Libya starts HIV funds handout
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Libya begins distributing funds to the families of children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics.
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The world's top AIDS donors, including the U.S. president's fund, need to link the fight against the deadly virus to preventing the rape and abuse of women and girls, rights groups said on Tuesday.
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Bulgaria donated $56.6 million in  Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal  that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting  Libyan children with HIV.
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About 1.2 million people in countries hard hit by AIDS are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major U.S. and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday.
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The Vatican established a foundation Friday to fund Catholic organizations assisting AIDS victims, urging people to contribute even if they object to the Church's opposition to the use of condoms to fight the spread of the disease.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders will lobby the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.
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CAIRO - AIDS/HIV prevention officials in the Middle East and North Africa face a careful balancing act of spreading awareness about the disease without appearing to promote immorality.
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A settlement has been reached with families of HIV-infected children in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, the spokesman for Libya's Gadhafi foundation said Tuesday.
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The families of hundreds of Libyan  children with HIV will receive more than $400 million under a  deal expected to help free six foreign medics sentenced to  death for infecting them, a source said on Monday.
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Talks are set to open on the transfer from Libya to Bulgaria of six medics convicted of infecting children with HIV.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal
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An international fund and families of HIV-infected children in Libya have not yet agreed a financial package for them, a lawyer for foreign medics sentenced to death in the case said on Thursday.
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In observance of today being World AIDS Day, local agencies will offer free HIV testing and educational events in Mobile County. World AIDS Day began in 1988 as an effort to focus global attention on the disease
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Cape Town - Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former president Nelson Mandela and United States rock star Bono, according to the South African government
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The Bush administration's global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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The UK and other nations are to set up a fund to speed the development of new vaccines for poorer countries.
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Rock star Bono on Tuesday urged wealthy nations to step up donations to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria &quot;aggressively&quot; at a major donor meeting in Berlin this week.