WHO, Boehringer Back German AIDS Drug Despite Fears
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FRANKFURT/JOHANNESBURG  - The World Health  Organization on Thursday gave its backing to Viramune, an  anti-AIDS drug from Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim, despite a  U.S regulatory warning that the medicine could cause liver  damage.
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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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GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday defended trials of HIV drugs in orphans, saying "clinical trials involving children and orphans were legal and not unusual."
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Weeks before President Bush announced a plan to protect African babies from AIDS, top US health officials were warned that research on the key drug was flawed and may have underreported thousands
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The world&#39;s two most populous nations have promised to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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WASHINGTON - A National Institutes of Health official said Tuesday that an AIDS drug at the center of a controversial federal report has prevented thousands of infants from getting HIV.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc Tuesday defended trials of AIDS/HIV drugs in children in care homes, saying clinical studies involving children were legal and not unusual.
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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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Scientists at an HIV/AIDS vaccine conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, this week called for more collaboration in developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine and said that such a vaccine is at least a decade away, the Financial Times reports (Williams, Financial Times
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa.
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat.
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Two ethical controversies have flared into life on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence in their mix of programmes to fight AIDS and British leader Tony Blair lashed at religious bans on condoms.
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Health officials kept mum on flaws in research for nevirapine, sent to Africa to protect newborns. The drug: Nevirapine, an AIDS drug pronounced Nee-VERA-peen, is made by Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.
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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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Clinical trial data released by pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim at the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Washington, DC, on its experimental protease inhibitor tipranavir show that the drug is effective
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"We said that on behalf of the countries of the G-8, that we are aware of our obligations and we would like to fulfill the promises that we entered into and we are going to do that."  Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed Friday on a $60 billion package to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa and warned Iran over its disputed nuclear program, closing out a summit of the world's richer nations.But a deal could not be reached on the the independence-seeking Serbian province of Kosovo during three days of talks at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm.About half of the $60 billion was pledged earlier by the U.S., and other nations will contribute the rest, Germany's development minister said. Read more