UN: 700,000 AIDS Patients Get Drugs, Funds Short
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany -- The world's leading industrialized nations yesterday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, mainly in Africa, but human rights groups termed it an insufficient commitment and part of a pattern of unfulfilled promises.
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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 Bush administration&#39;s global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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More than a third of  patients in Africa die or stop taking HIV drugs within two years of starting, research shows.
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The world&#039;s richest countries are  falling short on pledges made last year to provide Africa with  life-saving AIDS drugs, expanded trade and increased aid, said  rocker-activist Bono.
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A World Health Organization initiative to provide 3 million HIV/AIDS patients with antiretroviral drugs by the end of 2005 will likely miss its target, said Director-General Dr.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving life-saving drug treatment in poor nations rose 60 percent in the past six months.
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French President Jacques Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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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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A shortage of doctors and nurses in Africa is now one of the biggest obstacles to providing life-saving drugs to AIDS patients, condemning untold numbers to an unnecessary death, a new report says.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - French President Jacques  Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS  Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number of  patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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A four-drug cocktail isn't any better for treating newly diagnosed HIV infection than the standard three-drug regimen, according to a study that followed 765 patients for three years.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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Drugs are no good without food in the  fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and  the essential role of proper nutrition has been forgotten, the  United Nations World Food Program said on Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - An ambitious initiative to provide life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs to three million people with HIV/AIDS by the end of next year likely won&#39;t meet its target, the director general of the World Health Organization has admitted.
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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.