&#39;Children need specialised Aids drugs&#39;
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations Children&#39;s Fund released its annual report that showed that at least one billion children, half of the world&#39;s population of children, suffer from poverty, violent conflict and the scourge of AIDS.
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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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Medecins Sans Frontieres has criticised pharmaceutical companies for failing to offer suitable life-extending drugs for children with HIV/AIDS in poor countries.
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PRETORIA -- More than 1 billion children suffer from poverty, war, and HIV/AIDS, a new UNICEF report says, indicating that gains in reducing child deaths in the 1980s and '90s have stalled in the past decade.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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A low-cost antibiotic should be given to all children with HIV in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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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 new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.
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GENEVA  - Children with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
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A lack of drugs adapted to the needs of children with HIV/AIDS means that many of them are dying needlessly, says the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
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JOHANNESBURG, 9 December (IRIN) - The HIV/AIDS pandemic has already created millions of orphans throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but the worst is yet to come, warned Per Engebak, UN Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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About 1.2 million people in countries hard hit by AIDS are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major U.S. and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday.
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Researchers should do more to tailor drugs specifically for children, the government is set to say on Tuesday.
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A CHEAP and widely available antibiotic could be used to cut deaths from Aids-related diseases in African children by more than 40 per cent, government-backed scientists said yesterday.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an HIV antiretroviral drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to new concerns about the drug&#39;s testing and effect on pregnant women.