Brazil Plans to Break Patents on Foreign AIDS Drugs
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil will break the patents  next year on between three and five foreign drugs used in the  anti-AIDS cocktail central to its innovative program to fight  the illness, the government said on Tuesday.
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President George Bush has asked the US Congress to set aside $30bn for the global fight against HIV/Aids.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil, one of the Latin  American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand  out a record 11 million condoms to prevent the spread of the  disease during its erotically charged Carnival festival when  casual sex rises.
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HIV-infected pregnant women in Guangzhou are expected to receive free medication in a government move to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
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BERKELEY, Calif. -- The University of California at Berkeley and the government of Samoa have agreed to split profits from any AIDS drug researchers develop from a rainforest tree.
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Another Indian generic drug manufacturer, Hetero Drugs, has withdrawn six of its anti-AIDS medicines from the World Health Organisation&#39;s (WHO) prequalification list.
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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 concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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The Brazilian government is facing criticism from Latin American countries for its failure to abandon the production of cluster bombs.
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The supply of low-cost generic versions of cancer and AIDS treatments for the developing world could be blocked if Novartis wins a legal challenge to Indiaâs patent law.
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The move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
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Brazil, one of the Latin American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand out a record 11 million condoms to prevent the spread of the disease during its erotically charged Carnival festival when casual sex rises.
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U.S. drugs giant Abbott Laboratories  said it would stop launching new medicines in Thailand in  protest at the army-backed government&#39;s move to override  international drug patents.
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A new class of HIV drugs will help doctors treat patients who have become resistant to treatment.
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China will expand a pilot program that aims to stop the transmission of AIDS from mother to child, curbing the rapid increase of new born infants infected with HIV.
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Brazil, the world's fourth biggest market for pirated goods, must do more to fight piracy of international products which cost companies billions of dollars annually, the U.S. Attorney General said on Friday.
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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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India is planning to re-strategize its HIV/AIDS control and treatment program after a fresh independent evaluation, the Indo-Asian News Service quoted Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss as saying here Thursday.