Canada puts $105 million into global AIDS fight
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People around the world marked World AIDS Day by focussing on the need to protect women and young girls, as Canada announced $105 million in new funding for the cause.
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Attendees of the AIDS Vaccine &#39;04 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday called for increased global financial support for the development of HIV vaccines, saying as much as $18 billion will be needed over the next decade for vaccine research.
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Routine, universal testing for the AIDS virus as recommended by a federal agency will likely cost the United States $900 million, but will pay off in terms of lives and money, experts said on Wednesday.
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The rest of the world has contributed so little to the fight against AIDS that the U.S. cannot make its full contribution this year.
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TORONTO - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country&#39;s blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
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Since the mid-1970s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been spreading throughout the world, causing an epidemic that many people consider difficult if not impossible to curtail.
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he rest of the world has contributed so little to the fight against AIDS that the United States cannot make its full contribution this year, President Bush&#39;s global AIDS coordinator said yesterday.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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WASHINGTON -- Michel Kazatchkine , France's AIDS ambassador and a Harvard-educated doctor specializing in infectious diseases, was selected yesterday as the new head of the $7 billion Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Highly populated countries like India, China and Russia are at a key point in their fight against AIDS which could determine whether they have limited outbreaks or a large epidemic which could have a major effect on how the world treats the disease
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The Canadian government and Bill Gates announced an initiative Tuesday to establish a research institute to develop an AIDS vaccine, committing a total of $119 million to the project. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said his government has pledged $95.3 million to a new fund called the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has promised up to $24 million.
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A portion of sales goes to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.
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This Wednesday was the 17th Annual World AIDS Day. The theme for this yearâs event was âWomen, Girls, HIV and AIDS,â a demographic that makes up nearly half of the 39.4 million people who are infected
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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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US global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias earlier this week gave developed countries a September extension to contribute US $243 million to fulfil their pledges to the Global AIDS Fund.
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Canada and most other members of the G8 are failing to meet their fair share of the cost of financing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global AIDS Alliance said Thursday.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.