Brazilians threaten to breach patents on Aids drugs
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The Brazilian government is threatening to break several patents of international pharmaceutical companies in order to produce cheaper anti-AIDS drugs locally.
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Brazil says it intends to copy patented anti-Aids drugs without permission from next year.
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Over the next few months, officials in two US cities and several other countries will begin testing whether a popular AIDS drug can protect healthy people against HIV infection.
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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 severe reactions including deaths, government documents show.
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The reappearance of dictatorship-era documents relating to the treatment of political prisoners &#151; papers that a top government official said were destroyed decades ago &#151; has resurrected an issue many Brazilians would prefer to forget.
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FOZ DO IGUACU, Brazil -- Geraldo Pereira has heard the rumors before, the whispers that cast a shadow on the reputation of this border town. So a bit of exasperation tinges his tone when the questions surface again.
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Political analysts are uncertain if BrazilÂs president, made vulnerable by another corruption scandal, will obtain the majority he needs to avoid a runoff.
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China, India and Russia are on the brink of an Africa-style Aids epidemic that could devastate the global economy and international security, the head of the UN Aids project has warned.
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The world's largest drug firm reports strong  profits despite a fall in Viagra sales  but  it warns that next year's profits will be hit by the expiry of  patents.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  called on Thailand to revise its efforts to provide cheap  medicines to people with AIDS over concerns that the country  could be undermining global rules on intellectual property.
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Some HIV/AIDS treatment groups have expressed &quot;alarm&quot; about a possible backlash against the use of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine among pregnant women to reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission because of a recent series of Associated
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San Francisco has petitioned  federal regulators to warn that the anti-impotence drugs like  Viagra use could increase the risk of sexually transmitted  disease and HIV, officials said on Monday.
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Amnesty International warns of an imminent gang war in two Rio slums unless police in the Brazilian city act.
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The controversy surrounding GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia mounted Wednesday as a medical expert prepared to tell lawmakers the British drug maker threatened him with legal action when he first raised questions about the treatment's safety.
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A doctor retained by the World Bank to examine a program to combat the spread of HIV in India has been warning officials for months that defective testing kits could be putting people at risk.
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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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The excitement over a novel class of drugs being developed to fight HIV has been dampened by fears they could pose serious safety risks, including the possibility they might actually speed the progression of AIDS.