Brazil offers drug factory to AIDS-ravaged Mozambique
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Brazil has offered to build a $23 million pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique that will provide drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, Mozambique's national newspaper said on Tuesday.
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China's capital  is to install 1,000 new condom vending machines to fight the spread of HIV and Aids.
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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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A Nigerian brothel becomes the test site for a new AIDS treatment pill.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil, one of the Latin  American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand  out a record 11 million condoms to prevent the spread of the  disease during its erotically charged Carnival festival when  casual sex rises.
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South Africa is to help Mozambique cope with the aftermath of a cyclone which hit the country on Thursday.
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Meng Lin, who is HIV positive and an  AIDS activist in Beijing, relies on friends to send him drugs  from overseas every month -- medicine he needs to stay alive.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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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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Brazil will break the patents next year on between three and five foreign drugs used in the anti-AIDS cocktail central to its innovative program to fight the illness, the government said on Tuesday.
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FRANCISTOWN, Botswana -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not.
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The head of the World Bank said on Monday he was worried very high rates of HIV/AIDS infections and related tuberculosis in Mozambique could spread as new transport routes are developed to meet growing economic activity.
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Crude paintings of women and rows of dimly lit bedrooms make clear the purpose of a shabby building just off a main road in this sprawling city. But for the next year, this brothel will have another function as well: testing a drug that could help stop HIV infections before they begin.
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Brazil will break patents on some foreign AIDS drugs next year to escape the control of multinational firms holding developing countries &quot;hostage,&quot; the government said on Tuesday.
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PRETORIA -- The global fight against AIDS has more than $6 billion to spend this year, employs hundreds of thousands of dedicated workers, and now has unparalleled attention from world leaders.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil will break patents on  some foreign AIDS drugs next year to escape the control of  multinational firms holding developing countries "hostage," the  government said on Tuesday.
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An industrial city northwest of Moscow struggles as AIDS hits a broader population.