Low-Key Recall of AIDS Drug Hits Worldâs Poor
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Roche Pharmaceuticals has come under fire over its recall of an AIDS drug heavily used in the developing world.
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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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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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A U.S.-funded study on an AIDS drug was so poorly conducted that it potentially put the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies in Uganda at risk, a government whistleblower said Tuesday.
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After years of struggling to make anti-retrovirals available in the developing world, medical authorities have been startled to discover that many people in the advanced stages of AIDS are reluctant to take them -- or accept the treatment only when death is so near that the medication can no longer reverse the slide.
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The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
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Criticism of condoms and restrictions on access to them are undercutting the fight against HIV/AIDS in countries ranging from Nigeria to Peru to the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday.
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For each sub-Saharan African who was placed on anti-AIDS drugs last year, experts say, five more were newly infected.
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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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Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization says a massive shortfall of a key malaria drug will last well into next year, leaving poor countries with about half of what they need to fight the disease.
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HIV drug Viracept has been recalled because "human error" led to a higher than normal level of a chemical which can cause cancer.  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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SHANGHAI, China Sept. 15, 2004 - With AIDS making disastrous new inroads in the Asian-Pacific region, World Health Organization experts are evaluating progress toward providing anti-AIDS drugs to 3 million
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New Delhi: The World Health Organisation(WHO) has said that it would consider re-enlisting the remaining three of the five banned aids drugs manufactured in India if the laboratories producing them meet the set international standards.
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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 severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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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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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.