Hetero pulls AIDS drugs off WHO list
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GENEVA, NOVEMBER 19 : Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its anti-retroviral drugs from the World Health Organisationâs (WHO) list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, WHO said on Friday.
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NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half, potent...
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Two generic AIDS treatments by Indian manufacturer Cipla have been reinstated on the World Health Organisation&#39;s recommended list, six months after they were removed for further testing.
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A gel has been created which protects women from getting AIDS during sexual intercourse when the man does not wear a condom. The chemical blocks the route the AIDS virus takes when it invades the woman&#39;s body during sex.
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The Indian drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., has pulled all of its antiretroviral drugs from a World Health Organization (WHO) program that sets minimum quality standards for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs designated for use in poor nations.
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Clinical trials of a new microbicide gel designed to help prevent women contracting HIV are stopped.
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Another Indian pharmaceutical company, Hetero Drugs, has withdrawn its generic anti-AIDS drugs from special World Health Organisation certification amid doubts about tests designed to prove their effectiveness, the UN health agency said.
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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its generic antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc cut the prices on its range of HIV drugs offered to developing countries, marking the fifth such discount since 1997.
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Kampala) The government of Uganda has has issued a warning to the UN joint program on HIV/AIDS that it risks being thrown out of the country if it offers AIDS education to gays.
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New Delhi, Nov 19 (UNI) Following in the footsteps of Ranbaxy and Cipla, Hetero Drugs today became the third Indian pharmaceutical company to voluntarily withdraw its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved essential medicines.
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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of  its generic antiretroviral drugs from the WHO's list of  approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Reggae stars using homophobic lyrics are stoking the spread of HIV, a UK minister is warning in the Caribbean. International Development Minister Gareth Thomas fears that discrimination against homosexuals is deterring people from being tested for HIV.
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Two generic drug products by the Indian drug maker Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated on the World Health Organization's recommended list six months after being removed, a senior WHO official said on Tuesday.
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Researchers have halted two studies of an anti-AIDS vaginal gel in Africa and India after early results suggested it might raise the risk of HIV infection instead of lowering it.
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Zambia has declared HIV/AIDS a national  emergency in a bid to start manufacturing generic AIDS drugs  under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a senior government  official said on Friday.
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LUSAKA  - The Zambian government declared a five-year emergency over the AIDS (news - web sites) pandemic to allow for cheap generic anti-retroviral drugs to be produced locally.