Drug cuts Aids toll in African children by half
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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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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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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the art drugs have succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization will report tomorrow.
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South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.
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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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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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NEW YORK, Sep 16 (IPS) - With HIV-infected children dying much faster than  adults â shockingly, one-half by their second birthday â doctors  are scrambling to design new treatment protocols that work even  in the most resource-poor settings.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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More infants die in sub-Saharan Africa now than a decade ago, largely because HIV/Aids has reversed advances in public health, the UN children&#39;s agency Unicef reports today.
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More than a year after the South African government decided to offer low-cost antiretroviral treatment to  everyone with AIDS, only about one out of every 50 AIDS patients who are medically ready for antiretrovirals receives them from the public health system, said researchers.
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Health experts meeting in Ethiopia say combined efforts to fight the HIV virus and tuberculosis could save the lives of up to a half-million Africans every year.
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The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.
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A low-cost antibiotic which has performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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Zimbabwe now has the world's highest percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in every four children having lost at least one parent to the disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.
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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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Giving Africa&#39;s HIV-positive children a cheap antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate, research shows. The Medical Research Council trial in Zambia was stopped early when it became obvious how effective daily co-trimoxazole treatment was.
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Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs have succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization will report tomorrow.