Zimbabwe receives 15m dollars of AIDS drugs from US
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Zimbabwe on Thursday received 15 million dollars worth of anti-retroviral drugs from the United States government to bolster its fight against HIV and AIDS, officials announced.
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Zimbabwe will put 40,000 more people on life saving anti-retroviral drugs by the end of the year despite an economic crisis that has hobbled the country's health care, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Cape Town - Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former president Nelson Mandela and United States rock star Bono, according to the South African government
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A VITAL project to prevent the spread of HIV within the African community has been given almost a quarter of a million pounds.
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The United States is challenging other countries to pay their share of the world&#39;s premier AIDS-fighting fund by the end of September or lose $120 million in US cash.
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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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When a month&#39;s dose of medicines for HIV treatment still cost around Rp 8 million (US$860) in 1997, Febri, her husband Toro and their son Sandy (not their real names), who had all contracted the HIV virus, could not afford to buy medicines for the whole
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The families of hundreds of Libyan children with HIV will receive more than $400 million under a deal expected to help free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting them, a source said on Monday.
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News reports say top US health officials knew that a key AIDS drug President Bush has promoted for use in Africa can cause severe side effects, including death.
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WASHINGTON The US has been sending a questionable AIDS drug to Africa, despite internal government warnings that the medicine could hurt or even kill patients who take it.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has accused US health officials of using Africans as &quot;guinea pigs&quot; and covering up possible adverse effects of a drug used by pregnant women infected with the AIDS virus.
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The United Nations was dealt another blow last month: The hasty approval of cheap, untested AIDS drugs by one of its agencies has likely caused new strains of HIV to emerge in the developing world, according to the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
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The United States Friday welcomed the acquittal by Zimbabwe&#39;s high court of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on treason charges.
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In his 2003 State of the Union speech, President Bush said to broad acclaim that he&#39;d ask Congress to commit $15 billion, including $10 billion in new money, over five years to fight AIDS in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
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The head of the Bush administration's global AIDS plan said he is taking steps that would permit the United States to give more money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria this year than previously planned.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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The $15 billion relief plan aims to help 1.5 million HIV patients live longer, healthier lives.