officials said Wednesday eliminating the sexually transmitted disease in America is a realistic goal. Dr. George Counts, director of syphilis eradication efforts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, s
DURBAN, South Africa , (UPI) -- Although South Africa enjoys one of the highest incidences of rape in the world --- exact figures are always a matter of controversy since feminist groups at least double the official figures to allow for unreported rapes, while the government indignantly tries to cut the figure down --
The AIDS virus HIV must attach itself to cholesterol-rich regions of a cell s membrane before it can do its dirty deed, researchers have found. The scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., removed cholesterol from cells and found the virus lost much of its punch, slowing
United Press International - Friday, 16 November 2001
Jenny Pribble, UPI Science News
SANTIAGO, Chile , Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A Chilean TV director hopes including a HIV-infected character into a popular television show will educate people about the dangers of unprotected sex in a country where abortion is illegal, AIDS death are increasing and the Roman Catholic Church influences public debate on sex. I
United Press International - Monday, 12 November 2001
Martin Walker, Chief International Correspondent
DOHA, Qatar , Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Delegates from 142 countries brought discreet toiletry kits with them Monday evening, preparing to work through the last scheduled night of the World Trade Organization summit in Qatar, as a new commitment to trade liberalization remained bogged down in dispute. The main differences w
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Billy Graham s son, Franklin, will convene a five-day international Christian AIDS conference in Washington to make U.S. evangelicals more aware of this devastating pandemic, his spokesman told United Press International Friday. It is Franklin Graham s opinion that the evangelical church in America
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Researchers at Jefferson Medical College have developed a strategy -- using a natural compound -- to flush the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) out of dormancy in the cellular reservoirs of the body. The agent, prostratin, comes from a Samoan rainforest tree, and appears to stimulate the
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Under heavy security, activists converged Thursday on the office of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, calling for a relaxation of drug patents, a move that would let Third World countries produce generic medicines for millions of impoverished AIDS sufferers. The protests, organized by the A
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers have found clues that point to the extraordinary, terrorist-like power of a single protein to promote HIV infection and progression. It appears that in an absolutely amazing process, the protein forces the membrane around the cell nucleus -- the nuclear envelope -- to rupture,
Research from the National Institutes of Health finds a common and apparently harmless virus appears to significantly hinder early stages of HIV infection in laboratory grown human tissue. Future research could lead to new drugs that can better help the immune system to fend off HIV, and may even lead to new strategies
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday existing law allows the federal government to purchase generic Cipro, the antibiotic most often mentioned as an anthrax treatment, bypassing the commercial patent held by the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer. Allowing for what is known as compulso
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , Oct. 16 (UPI) -- As many as 7 million people could die from AIDS in South Africa by 2010, according to a report released Tuesday. The partly government funded Medical Research Council, which issued the report, said about 40 percent of adult deaths last year were caused by AIDS. It is e
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Patients infected with the AIDS virus appear to do well following receipt of donor kidneys and livers, researchers reported Monday at the World Congress of Nephrology. To receive the organs, the patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus or HIV must also receive cyclosporine --
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researchers at the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center announced the start of a clinical trial testing the first AIDS vaccine. To have taken this vaccine from concept to clinical-grade product in such a short time is an extraordinary accomplishment, comme
Researchers have found how the AIDS virus usurps a cell s normal machinery to leave one cell and infect others. This is an important step toward developing drugs to control the disease, researchers said. The scientists crippled the machinery by silencing a gene that normally makes the Tsg101 protein. Without the protei
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics Inc. have discovered how the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, hijacks normal life processes within a healthy cell to spread the disease. A virus cannot spread -- or bud as we say -- without the help of a protein, said Wes Sun
United Press International - Monday, 24 September 2001
Bruce Sylvester
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept 24. (UPI) -- Researchers say a viral infection resulting from HIV causes a treatable form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig s disease. Researchers have been surprised that drugs used to fight human immunodeficiency virus also appear to be effective in stopping the progre
United Press International - Wednesday, 19 September 2001
NHLANGANO, Swaziland , Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The king of Swaziland has ordered a 5-year ban on sex for young unmarried girls and women in the country in an effort to stem the rise of AIDS in the country. King Mswati III used the occasion of his 33rd birthday Sunday to revive the Umchwaso Chastity Rule. Under the order, you
United Press International - Tuesday, 11 September 2001
Susanne Padilha
HONG KONG, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A Chinese court has awarded the family of a woman, who died after being infected with the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion, 10 million yuan -- $1.2 million -- the China Daily reported. Chen Xiumei was infected during a transfusion at Nanzhang County No. 2 People s Hospital in Hubei Pr
United Press International - Wednesday, 5 September 2001
Charles Choi
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An apparently harmless virus known as GBV-C appears capable of improving the survival rate of AIDS patients by slowing down the growth of human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the deadly disease. We are now working to understand precisely how GBV-C inhibits HIV from growing, seni
United Press International - Monday, 3 September 2001
Jennifer Pribble
SANTIAGO, Chile , Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The number of HIV infections and AIDS cases are growing at an alarming rate in Chile, however the government may delay a public awareness and prevention campaign for another year because of financial shortfalls. The Chilean government has not had a far-reaching information campaign ad
United Press International - Friday, 24 August 2001
SAO PAULO, Brazil , Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Brazil threatened Thursday to break the patent of an AIDS drug manufactured and distributed by the Swiss firm Roche, but some believe the threat may just be a negotiating ploy. Brazilian Health Minister Jose Serra asked the public health laboratory to manufacture a generic version o
United Press International - Thursday, 23 August 2001
HONG KONG, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- China for the first time Thursday acknowledged an AIDS epidemic and said it had initiated an action plan to combat the disease, Radio TV Hong Kong reported. According to official estimates, 600,000 Chinese are HIV positive, a 67 percent increase over last year s
United Press International - Thursday, 23 August 2001
Bruce Sylvester
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Representatives of black and Latino organizations Wednesday called on the state of New York to declare a state of emergency on HIV/AIDS and increased funding to targeted communities. Every hour in this country, 7 people in America are come down with HIV and 3 out of those 7 are African-Americ
United Press International - Wednesday, 22 August 2001
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Representatives of black and Latino organizations Wednesday called on the state of New York to declare a state of emergency on HIV/AIDS and increased funding to targeted communities. Every hour in this country, 7 people in America are come down with HIV and 3 out of those 7 are African-Americ
United Press International - Saturday, 18 August 2001
Jennifer Pribble, UPI Science News
SANTIAGO, Chile , Aug. 18 (UPI) -- AIDS is now the second leading cause of death for young Chilean men from Santiago between the ages of 20 and 44 according to the 2001 epidemiological bulletin published by the Ministry of Health s National AIDS Commission. While there are currently 8,000 reported cases of AIDS in the
United Press INternational - Friday, 17 August 2001
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , Aug. 17 (UPI) -- More than 7 million people could be infected with HIV or AIDS in South Africa in the next 10 years, a report said Friday. South Africa already had four million HIV/AIDS patients by December 2000. Between 5.3 and 6.1 million would suffer from HIV/AIDS by 2005, and 6 million
United Press International - Wednesday, 15 August 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Three pregnant, drug-abusing women infected with the virus that causes AIDS agreed to check themselves into a hospital so they could receive complex treatment that might prevent transmission of the virus to their babies -- and all delivered healthy children. In a report to the National HIV Pre
United Press International - Tuesday, 14 August 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Four in 10 people, most at high risk for AIDS, are not tested for the disease until years after being infected, researchers reported Tuesday. Failure to treat patients in a timely manner, government researchers said at the National HIV Prevention Conference, results in patients not getting tre
United Press International - Tuesday, 14 August 2001
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) - Authorities in the United States face a difficult choice, what s more important: saving lives or saving jobs. The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that in the next few weeks the United States will buy up to 550 million condoms for free distribution among the poor in the Third World. In doin
United Press International - Monday, 13 August 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Needle exchange programs -- providing clean injecting devices for intravenous drug users -- appear to have reversed the AIDS epidemic among drug users in New York, researchers said Monday at the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Ga. Sharing used needles and syringes is one of
United Press International - Monday, 13 August 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- The estimated number of new cases of infection with the virus which causes AIDS remained constant in the United States for the third straight year. There were roughly 40,000 new infections last year said government officials Monday at the National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Ga.
United Press International - Friday, 10 August 2001
Al Webb, UPI Science News
LONDON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization ranked the Middle East Sultanate of Oman as the country with the world s most efficient health system in a study published Friday. Second and third most efficient were
United Press International - Thursday, 9 August 2001
BEIJING, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- China said Thursday it is facing a serious AIDS crisis in the central Henan province. Last year, AIDS activists warned the Chinese government that Henan had 100.000s of AIDS victims, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. Most of them were infected with the HIV virus while selling their blood
United Press International - Thursday, 2 August 2001
Alex Cukan
ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old HIV-positive man who made headlines when he claimed he knowingly had unprotected sex with hundreds of women in New York was denied parole Thursday. Nushawn Williams is serving a 4-to-12-year prison sentence at the Clinton Correctional Facility near Syracuse, N.Y. for pleading
UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (UPI) -- A special U.N. envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa said Monday the fight by Kenya , Rwanda and Nigeria raised hope the pandemic could be defeated. Secretary-General Kofi Annan s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, just returned to U.
United Press International - Saturday, 28 July 2001
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan , July 28 (UPI) -- More people can resist HIV infection than previously believed, Uzbek scientists say, because of the discovery that the mutant gene CCR5-delta32 -- which slows or stops the progression of the virus -- is found among more populations than first thought. The mutation is a variant of
WASHINGTON, July 27 (UPI) - A report that shows mixed findings on the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases has renewed debate over what the Centers for Disease Control should be telling the public on the subject and what additional research is needed. The report, issued las
DEERFIELD, Ill., July 23 (UPI) -- Baxter Healthcare Monday recalled one lot of Albumin (Buminate) 5 percent solution because the blood volume expander contains a low level of the rare HIV-2 virus. A Baxter spokeswoman said the recall is just precautionary because the virus would have been killed in the pasteurization p
United Press International - Monday, July 23, 2001
Hil Anderson
LOS ANGELES, July 23 (UPI) -- An HIV-stricken Thai boy who was rented out as a prop to help a woman enter the United States illegally will be allowed to remain in the country indefinitely under a T visa granted to victims of so-called human smuggling, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Monday. Four-year-old P
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 23 (UPI) -- Getting the best AIDS treatments money can buy to nations without money to buy them may be the only way to eradicate the global plague, according to new findings by Notre Dame University researchers. Until now, the best arguments for providing costly AIDS drugs to impoverished African
Susan Helen Moran, Written for United Press International
WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- Restrictions on the controversial insecticide DDT, known to inexpensively and effectively combat the parasite-carrying mosquitoes responsible for malaria, could kill thousands of people and cost millions of dollars, according to a recent report from a British think tank. Other think tanks,
United Press International - Thursday, 12 July 2001
Mike Cooper, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, July 12 (UPI) -- The number of syphilis cases among newborn infants declined by more than half since 1997 as fewer women of childbearing age were infected with the sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Thursday. Pregnant women with syphilis can pass the disease on to their unborn children
United Press International - Wednesday, 11 July 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 11 (UPI) -- A 39-year-old father may have accidentally transmitted the AIDS virus to his young son, possibly through open sores on his hands, researchers reported Wednesday. Doctors at the Hospital de Ninos Sor Maria Ludovica in La Plata, Argentina, said molecular testing on the virus fro
United Press International - Wednesday, 11 July 2001
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 11 (UPI) -- A strain of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, that is spreading with a fury may be less deadly than other strains, a Case Western University researcher said Wednesday. Virologist Eric Arts said the C subtype of HIV is spreading more rapidly than other variants, including t
United Press International - Wednesday, 11 July 2001
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 11 (UPI) -- A virus that causes colds may play a key role in a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, a U.S. researcher told a conference on the science of AIDS Wednesday. A vaccine using the common adenovirus has allowed rhesus macaques infected with a hybrid test viru
United Press International - Tuesday, 10 July 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 10 (UPI) -- A controversial treatment in which patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS are allowed to only take medications on alternate weeks appears to hold the deadly virus at bay -- and after a year has not resulted in the creation of a drug resistant virus. Our results
United Press International - Tuesday, 10 July 2001
Michael Smith, UPI Science News
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 10 (UPI) -- Within 20 years, more than 200 million people worldwide could be infected with human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, which causes AIDS, a leading researcher said Tuesday. This pandemic is not stabilizing, said Italian researcher Stefano Vella, president of the International AID
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina , July 9 (UPI) -- Executives at the Botswana-DeBeers diamond mines decided to treat their AIDS-infected workers in that African nation with state-of-the-art medicine -- even though a study shows the company would save money not providing the drugs. When we did the actuarial studies, said Tsetse
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The portion of the nation s prison inmates known to be infected with the human immuno-deficiency virus, the precursor of AIDS, fluctuated between 2.3 percent and 2.1 percent between 1995 and 1999, but prison deaths from the disease dropped dramatically during that period, the Justice Departm
United Press International - Saturday, 7 July 2001
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia , July 7 (UPI) -- Cambodia is becoming the hot spot for AIDS infection in Asia, The New York Times reported on Saturday. It is a common sight in Cambodia to see thin, wasted individuals who are suffering from this disease. It is certainly the hot spot of the epidemic in Asia, in terms of the highes
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 6 (UPI) -- A novel technique to bind drugs with compounds called phospholipids increases their effectiveness against cancer and viruses, scientists said Friday. Wake Forest School of Medicine researcher Louis Kucera, who pioneered the technique, has formed a partnership with Wake Forest and th
NEW YORK, June 29 (UPI) -- Critics from some health organizations said Friday that while a three-day U.N. General Assembly special session on HIV/AIDS failed to address the world s other plagues, it did focus attention on the need to curb the devastating consequences HIV/AIDS poses, particularly for Asia and Africa.
United Press International - Wednesday, 27 June 2001
Richard Ale
UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (UPI) -- The U.N. General Assembly will vote Wednesday on an agreement reached on a General Assembly declaration committing the world community to timetables and accelerated efforts in the battle against AIDS. An agreement was apparently reached late last night, after the opposition of conservat
United Press International - Wednesday, 27 June 2001
Richard Sale
UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (UPI) -- Calling the AIDS pandemic an unprecedented crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised the U.N. AIDS Declaration, to be voted on later Wednesday, as a clear battle plan for a war against the virus. AIDS has infected 36 million people worldwide and has killed 17 million in sub-Saha
United Press International - Wednesday, 27 June 2001
Kathy Gambrell, UPI Washington Reporter
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki defended his policies on AIDS on Wednesday, saying the illness which erodes the immune system can be linked to poverty and malnutrition as well as HIV. Mbeki, the second person to hold the office of president in post-apartheid South Africa, explained to a
United Press International - Wednesday, 27 June 2001
Richard Sale and Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, June 27 (UPI) -- The United Nations General Assembly, in an unprecedented special session on a major health issue, unanimously approved late Wednesday a Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS that sets guidelines and timetables for an accelerated battle against the disease. The final text was subject to
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- The Pfizer Foundation, the giving arm of one of the world s largest pharmaceutical companies, has announced it will fund a $315,000 study in Uganda to determine which preventive measures have been most effective in curbing HIV infection. The study will be conducted over 18 months in
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- In a letter to the largest industrialized nations, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged them to make a sustained material contribution to the Global AIDS and Health Fund, which he said he is promoting as a personal priority. Annan s letter to the leaders of the Group of Eight (G-
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- Poverty reduction efforts in developing countries are severely hampered by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which is shrinking up to 2 percent of annual economic growth in the worst affected countries, a U.N. agency said Tuesday. The United Nations Development Program, in a report titled HIV/AIDS
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Kathy Gambrell, UPI Washington Reporter
WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- Facing international criticism for his stance on AIDS and skipping a global summit addressing the disease ravaging his country, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday met with President Bush in Washington. I ve been looking forward to this because for us, Mr. President, our relation
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Richard Ale
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- DaimlerChrysler South Africa is the latest industrial giant to join an international group of companies spearheading efforts to combat the ravages of AIDS the group s chairman announced Tuesday at the United Nations in New York. The automotive giant joins AOL Time Warner, Bristol Myers
United Press International - Tuesday, 26 June 2001
Richard Sale
UNITED NATIONS, June 26 (UPI) -- The HIV/AIDS epidemic is unraveling decades of progress in child survival and development across sub-Saharan Africa and is spreading like wildfire in the Caribbean, South and Southwest Asia, and in Russia , UNICEF officials said Tuesday. Speaking at a special U.N. panel discussion calle
UNITED NATIONS, June 25 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the world community Monday to change its attitude toward AIDS and underscored that never, since the nightmare began, has there been such a moment of common purpose in the battle against it. We cannot deal with AIDS by making moral judgments, or re
UNITED NATIONS, June 25 (UPI) -- The Coca-Cola Foundation in Africa will co-ordinate local support for AIDS programs across the continent with substantial resources, to prevent further spread of the disease, the U.N. announced Monday. The Joint U.N Program on HIV/AIDS has signed an agreement with the Foundation in Gene
UNITED NATIONS, June 25 (UPI) -- Likening the AIDS epidemic to the Black Plague of the Middle Ages, Secretary of State Colin Powell called for prevention, public education, affordable drugs and finding a cure as key elements in the world community s fight against AIDS. Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly s special se
UNITED NATIONS, June 25 (UPI) -- Negotiations over the adoption of a final Declaration of Commitment at the U.N. s special session on HIV/AIDS have stumbled on several obstacles and turned difficult, mainly due to Islamic governments and Christian opposition, officials said Monday. The negotiations on the draft text, t
WASHINGTON, June 25 (UPI) -- A Moscow representative at the special U.N. General Assembly session on AIDS Monday say the disease now threatens the national security of his country. This is a highly significant official acknowledgement of both the speed of the spread of HIV infections in Russia and the impact t
UNITED NATIONS, June 22 (UPI) -- Against the backdrop of controversy and increasing tensions between developing and rich nations, the U.N. General Assembly will hold a special two-day session on HIV/AIDS Monday in New York, to underline the growing concern over the rapid spread of the disease around the world. As a nov
United Press International - Wednesday, 20 June 2001
Joyce Frieden, UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- People with health problems should be able to buy individual health insurance at reasonable prices -- but the market needs reforming before that s the case, said the authors of a study released Wednesday. To level the playing field, there needs to be substantial changes made in how the indi
United Press International - Wednesday, 20 June 2001
John Zarocostas
GENEVA, Switzerland , June 20 (UPI) -- Fueled by the outcry over problems faced by poor African nations needing essential drugs at affordable prices to combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases, the World Trade Organization held a sometimes passionate debate Wednesday on the effects of global patents. Members must affirm
United Press International - Tuesday, 19 June 2001
William M. Reilly
UNITED NATIONS, June 19 (UPI) -- A $100 million contribution to the Global AIDS and Health Fund by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Tuesday touched off a chorus of praise from U.N. officials who expressed hope it would encourage other donors. The largest private gift yet to the fund compares to the $200 million
United Press International - Tuesday, 12 June 2001
Mike Cooper, UPI Science News
ATLANTA, June 12 (UPI) -- Tuberculosis cases in the United States hit an all-time low last year, falling by 7 percent from the 1999 rate and marking the eighth consecutive year the numbers have gone down, federal health officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 16,377 TB cas
UNited Press International - Tuesday, 12 June 2001
LONDON, June 12 (UPI) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki began a four-day state visit to Britain Tuesday that was expected to center on business ties, but soft-pedal Pretoria s relations with Zimbabwe and its own problems with HIV and Aids. Mbeki arrived with eight government ministers and some 80 businessmen -- an
United Press International - Wednesday, 6 June 2001
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (UPI) -- Pfizer said Wednesday it is expanding its free anti-fungal drug program for needy HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa to the world s 50 least developed nations. The drug, Diflucan, treats the opportunistic infections cryptococcal meningitis and esophageal candidiasis.
United Press International - Wednesday, 6 June 2001
WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb , a U.S. pharmaceuticals company, is near to winning its $8 billion bid for the DuPont company s pharmaceuticals division in a highly competitive auction for the DuPont drug unit, according to a report in the Financial Times. In late Tuesday bidding, Bristol was emerging
LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- A judge in Los Angeles ruled Monday that a 3-year-old Thai boy stricken with HIV may remain in the United States so that he can receive medical care. The youth was detained last year when he was allegedly used as a prop by a couple illegally entering the country.
UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (UPI) -- Two decades after the first cases were officially reported, the world is finally coming to grips with the AIDS crisis, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday, adding that he thinks 2001 will be the year we turned the tide. Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of the release of that report,
United Press International - Saturday, 2 June 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- Twenty years and more than 20 million deaths after AIDS was first recognized, U.S. business leaders are being asked to pitch in and do their part to help stop the disease s spread in developing countries. On Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on business leaders to fo
UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan Friday led U.N. officials in mourning the death of 12-year-old Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy, credited with breaking the HIV/AIDS silence in his country. Nkosi was an inspiration to many people beyond South Africa, Annan said upon learning of his death.
UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday appointed Stephen Lewis, a veteran Canadian diplomat and the former deputy director of UNICEF, as his special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa to follow up on the Abuja AIDS summit. Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette, another Canadian, made the a
LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- The number of newly diagnosed HIV cases in Britain has reached an all-time high and thousands more cases remain undetected and unreported, the Public Health Laboratory Service disclosed Friday. The United Kingdom s PHLS reported a record 3,435 new cases of the virus last year, a 14 percent incre
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- American and world business leaders must realize that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a direct threat to their markets and profits, and get involved in battle against the disease, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Friday. As 42 percent of U.S. exports go to markets
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , June 1 (UPI) -- Nkosi Johnson, a 12-year-old AIDS activist whom Nelson Mandela once praised as an icon in the struggle against the epidemic, lost his fight against the disease on Friday. The child s foster mother, Gail Johnson, said he died peacefully in his sleep early Friday. Mandela
United Press International - Thursday, 17 May 2001
Mike Cooper, UPI Science Writer
ATLANTA, May 17 (UPI) -- Opposition to the contrary, needle-exchange programs that attempt to reduce transmission of the virus that causes AIDS have expanded to at least 81 cities in 31 states, federal health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said more than 19 million syringes were
United Press International - Wednesday, 16 May 2001
John Zarocostas
GENEVA, Switzerland , May 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of Health, Tommy G. Thompson, said Wednesday that Africa needs a Marshall Plan to fight AIDS, which is spreading at a devastating speed in the continent. He said unless something as big as the Marshall Plan -- which revitalized Europe after the World War II -- was at
Chicago Tribune Many Americans with serious illnesses, including cancer and AIDS, have been lucky enough to find a drug that can greatly ease their symptoms. But they also suffer some bad luck: It s marijuana. For a long time, people needing to use pot as medicine have had to contend with the inconvenient fact that the
PHILADELPHIA, May 11 (UPI) -- If laboratory tests on cell cultures hold true for patients infected with HIV, a researcher believes he has found a way to delay or even prevent the dementia that often accompanies the later stages of AIDS. Dr. Avindra Nath, a neurologist with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said
United Press International - Thursday, 10 May 2001
Eli J. Lake
WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- President Bush is set to unveil a global AIDS initiative Friday in anticipation of a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, including a significant contribution to a proposed U.N. trust fund earmarked for combating the deadly virus. Speaking Thursday before a House panel on foreign
United Press International - Wednesday, 9 May 2001
William M. Reilly
UNITED NATIONS, May 9 (UPI) -- A U.N. spokesman said Wednesday Secretary-General Kofi Annan would meet President Bush and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in Washington Friday to discuss HIV/AIDS and Annan s proposal for a global AIDS fund. The spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said Annan met on the AIDS issue in Washington
UNITED NATIONS, May 8 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan will visit Washington to meet Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson and other senior officials on HIV/AIDS, a spokesman said Tuesday. Annan will arrive Wednesday afternoon and return from Washington in the evening.
United Press International - Wednesday, 2 May 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, May 2 (UPI) -- Mandatory testing for AIDS identifies pregnant women who are unaware they are carrying the disease, allowing prenatal therapy to prevent infection of the newborn, researchers said Wednesday. I was opposed to the law that requires testing, said Dr. Urania Magriples, associate professor of obstetr
United Press International - Sunday, 29 April, 2001
T.K. MALOY, UPI Deputy Business Editor
WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, whose spring meetings in Washington continue Monday, have created a world that many activists say is unfair to the world s poor countries. But what economic policies would the various opposition groups prefer to see instead? For many of the g
United Press International - Saturday, 28 April 2001
Mike Martin, UPI Science Coorespondent
SAN DIEGO, April 28 (UPI) -- A novel filtration process designed to remove the AIDS virus from human blood has shown excellent promise in a series of pre-clinical trials, according to researchers at Aethlon Medical, an early stage biotechnology firm in La Jolla, Calif. Trials of the filtration system, aptly named the H
United Press International - Friday, 27 April 2001
ABUJA, Nigeria , April 27 (UPI) - Nearly 50 African heads of state and former U.S. President Bill Clinton supported U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan s appeal Friday for setting up a multi-million dollar fund to fight AIDS in Africa. We need between $7bn and $10bn for the fight against AIDS to be effective, said Anan,
United Press International - Thursday, 26 April 2001
ABUJA, Nigeria , April 26 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday called for a global war chest of $7 billion to $10 billion annually over an extended period of time for the battle against AIDS and other infectious diseases, an amount he said was little more than 1 percent of the world s annual military spending
United Press International - Thursday, 26 April 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
LONDON, April 26 (UPI) -- Four new studies refute a controversial theory that the AIDS pandemic originated in polio vaccine contaminated with chimpanzee cells that was distributed in parts of Africa in the 1950s. Although the scientists involved in developing the polio vaccine have repeatedly stated that that no chimpa
United Press International - Monday, 23 April 2001
Adegboyega Somefun
ABUJA, Nigeria , April 23 (UPI) -- Former President Bill Clinton, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan were scheduled to speak at the same meeting this week as officials from across Africa gather for a summit on the HIV/AIDS crisis on the continent. More than 25 heads of African states,
United Press International - Monday, 23 April 2001
John Zarocostas
GENEVA, Switzerland , April 23 (UPI) -- The United States and Brazil clashed Monday at the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting on access to drugs to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS and intellectual property protection for pharmaceutical companies. The trigger for the showdown was a resolutio
United Press International - Saturday, 21 April 2001
QUEBEC, April 21 (UPI) -- The World Bank plans to devote up to $150 million to fight HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn announced Saturday from the Summit of the Americas. Wolfensohn also said the bank would support Latin American and Caribbean countries efforts to fight poverty by prop
United Press International - Friday, 20 April 2001
PRETORIA, South Africa , April 20 (UPI) -- AIDS activists and government officials were celebrating Friday a legal victory that would allow them to import anti-AIDS drugs at rates much lower than those of the world s major pharmaceutical companies. Bowing to mounting public pressure, 39 pharmaceutical companies withdre
United Press International - Friday, 20 April 2001
Kurt Samson
ATLANTA, April 20 (UPI) -- Don t ask, don t tell, appears to be a policy embraced by many heterosexuals with HIV and their unknowing partners, new findings suggest. In interviews of heterosexuals with HIV/AIDS about how they became infected with the virus, researchers found that 80 percent had not asked their partner s
United Press International - Thursday, 19 April 2001
PRETORIA, South Africa , April 19 (UPI) -- The South African government and pharmaceutical companies have reached agreement on the dispute over South Africa s decision to produce and buy cheap drugs for AIDS, The Star newspaper reported Thursday. Quoting government sources, the South African newspaper said pharmaceutic
United Press International - Thursday, 19 April 2001
William M. Reilly
UNITED NATIONS, April 19 (UPI) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday welcomed news that pharmaceutical companies were withdrawing their suit against South Africa s decision to produce and buy inexpensive AIDS drugs. Annan said he hoped the decision to withdraw would help increase access to AIDS and other medicines,
United Press International - Thursday, 19 April 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
PRETORIA, South Africa , April 19 (UPI) -- Word that 39 pharmaceutical companies had withdrawn a lawsuit to keep generic versions of their HIV-AIDS drugs out of South Africa was cheered as a breakthrough in the global fight against the disease by AIDS groups Thursday. The pharmaceutical companies were assured by the So
United Press International - Wednesday, 18 April 2001
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , April 18 (UPI) -- The South African government takes the stand later Wednesday in Pretoria s High Court to defend its decision to import or produce cheap copies of brand-name Aids drugs. But reports said drug companies that brought the lawsuit have begun negotiations with South Africa to se
United Press International - Wednesday, 18 April 2001
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa , April 18 (UPI) -- A landmark court case between the South African government and the world s leading drugs companies was adjourned Wednesday amid attempts to find an out of court settlement. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported that the 39 companies had informed the governmen
United Press International - Wednesday, 18 April 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Reporter
PRETORIA, South Africa April 18 (UPI) -- Pharmaceutical manufacturers decided Wednesday to drop a controversial lawsuit in South Africa aimed at prohibiting organizations there from manufacturing or importing low-cost generic copies of patented drugs to treat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. After a six-week postponement, le
United Press International - Tuesday, 17 April 2001
CAPE TOWN, South Africa , April 17 (UPI) - The number of Aids related deaths in Cape Town has tripled in 3 years with 25 to 30 burials each weekend, the Cape Times reported Tuesday. In the worst-hit areas of Khayelitsha, Langa and Guguletu, there are scores of funerals every weekend. At the cemetery in Khayelitsha alon
United Press International - Thursday, 12 April 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
South African authorities granted the world s first license Thursday for an artificial blood product, Hemopure, manufactured by Biopure, a Cambridge, Mass., company. Medical experts say Hemopure will vastly extend the shelf life of blood products as well as decrease risk of transmission of blood-borne diseases such as
United Press International - Thursday, 12 April 2001
Mark Kukis
WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- A coalition of social conservatives led by the Family Research Council is mounting a pressure campaign to block President Bush from naming Scott Evertz to head the White House AIDS policy office because Evertz is openly gay. We re not letting this die, said Heather Cirmo, a spokeswoman for
United Press International - Wednesday, 11 April, 2001
LONDON, April 11 (UPI) -- South Africa has become the first country to approve an artificial blood substitute for use in transfusions. The solution, Hemopure, acts like red blood cells, carrying oxygen to body tissues, The Independent of London reported Wednesday. Hemopure is the first blood substitute approved for use
United Press International - Tuesday, 10 April, 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Science Reporter
WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- An ounce of biomedical research is worth a pound of cure, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson s told reporters Monday at a press briefing on President Bush s fiscal year 2002 budget plan, which includes $23 billion dollars for the National Institutes of Health. Funding re
United Press International - Thursday, 5 April, 2001
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands , April 3 (UPI) -- After meeting with executives of six major pharmaceutical firms, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday announced an agreement on steps to help developing countries fight AIDS. Annan, who said he was espousing the fight, the greatest public health challenge of our times
United Press International - Thursday, March 29, 2001
WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- A new coalition of AIDS activists and U.S. lawmakers said Thursday it would push the Bush administration to spend more money to combat an epidemic ravaging much of Africa while it brought more attention worldwide to the links between AIDS and other crises in poor countries. In announcing t
United Press International - Thursday, 29 March, 2001
LONDON, March 29 (UPI) -- A United Kingdom government report says AIDS rates are so high in parts of sub-Saharan Africa that some countries could collapse. The report by the International Development Committee calls for more money to be donated by developed countries to meet the growing pandemic. Health and educati
United Press International - Thursday, 29 March, 2001
HAVANA, March 29 (UPI) -- Cuba and South Africa signed a deal Thursday to develop drugs to fight AIDS, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. The deal was one of many signed by South African President Thabo Mbeki who is visiting Cuba. Cuban leader Fidel Castro had earlier backed South Africa and
United Press International - Tuesday, 27 March, 2001
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., March 27 (UPI) -- Abbott Laboratories Tuesday said it will provide two antiretroviral medications for the treatment of HIV infection in Africa at cost. The Illinois-based pharmaceutical giant also said it will make its Determine HIV-1/2 rapid test available in Africa at no profit. AIDS has taken
United Press International - Tuesday, 27 March, 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Abbott Laboratories Tuesday joined the growing list of pharmaceutical companies offering HIV/AIDS drugs at cost for patients in Africa. In recent weeks, Merck & Co. and Bristol-Meyers Squibb have cut prices for their AIDS products. The companies face growing pressure from doctors, pati
United Press International - Thursday, 22 March, 2001
LONDON, March 22 (UPI) -- One in four pregnant women in South Africa is infected with the AIDS virus and one person in nine in the population as a whole is estimated to be HIV-positive, reports said Thursday, citing government figures. The study gives the most accurate picture to date of the scale of the Aids crisis. I
United Press International - Sunday, 18 March 2001
Timothy Kalyegira
KAMPALA, Uganda , March 18 (UPI) --- The South African government has rejected the offer from an American company of one million free AIDS test kits to help in the fight against the AIDS plague, a local newspaper reported Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper of Johannesburg said the donation offer from U.S. drug manufac
United Press International - Saturday, 17 March 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Although pharmaceutical giants Merck & Co. and Bristol-Meyers Squibb have cut prices for their HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa, other U.S. companies have adopted a wait-and-see policy before following suit with any further cuts. Earlier this month Merck became the first manufacturer to announ
United Press Internation - Wednesday, 14 March 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- Cutting the cost of drugs alone will not curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries. It will take a coordinated international effort to improve access, distribution and patient monitoring practices -- which will be impossible without massive infrastructure changes. Unless such impr
United Press International - Wednesday, 14 March 2001
Kurt Samson, UPI Medical Writer
Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb announced Wednesday it is slashing the price of its two HIV/AIDS drugs to $1 per day or less to help fight the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The drugs will be free in South Africa , where 39 drug companies are battling to keep a law from taking effect that would relax patent
United Press International - Wednesday, 14 March 2001
Bristol-Myers Squibb today announced that it is cutting the price of its two HIV/AIDS drugs to just one dollar per day in sub-Saharan Africa. The drugs will be free in South Africa , where 39 companies are battling to prevent a relaxation of patent restrictions and allow generic copies of the drugs.
United Press International - Tuesday, 13 March, 2001
LONDON, March 14 (UPI) -- Brazilian authorities are cracking down on a dance craze after a 14-year-old girl became pregnant and contracted HIV during a variation on the children s party game of musical chairs, the Independent of London reported Wednesday. The police mission, Operation Funk Ball, was ordered last weeken
United Press International - Monday, 12 March, 2001
Joe Boris
WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- South Africa is considering whether to declare its battle against the AIDS epidemic a national health emergency, a move that could knock down legal barriers to the government s access to AIDS treatment drugs at affordable prices. South Africa s ambassador to the
United Press International - Wednesday, 7 March, 2001
GABORONE, Botswana , March 7 (UPI) -- Botswana s largest diamond company will pay up to 90 percent of the cost of life-extending drugs for its employees infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday. The company, Debswana, said in a statement that in order to extend e
United Press International - Tuesday, 6 March, 2001
Joseph Boris
WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- Two Senate Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday to give poor countries greater access to drugs to treat AIDS, adding to a global controversy pitting big pharmaceutical companies against governments of countries where the disease is rampant. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Russell Fei
United Press International - Tuesday, 6 March, 2001
PRETORIA, South Africa , March 6 (UPI) -- The big drug companies have six weeks to respond to argument from an AIDS lobby group, the Pretoria High Court ruled Tuesday. The drug companies, represented by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Africa, are hoping to prevent South Africa from importing cheap
United Press International - Monday, 5 March, 2001
PRETORIA, South Africa , March 5 (UPI) -- Some of the world s largest drug companies opened their court case against a law that would allow the South African government to import drugs, including AIDS medications, from less-expensive sources such as India and Brazil .
United Press International - Monday, 5 March, 2001
PRETORIA, South Africa , March 5 (UPI) -- Many of the world s biggest drug companies kicked off a court case Monday against the South African government over a law that would let it copy or import cut-price versions of patented AIDS treatment drugs. The opening of what is scheduled to be a weeklong hearing was quickly
United Press International - Wednesday, 28 February, 2001
Kurt Samosn, UPI Medical Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Health and Human Services secretary revealed details Wednesday of a record budget jump in President Bush s proposal for the National Institutes of Health. Speaking at a press conference held at NIH, Tommy Thompson noted the budget calls for a record 13.7 percent increase in funds f
United Press International - Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Joseph Boris
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- AIDS is wreaking its incurable devastation fastest among the world s poorest populations, but they are the ones least able to obtain the expensive drugs that treat the disease. More than 90 percent of the 36 million people currently infected with HIV live in developing countries - a grim st
United Press International - Tuesday, 20 February 2001
Lou Marano
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The high incidence of male-on-male rape in U.S. prisons would be impossible without the complicity or indifference of guards and wardens, testimonials from former convicts say. And much of the public seems to tacitly accept the outrage. Who benefits from prison rape? It has become common kn
United Press International - Tuesday, 20 February 2001
Rodolfo A. Windhausen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the world hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, while the Caribbean has the highest rate of infection outside that region, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in a document prepared for the General Assembly s Special Sessi
United Press International - Saturday, 10 February 2001
Joe Grossman, UPI Science News
Some AIDS researchers now believe a vaccine that may prove effective against one subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus may not be effective against other HIV subtypes. The high mutation rate of the virus has produced at least 12 virus subtypes, sometimes called clades -- as well as numerous variants within each s
United Press International - Thursday, 8 February 2001
Marcella S. Kreiter
CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- People in committed relationships are more likely to talk to their partners about past sexual encounters -- especially where health risks are concerned -- while those in more casual encounters are more likely to whip out a condom and forget the pillow talk, research by a University of Illinois
United Press International - Wednesday, 7 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Jerry the pharmacist -- a disembodied voice in a tape-recorder sized box -- helps keep patients who are infected with the virus which causes AIDS on proper medication, even if those patients have cognitive problems. Memory difficulties and other cognition defects affect as many as 30 percent of
United Press International - Wednesday, 7 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (UPI) - A study in Atlanta suggests only about one in 10 inner-city patients infected with the virus that causes AIDS received treatment that can help keep the virus from causing illness or death. There is a vast difference between being able to detect human immunodeficiency virus and gaining treatment
United Press International - Tuesday, 6 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday they have launched a $300 million program to identify people infected with the virus that causes AIDS. We believe this program can break the back of the epidemic in the United States , said Dr. Rob Janssen, director of th
United Press International - Tuesday, 6 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Evidence of HIV-like viruses in several species of African monkeys -- animals often hunted for their meat for human consumption -- adds weight to theories that AIDS originated from animal contacts. French researchers said Tuesday they had identified 13 different species of monkeys in West Afric
United Press International - Tuesday, 6 February 2001
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Brazilian health officials and nongovernmental organizations are accusing the United States of threatening a critical element of Brazil s successful anti-AIDS program. The dispute is part of a bigger battle by developing nations to get large pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of their
United Press International - Monday, 5 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Researchers unveiled Monday several designer anti-AIDS drugs -- including one that might be potent enough to prevent the AIDS virus from becoming resistant to it. Described as a resistance repellent protease inhibitor, the drug fits so snugly in a critical position of the human immunodeficiency
United Press International - Sunday, 4 February 2001
Ed Susman, UPI Science News
CHICAGO, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A leading economist called on the world s richest nations Sunday to spend $5 billion a year to treat the 35 million people infected with the AIDS virus. Most of those infected live in the world s poorest nations and cannot afford the necessary medications. That would amount to just $5 a year pe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The eighth conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections begins Monday in Chicago and will explore the impact of powerful drugs on AIDS patients. The federal government is planning to use the weeklong forum to present research findings that suggest AIDS patients should wait a while
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The United States on Friday strongly denied that its formal complaint over a Brazilian law on imports would threaten Brazil s successful program of providing low-cost drug treatments to people with AIDS or HIV. A U.S. trade official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
NAIROBI, Kenya , Feb. 2 (UPI) -- AIDS researche s in England and Kenya have started phase I safety trials of an innovative vaccine. This study in humans will be the first of a vaccine specific for the type of HIV -- clade A -- common to much of Africa, the continent hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. The vaccine, if eff
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The South African government plans to provide a medical treatment for pregnant women infected with HIV that dramatically reduces mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS-causing virus. The new measure reverses a governmental policy that critics say cost thousands of lives a year, The Washing
GENEVA, Switzerland , Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization agreed Thursday to the establishment of a dispute panel to review a U.S. complaint that a Brazilian law imposing a local production requirement as a condition for granting of patent protection, breaches global rules. The complaint drew fire from the
United Press International - Friday, 26 January 2001
Anwar Iqbal, UPI Science News
SAN FRANCISCO, JAN. 26 (UPI) -- The number of HIV infections among the city s gay men has more than doubled during the past four years, say San Francisco health officials -- and the trend may not be unique to the California city. The rate of HIV infections has jumped to 2.2 percent of San Francisco s gay male populatio
United Press International - Thursday, 25 January, 2001
LONDON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The number of people diagnosed with HIV in the United Kingdom last year is expected to be the highest ever, British reports said Thursday. For the second year in a row, HIV levels among heterosexuals exceeded those in the homosexual community. There were 1,315 heterosexual cases last year, with
United Press International - Thursday, January 25, 2001
Charles Choi, UPI Science News
Chemists have identified a molecule that can jam one of the key components of HIV, a discovery they hope could limit the spread of AIDS. The molecule is a kind of polyoxometalate, or POM, which are a broad class of inexpensive inorganic chemicals that includes more than 10,000 molecules. The POM targets a building bloc
United Press International - Saturday, January 20, 2001
William M. Reilly
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations said farewell to U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Friday at a debate he began in the Security Council one year ago on HIV/AIDS and peacekeeping. He was roundly praised for his 17-months at the world organization following the announcement the U.N. Department of Peace
WASHINGTON, May 11 (UPI) -- In an effort to fight AIDS in Africa, President Bush Friday unveiled a $200 million initiative to pump money into a global AIDS fund. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo met with Bush for a White House ceremony and discussions on the HIV/AIDS fund that
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