Activists hail Thai move to make generic AIDS drug
374985
Thailand, faced with ballooning costs for HIV-AIDS drugs, has issued its first compulsory license to make a cheap version of a foreign-made drug and fired a shot across the bow of big pharmaceutical companies.
722344
TWO generic drugs made by the Indian company Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated to the World Health Organisation&#39;s (WHO&#39;s) recommended list six months after being removed, an official said yesterday.
417984
SHANGHAI, China Sept. 15, 2004 - With AIDS making disastrous new inroads in the Asian-Pacific region, World Health Organization experts are evaluating progress toward providing anti-AIDS drugs to 3 million
548812
Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
664450
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.
245726
Two generic drug products by the Indian drug maker Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated on the World Health Organization's recommended list six months after being removed, a senior WHO official said on Tuesday.
23254
Thailand's top pharmaceutical industry group warned the military-installed government against allowing more generic versions of drugs after its approval of two such medications last month.
188597
A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretroviral medications from the World Health Organization&#39;s list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially
486561
Thailand, which has stunned major drug makers by overriding patents, will review the compulsory licenses announced by the previous military-appointed government, Health Minister Chaiya Sasomsap said on Thursday.
495562
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.
351344
BANGKOK, Thailand Sept. 30, 2004 - Millions of volunteers led by emergency teams fanned out across Thailand on Thursday in a new drive to fight bird flu after the prime minister gave officials 30 days to eradicate the epidemic.
762209
Thailand's move to expand its generic drug programme has jolted the pharmaceutical sector, but has also sparked fears among investors that the government could now change the rules for other industries, analysts said.
601220
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.
514915
The World Health Organization (WHO) said  it would continue recommending use of the Viramune drug in AIDS  patients despite a U.S. regulatory warning, as the benefits  were greater than toxicity problems.
322591
Two competing pharmaceutical companies say they are going to work together to develop the first once-a-day pill to treat HIV - the virus that causes AIDS.
137102
Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
517559
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 concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.