Oxfam urges Thailand to keep generic drugs programme
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British aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday urged Thailand's new government not to scrap a controversial generic drugs programme, which provides cheaper, copycat medicines to the poor.
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A critical shortage of healthcare workers and restrictions on prescribing life-saving drugs are crippling the war on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
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GENEVA: Giving a severe blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available for the killer disease, the World Health Organisation has said that Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the United Nation&#39;s approved list.
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Thailand approves production of cheap versions of patented anti-Aids and heart  drugs, angering manufacturers.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which could kill millions of people.
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Oxfam urges Tony Blair to make the fight against African poverty a priority for his time left in office.
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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of  its generic antiretroviral drugs from the WHO's list of  approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests,  the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Ranbaxy, one of India's leading drug companies, is seeking US drug authority approval for two of it s generic Aids treatments
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said  on Friday that despite new research indicating some viral  resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its "drug of choice" for  protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu  pandemic.
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Cheap drugs will not control the world's spiralling rates of HIV alone and poverty must be tackled, a charity warns.
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Generic medications used to treat other disorders may also be able to stop a fatal viral infection that&#39;s nearly untreatable right now and that&#39;s become increasingly common among AIDS patients.
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TORONTO (CP) - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus
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Improving access to medicine could save 10 million lives a year globally, a U.N. health envoy said on Thursday, recommending that drugmakers support research for neglected diseases and cut prices in poor countries.
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Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. announced on Thursday a reduction in the price of its HIV-AIDS drug, Efavirenz, for poor countries and those hit hard by the disease, including Thailand.
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Collin Levey&#39;s assertion that generic AIDS medicines are unsafe and ineffective (&quot;Cheap drugs help no one if they&#39;re not effective,&quot; Times guest column, Nov. 12) is deliberately misleading.
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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Thailand has made substantial progress on the health of women and children, but needs to provide more education on preventing HIV and close the health gap between rich and poor, a UNICEF study found Friday.