African AIDS victims fret over India patent case
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AIDS patients line up at dawn outside a small medical center in one of Kenya's teeming slums.
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India's new $2,500 Nano just may change the lives of millions of the world's poor. But some worry it could also complicate environmental problems
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Wangari Maathai has made a typically combative start to her first full day as a Nobel laureate, defending a recent suggestion that the HIV virus might have been made in a laboratory as a plot against Africans.
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A British colonial era law in India  that criminalizes homosexuality is "not acceptable" and  scrapping it is "fundamental" to the fight against AIDS, the  country's top official leading efforts to end the disease said.
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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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The effect of Aids has started to hit South African firms&#39; profits, a survey suggests, with mining and manufacturing the worst affected.
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Cape Town - An Indian pharmaceutical company has withdrawn 10 of its generic Aids drugs citing flaws in the research, the Science and Development Network reports.
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BOMBAY, India  - India, home to the world's second  largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin  human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a  research institute said Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, and Mauritius will be the initial countries for the Indian government's $1 billion Pan Africa E-network project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union (AU). The project aims to develop Africa's information and communication technologies by eventually connecting all of the 53 African countries to a satellite and fiber-optic network. To launch first in Ethiopia, the project is seen by some as Africa's biggest ICT project ever, with online education and telemedicine programs expected to extend ICT infrastructure to rural areas and other underserved communities. India hopes the investment will help it to sell more telecoms gear to Africa, including VSATs (very small aperture terminals), as well as IT services for telemedicine and other social applications. It has said it wants to make inroads into Africa's ICT markets before China steps up its investments there. The telemedicine network will be used to share knowledge from Indian doctors with their African counterparts through online training programs, River Wallang, the Indian High commissioner to Zambia, said in an interview last month in Lusaka. The education network will allow similar information sharing, he said. Africa faces several challenges to building out its ITC infrastructure, including nonexistent or low capacity national and international communications backbones, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa said recently. âAfrica needs nothing less than the development of broadband infrastructure if the continent is to move together with the rest of the world,â he said, at an event to launch the cellZ network (mobile phone service provider) in Zambia's western province last month. The Africa Development Bank has also announced plans to invest $1 billion in the continent's telecommunication and energy infrastructures. The E-network project was first announced by Indian president Abdul Kalam in South Africa in 2004. In October 2005, the Indian government and the Africa Union signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize the project. The AU, in Addis Ababa, is an organization chartered to accelerate economic development and peace in Africa. The Indian government has already established tele-education and telemedicine hubs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. It will establish a hub in Africa to act as the main contact point between Africa and India and oversee the delivery of services. ICT has been identified as the main growth area in India-Africa trade relations, Erastus Mwencha, secretary general for The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), said recently.
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The family of a pregnant Memphis, Tenn., woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS drug in a US clinical trial is suing the government, several hospitals, and the maker of the medicine.
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Estimates for the number of people in India with the HIV/Aids figures could be greatly exaggerated, a leading Aids worker says.
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AIDS experts yesterday issued chilling warnings that India, China and Russia were on the brink of epidemics to parallel those in Africa.
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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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Mobile phones are being harnessed to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa under a new $10-million scheme announced on Tuesday with the backing of leading companies and the U.S. government.
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A Canadian AIDS group said yesterday it is unfortunate that the winner of the Nobel Peace Price, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, had depicted the deadly virus as a biological weapon invented by the West to wipe out Africans.
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Indian scientists on Monday began the country's first human clinical trials of a vaccine designed to prevent AIDS.
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South African AIDS campaigner Zackie Achmat knows he's a long shot for the Nobel Peace Prize, but says his nomination is already a victory for the millions of people around the world battling the epidemic.