Eighty Scientists Condemn South Africa's AIDS Policies
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 6 -- More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released Wednesday.
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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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Johannesburg - The African National Congress carried an article in its online journal on Friday accusing top United States officials of treating Africans like guinea pigs and telling lies to promote the sales of a key Aids drug.
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NAIROBI: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, yesterday reiterated her claim that the Aids virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
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HIV/AIDS is placing a heavy burden on the elderly in South Africa&#39;s Mpumalanga province, a study by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has revealed.
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A South African doctor faces censure for citing Aids on a death certificate against family wishes.
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South Africa's health minister took another controversial foray into the AIDS debate Thursday by questioning international medical studies that say circumcision helps reduce HIV infections in men.
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With almost 25 million Africans  infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million  deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies  for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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A study by South African medical journal warned Tuesday that the country needs more nurses as the number HIV/AIDS infections rises among health care workers.
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WASHINGTON -- Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research in Uganda on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported severe reactions, including deaths, government documents show.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried that news reports about an aids drug may prompt some governments to ban the medication.
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Federal officials involved in a U.S.-funded study in Uganda endangered the lives of hundreds of patients testing an AIDS drug because of careless and negligent research practices, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
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Group of Eight leaders called Sunday for more AIDS funding to improve monitoring and to give more people access to treatment.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 December (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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LONDON -- Organizations concerned with reproductive health and sex education sharply criticized the Bush administration yesterday, saying that its policies are contributing to the worldwide AIDS pandemic and the deaths of women during childbirth and from unsafe abortions.
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The African National Congress, South Africa&#39;s ruling party, has accused US government of promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug &quot;nevirapine&quot; in this country.