AP: U.S. Officials Knew of AIDS Drug Risks
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top U.S. health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands of severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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The world&#39;s two most populous nations have promised to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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An HIV drug is being recalled after it was found to be contaminated with a substance that could cause cancer, the medicines watchdog said tonight.
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Description: A Bush administration task force has raised serious doubts about whether drugs imported from abroad can be made safe.
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The AIDS virus can be passed from an infected mother to her baby if she pre-chews the child's food as sometimes occurs in developing countries, U.S. government scientists said on Wednesday.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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New US guidelines say rape victims and others exposed to Aids should get anti-retroviral drugs.
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The risks of HIV/Aids are being overstated, a former World Health Organization expert says.
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Scientists working for the government failed to tell the Bush Administration about problems concerning the use of medication being sent to Africa to treat the HIV virus.
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Most gay and bisexual men infected with HIV in the United States are taking steps to reduce the chances of passing on the deadly virus to their sex partners, according to a federal study released on Thursday.
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New federal numbers put the number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year close to 50 percent higher than previous estimates, activist groups and some media reported, but federal officials denied on Sunday that the data was finished yet.
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The Bush administration&#39;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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Zimbabwe on Thursday received 15 million dollars worth of anti-retroviral drugs from the United States government to bolster its fight against HIV and AIDS, officials announced.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a  disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil  confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an HIV antiretroviral drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug&#39;s testing and effect on pregnant women.
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The AIDS virus invaded the United States in about 1969 from Haiti, carried most likely by a single infected immigrant who set the stage for it to sweep the world in a tragic epidemic, scientists said on Monday.