Gazette opinion: US must change AIDS research policies
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Earlier this month, the World AIDS Day observance focused on how this epidemic has killed, sickened and threatened women and girls around the globe.
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WASHINGTON The US has been sending a questionable AIDS drug to Africa, despite internal government warnings that the medicine could hurt or even kill patients who take it.
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Routine, universal testing for the AIDS virus as recommended by a federal agency will likely cost the United States $900 million, but will pay off in terms of lives and money, experts said on Wednesday.
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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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Countries with HIV epidemics should test all health centre attenders unless they 'opt out', say experts.
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The government's chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a U.S.-funded drug study to change its conclusions and delete negative information. Later, he ordered the research resumed over the objections of his staff, documents show.
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The Dec. 1 editorial &quot;A Female Pandemic?&quot; sent the wrong message. From the headline that seemed to question data showing that HIV-AIDS has become a female pandemic to the conclusion that highlighting the predicament
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Experts at a seminar yesterday urged the government to incorporate the HIV/Aids issue into primary and secondary textbooks to create awareness about the disease at the grassroots level.
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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS climbing sharply worldwide, public-health experts and activists this week urged policymakers to go beyond the ABCs of AIDS prevention
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Don't expect your doctor to nudge you toward an HIV test anytime soon, despite bold new government advice that most Americans be tested for the AIDS virus.
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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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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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The doctor rejected his staff&#39;s assessment that Uganda site was not qualified to continue drug research. By John Solomon. WASHINGTON -- The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US
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China is to allow a critic of its HIV/Aids policy to receive an award in the US - a reversal of its earlier stance.
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The risks of HIV/Aids are being overstated, a former World Health Organization expert says.
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A series of articles critical of past trials of an important AIDS drug has created a furor in Africa, causing many public health experts to worry that some countries will stop using
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NEW YORK  - It takes more than just passing along good information to stop the spread of HIV, a new US-government-backed study on HIV/AIDS prevention programs has found.