Tag Archives: AIDS/HIV

Population Action International: U.S. Abortion Gag Rule Undermines Health Care Around the World

Population Action International released a report in September charging that the U.S.’s global gag rule on abortion is undermining health care efforts in a number of countries. The gag rule bars any monies being given to family planning agencies that … Continue reading

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UN Official Wars AIDS Crisis Could Wreck Africa’s Future

Speaking at a September AIDS conference in Kenya, UN AIDS Program director Michel Sidibe warned that, if left unchecked, the AIDS epidemic threatens to become a catastrophe that will wreck Africa’s future. Sidibe’s speech reinforced the findings of a UN … Continue reading

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Study Suggests Cheaper, More Effect Method to Prevent HIV Transmission to Newborns

Researchers at John Hopkins University and Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda, recently reported in the Lancet on the results of their tests of an alternative treatment to prevent children born to HIV-infected mothers from contracting the disease themselves. Typically, AZT … Continue reading

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World Bank Report Warns of Impending Central & Eastern European AIDS Crises

The World Bank released a report in September highlighting the increasing rate of HIV infection in Central and Eastern Europe, and warned that if governments there do not do more to deal with the problem, it could turn into a … Continue reading

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Do Africans Follow Anti-HIV Drug Regimen Better Than Americans?

One of the long-standing arguments against the use of anti-retrovirals to treat the AIDS crisis in Africa goes like this: African countries like the health infrastructure to ensure that patients will consistently take anti-HIV drugs (which, of course, have a … Continue reading

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Indian Prime Minister Says Country Needs to Pay More Attention to HIV Crisis

Other than South Africa, no other country in the world has more people afflicted with HIV than India. Yet so far tackling the AIDS epidemic has not been a high priority in that country. At an AIDS conference featuring 1,000 … Continue reading

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South Africa Reverses Course — Will Distributed Anti-HIV Drugs

South Africa’s cabinet met in a special session in August and decided to finally distributed anti-HIV drugs . . . after it finishes a “detailed operational plan” to handle the distribution of such drugs. The decision was announced to coincide … Continue reading

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AIDS In Africa

Earlier this month someone in South Africa leaked an unpublished government report on the anti-AIDS drugs. Although the South African government has refused to buy or distribute anti-AIDS drugs due to a host of objections, the leaked report estimated that … Continue reading

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Mandela’s Pathetic Backpedaling on AIDS Drugs Testing

Reuters reports that Nelson Mandela has backpedaled on testing of AIDS drugs and is now endorsing Thabo Mbeki’s ridiculous position that further safety testing of AIDS drugs is necessary because, as Reuters paraphrases his position, . . . conditions in … Continue reading

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Was Uganda’s AIDS Success a Fraud?

In June 2002 Uganda was hailed for its apparently amazing success at lowering HIV infections. President Yoweri Museveni announced that the rate of HIV infection was down from 30 percent in 1990 to just 6.1 percent in 2001. But this … Continue reading

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