Aids Drugs Needed for HIV Positive Children
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The South African government&#39;s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in KwaZulu-Natal province has raised fears among AIDS activists that children&#39;s rights to health care and life are being violated.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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WASHINGTON - A National Institutes of Health official said Tuesday that an AIDS drug at the center of a controversial federal report has prevented thousands of infants from getting HIV.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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LONDON - All children with HIV in developing countries should take a low-cost antibiotic because it could nearly halve the death rate, researchers say.
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As many as 7,000 babies are born HIV-positive in Lesotho every year -- more than double the number two years ago, according to a joint report by the government and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Using drugs to prevent HIV infection could prevent as many as 3 million new cases in Africa if it was done right, researchers predicted on Tuesday.
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Zimbabwe faces the challenge of ensuring that people infected with HIV/AIDS get access to anti-retroviral drugs, Health and Child Welfare Minister David Parirenyatwa has said.
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[LUSAKA] Africa&#39;s scientific community should develop standards to guide research on microbicides - substances that kill or block the HIV virus â-aid participants at a meeting on vaginal microbicides held last week (17-19 November) by the Southern
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Food and Drug Administration is giving hope to children with Leukemia that don&#39;t respond to traditional treatments.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000 from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday, but warned much more needed to be done.
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At least 15 percent of babies born in Lesotho each year are HIV-positive, the government and the UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) have said.
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All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say.
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An HIV-positive pregnant woman enrolled in a NIH study examining the ability of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission died of liver failure that likely was caused by the drug.
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About a quarter of the people diagnosed HIV positive so far this year are women and children. The Aids Epidemiology Group at Otago University says of the 108 HIV positive cases to the end of September, 23 were women and four were children.