Clinton launches kids' HIV drugs
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Former US President Bill Clinton's foundation and Indian drugs companies in new deal to help HIV children.
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Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that cheap anti-AIDS drugs were no magic bullet for ending the epidemic ravaging Africa, and that the continent needs better overall health care.
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Ethiopia has began giving free doses of life-prolonging drugs to about 14,000 HIV-infected Ethiopians in a U.S.-funded program, the government said Tuesday.
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A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The low-cost antibiotic Co-trimoxazole reduced mortality rates of HIV-positive children in Africa by nearly 50 percent, according to a new study in The Lancet.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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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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Former US president Bill Clinton said his foundation had secured a deal for Zambia to access cheap HIV/AIDS drugs, thereby helping the poor southern African nation save millions of dollars.
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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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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was made an honorary chief in Papua New Guinea on Sunday after signing an agreement to help combat HIV-AIDS in the South Pacific island nation.
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Five nations launched an  initiative on Tuesday to raise at least $300 million next year  to buy generic drugs at steep volume discounts to fight AIDS,  tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries.
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The Bush administration'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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A cheap antibiotic drug has almost halved the rate of AIDS-related deaths in African children, reveals a new study. The antibiotic - co-trimoxazole - does not combat HIV but it prevents secondary infections
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GlaxoSmithKline will be accused this week of backing drug trials in the US in which underprivileged children were forced to test Aids treatments against their will.
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New US guidelines say rape victims and others exposed to Aids should get anti-retroviral drugs.
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Former President Clinton announced Thursday that two Indian pharmaceutical companies had agreed to cut the prices of HIV and AIDS treatment for children, making the lifesaving drugs far more accessible worldwide.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;