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| July 5, 2005 WHO/AFRO plans to designate 2006 as “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”. Brazzaville, 16 June 2005 -- The WHO Regional Office for Africa plans to designate 2006 as the “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”. #http://www.afro.who.int# |
| August 14, 2004 Donor Mistrust Worsens AIDS in Zimbabwe MABVUKU, Zimbabwe - Edson Muchenjekwa says he spent three weeks persuading Alista Bhero to overcome her rage at her husband, Khemist, for infecting her with H.I.V., which has rendered her all but immobile at 42. He does not intend to waste her time discussing a treatment. #http://nytimes.com/2004/08/12/international/africa/12zimbabwe.html# |
| July 3, 2004 Good news for Aids drugs PARIS - A single dose of three copycat drugs is as effective in combating the Aids virus as the expensive triple cocktail of branded drugs made by pharmaceutical giants, a study says. #http://www.suntimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1088744111.asp# |
| July 3, 2004 World Health Assembly puts focus on HIV/AIDS treatment This year's World Health Assembly (WHA; Geneva, May 1722) agreed as a matter of priority that governments should beef-up their national health systems to ensure they deliver concrete HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care. |
| June 23, 2004 Knowledge about AIDS and HIV Risk-related Sexual Behavior among Nigerian Naval Personnel The epidemic of HIV continues to grow in Nigeria. Personnel in the military are at increased risk of HIV infection. Although HIV-risk related sexual behavior of Nigerian police officers has been studied, little is known about the sexual behavior of their counterparts in the Navy. This study describes knowledge of AIDS, and HIV-risk sexual behavior of naval personnel in Lagos Nigeria. BMC Public Health |
| April 9, 2004 Stronger health systems for more effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care Increased resources for HIV prevention and care may have little impact if health systems in developing countries remain weak. This is the conclusion of an analysis by the Belgian Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Population Council and University of the Witwatersrand. |
| April 9, 2004 How can employers look after their HIV-infected workers? Many large employers in southern Africa are considering strategies to offset the impact of high rates of HIV infection in their workforces. |
| April 9, 2004 HIV/AIDS and the demand for primary school places How many children will be eligible for primary school in the next 10 years? How will HIV/AIDS affect these numbers and the ability of children to attend school? Researchers from the UK University of Liverpool investigate the potential impact of the epidemic on the demand for primary education in Uganda and Tanzania. |
| April 9, 2004 Knowing and doing? HIV awareness and sexual behaviour in South Africa An HIV prevention programme was introduced in a South African mining community in order to investigate changes in sexual behaviour and the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections. |
| March 18, 2004 ARVs bring hope to Pondoland An unconventional approach to health provision at the Medicins Sans Frontieres first rural HIV/AIDS programme in Lusikisiki has yielded impressive results. #http://www.health-e.org.za# |
| January 9, 2004 Africa isn't dying of Aids The headline figures are horrible: almost 30 million Africans have HIV/Aids. But, says Rian Malan, the figures are computer-generated estimates and they appear grotesquely exaggerated when set against population statistics |
| November 6, 2003 Combating Stigma And Discrimination Is Vital To Improving Access To HIV/AIDS Care, Say UNAIDS And WHO 40% of countries have yet to adopt anti-discrimination laws to protect people living with HIV/AIDS Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS must be eradicated as a critical component of expanding access to treatment and care, according to UNAIDS and WHO. UNAIDS |
| October 11, 2003 Postexposure HIV Prophylaxis Effective for Newborns Postexposure HIV prophylaxis is effective for new- borns, according to the results of a study published in the Oct. 11 issue of The Lancet. The investigators suggest that nevirapine and zidovudine may protect newborns whose mothers missed opportu- nities for prenatal prophylaxis. AFRONETS |
| September 22, 2003 Speech by Stephen Lewis at the Official Opening of 13th ICASA Address by Stephen Lewis UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa at the Official Opening of the XIIIth International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa Nairobi, 21 Septem- ber 2003 5:00 p.m. Afronets |
| September 2, 2003 WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL CALLS FOR "URGENT TREATMENT" FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS IN AFRICA HIV/AIDS is a "catastrophe" and people affected need urgent access to treatment said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in his speech to health ministers from the WHO African Region (AFRO). Today, Dr Lee made his first address to the WHO African Regional Committee, which meets annually to review and set public health policy directions for the 46 countries in the AFRO Region. WHO Africa Region |
| August 20, 2003 How AIDS destroys immunity - University of Utah biologist finds HIV gene makes a human gene turn bad A human gene named ATR normally protects people by preventing the replication of cells damaged by radiation or toxic chemicals. Now, Utah and New York researchers have discovered how a gene in the AIDS virus hijacks the human gene and turns it into a weapon that prevents reproduction of immune-system white blood cells, leaving AIDS patients vulnerable to deadly infections and cancer. University of Utah Health Sciences Center |
| July 15, 2003 BOTSWANA, ZAMBIA, UGANDA EMBRACE ACCESS TO ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY FOR PLWHA A number of African countries are instituting measures to improve access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), it emerged at a workshop for health professionals from *17 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa taking place from 7 to 10 July in Harare, Zimbabwe. WHO AFRICA |
| July 15, 2003 EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES URGED TO TARGET 1.4 MILLION PLWHA FOR CARE, TREATMENT BY 2005 The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim Samba, has challenged East and Southern African countries to aspire to reach 1.4 million people or half of the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in need of treatment in the two sub regions with antiretroviral treatment (ART) by the end of 2005. WHO AFRICA |
| July 15, 2003 WORKSHOP ON SCALING UP ACCESS TO CARE AND TREATMENT FOR HIV/AIDS ENDS, ADOPTS RECOMMENDATIONS A workshop on scaling up access to care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in 17 East and Southern African countries ended Thursday in Harare, Zimbabwe, with the adoption of recommendations aimed at achieving universal access to antiretroviral treatment (ART) by people who need it. WHO AFRICA |
| June 27, 2003 Structure of HIV-neutralizing antibody solved A team of scientists whose leaders are funded by the National Institutes of Health has solved the structure of an antibody that is able to neutralize HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Their work is described in the June 27 issue of Science. NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
| June 27, 2003 AIDS, Other Trends Give New Prominence To U.N. Population Division Over the next few months, the U.N. Population Division, which often works behind the scenes, will be marshaling its resources to warn publicly that the future of southern Africa, once a hope for the continent, increasingly rests on one four-letter word: AIDS. U.N. Population Division |
| June 26, 2003 Sources and prices of HIV/AIDS medicines and diagnostic tests - New Edition An updated edition of Sources and Prices of Selected Medicines and Diagnostics for People living with HIV/AIDS will be released today. The report provides market information on 74 reviewed products for the treatment and management of HIV/AIDS from 61 manufacturers. Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy |
| May 20, 2003 NEW REPORT FROM LEADING AIDS EXPERTS DOCUMENTS LARGE GAP BETWEEN HIV PREVENTION NEEDS AND CURRENT EFFORTS Fewer than one in five people at risk of HIV infection today have access to prevention programs, and annual global spending on prevention falls $3.8 billion short of what will be needed by 2005, according to a new report released today by the Global HIV Prevention Working Group. UNAIDS |
| May 2, 2003 HIV NO MATCH FOR MICROBICIDES A microbicide can effectively block vaginal transmission of HIV in an animal model, researchers report in the March issue of Nature Medicine. The results are the first concrete evidence that microbicides can prevent virus attachment and entry into the vagina or rectum. |
| March 15, 2003 Expert group stresses that unsafe sex is primary mode of transmission of HIV in Africa An expert group has reaffirmed that unsafe sexual practices are responsible for the vast majority of HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, and that safer sex promotion must remain the primary feature of prevention programmes in the region. WHO |
| February 28, 2003 Feeding hope: nutrition plays key role in HIV/AIDS care A good diet is one of the simplest means of helping people live with HIV/AIDS and may even help delay the progression of the deadly virus, two UN agencies said today. Living well with HIV/AIDS |
| February 24, 2003 HIV vaccine trial results are an important step forward in developing an effective vaccine, say WHO and UNAIDS 24 February 2003 | GENEVA -- Preliminary results of a large-scale trial of a candidate AIDS vaccine announced today by the US-based biotechnology company VaxGen suggest that it is possible to protect some individuals from HIV infection. The trial of the company’s AIDSVAX vaccine appears to show a protective effect among non-Caucasian populations, especially African Americans, although sample sizes were small. However, for the majority of the participants, who were Caucasians, the effect of the vaccine was minimal. WHO |
| December 18, 2002 Good news at last – HIV rates fall in Uganda Uganda was one of the first African countries to face the AIDS epidemic. Prevention programmes began in the late 1980s with strong political commitment. A study by the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS in Uganda suggests that these efforts have produced a fall in HIV prevalence (the total number of people infected) and incidence (the number of people newly infected each year). Medical Research Council |
| December 18, 2002 Is there a link between herpes and HIV? HIV prevalence varies considerably across Africa. The rates are highest in parts of eastern and southern Africa but generally lower in western Africa. One possible explanation is that male circumcision, most common in the west of the continent, reduces the risk of infection. But could there also be a link with genital ulcer disease (GUD)? London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK |
| December 18, 2002 Curbing mother to child transmission: testing pregnant women for HIV Testing and treating pregnant women for HIV reduces the likelihood of infecting the child. But do women want to know if they have HIV? Researchers with the Medical Research Council programme in Uganda investigated how rural women feel about counselling and testing for HIV during pregnancy. While most women are prepared to undergo testing, they are worried about confidentiality and the behaviour of medical staff Medical Research Council |
| December 12, 2002 New International Coalition aims to expand Global access to HIV/AIDS treatment A new international alliance - the International HIV Treatment Access Coalition (ITAC) - launched today in Geneva and Dakar aims to boost efforts to provide access to antiretroviral drugs to the growing number of people with HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries who need them. International HIV Treatment Access Coalition (ITAC) |
| December 11, 2002 WHO study reveals harsh realities for older persons caring for orphans and people living with AIDS A new WHO report, "Impact of AIDS on older people in Africa”, reveals the harsh realities faced by older persons caring for their HIV-infected adult children and/ or their orphaned grandchildren. The report, based on a case study done in Zimbabwe, highlights the additional stigma faced by older people who care for orphans and people living with AIDS. Impact of AIDS on older people in Africa |
| December 6, 2002 Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS: The first nationally representative study of HIV prevalence has found that 11.4% of South Africans, 4.5 million people, are living with HIV/AIDS. The study, commissioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, was conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE). Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS:South African National HIV Prevalence, Behavioural Risks and Mass Media Household Survey (2002) |
| December 2, 2002 Exploring how communication can combat HIV/AIDS About 95 percent of the 40 million people with HIV/AIDS live in developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia -- the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic. As governments and health officials look for ways to control the spread of the disease in these nations, they shouldn't overlook the influence of communication, according to the authors of a new book. New book explores how communication can combat HIV/AIDS |
| December 2, 2002 Free Trade, Globalization May Be Factors in Spread of AIDS in Americas SEX WORKERS IN BORDER REGIONS POTENTIAL SOURCE FOR HIV/AIDS SPREAD UH Study: The social behavior of sex workers and transportation workers along the U.S. - Mexico border has the potential to spread HIV and AIDS through North and Central America in much the same way the disease has spread through sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new University of Houston study. |
| November 29, 2002 AFRICA: Interview with Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis is the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. He spoke to PlusNews about the crippling impact of HIV/AIDS on women and the "human rights violations" of people living with HIV/AIDS. |
| November 29, 2002 Infection with second strain of HIV compromises treatment Researchers are reporting that a patient undergoing experimental therapy for HIV infection became "superinfected" with a second strain of the virus, which compromised his treatment. Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| November 29, 2002 GLOBAL: IRIN Webspecial on World AIDS Day AIDS threaten our very raison d'etre; our ability to live and our instinct to create life. Little wonder, therefore, that HIV and AIDS are so feared. IRIN World AIDS Day |
| November 27, 2002 ETHIOPIA: Interview with Negatu Mereke, head of the National AIDS Secretariat Negatu Mereke is the head of the National AIDS Secretariat - the Ethiopian government's task force coordinating the fight against AIDS. Here, ahead of World Aids Day, Negatu - who took over the helm of the secretariat in February 2002 - tells IRIN how it is overcoming criticism of incompetence from the World Bank and how it will go about trying to win the war against the virus. |
| November 5, 2002 Young AIDS migrants in southern Africa Many young people in southern Africa engage in AIDS-related migration. What are the patterns of this migration? What are the difficulties facing these children and how do they cope? What can be done to make it easier for them? Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, UK |
| October 29, 2002 Catastrophe or controllable crisis? The impact of the AIDS epidemic on schooling in Africa It is widely believed that children who are directly affected by AIDS are greatly disadvantaged at school and that teachers are a high risk group for HIV infection. Research in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda suggests that the situation is much more complex. Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK |
| October 24, 2002 Combination of HIV/malaria increases complications during pregnancy Women with a combined HIV/malaria infection more frequently experience complications during pregnancy than healthy women. This is revealed in research from Kenya. However, to their surprise the researchers established that HIV-infected mothers with a mild malaria infection less frequently transmit the HIV infection to their children than HIV-infected mothers without malaria. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research |
| October 24, 2002 Multivitamins improve weight gain patterns during pregnancy in HIV- infected women from Tanzania Maternal HIV infection is a particular problem of sub-Saharan Africa, where > 13 million women of childbearing age are infected. Pregnant women who are HIV positive are at serious risk for low birth weight infants or preterm delivery. Article |
| October 21, 2002 Kaisernetwork.org Global HIV/AIDS Webcast In an interview with kaisernetwork.org, Executive Director Richard Feachem and Chairman of the Board Chrispus Kiyonga of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria spoke from Geneva on October 12th following the Global Fund's recent board meeting. Global Fund Interview |
| October 21, 2002 U.N. Team Unveils Strategy To Combat Toll of HIV/AIDS On Education HIV/AIDS is killing teachers faster than they can be trained and threatens to derail efforts by highly infected countries to achieve their Education for All goal of offering primary schooling to every child by 2015. HIV/AIDS and Education: A Strategic Approach, |
| October 8, 2002 New Study suggests how some immune systems control HIV and prevent progression to AIDS Scientists have long thought that in people with an inability to control the progression of HIV to AIDS, the problem was due to a lack of CD8+ T cells (white blood cells able to fight HIV) in contrast to a small a group of people, known as long term nonprogressors, with an apparent immunity to the HIV virus. |
| October 8, 2002 AIDS EPIDEMIC IN ASIA MAY BECOME THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, SAYS UNAIDS "The epidemic in Asia threatens to become the largest in the world," said Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS. "With more than half the world's population, the region must treat AIDS as an issue of regional urgency. The question is no longer whether Asia will have a major epidemic, but rather how massive it will be." UNAIDS |
| September 27, 2002 Scientists Claim to Have Found Family of Proteins That Blocks HIV Replication; Leading HIV Researchers Skeptical A group of researchers led by Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York yesterday announced that they have identified a family of three proteins present in HIV-positive long-term non-progressors that block HIV replication and could reveal a new way to combat the disease. Kaiser Daily Reports |
| September 12, 2002 Study sheds light on cause of an AIDS treatment side effect Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, or HAART, is the standard of care for HIV/AIDS patients and has prolonged the lives of countless persons with the disease. HAART has been associated, however, with the emergence of lipodystrophy syndromes. |
| September 3, 2002 EARTH SUMMIT: Interview with Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director, Peter Piot, is attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to deliver a simple message: until HIV/AIDS is brought under control, "you can forget about sustainable development". He spoke to IRIN about the need for political leadership, and the progress being made by African countries in dealing with the epidemic. |
| August 31, 2002 HIV/AIDS: Piot Backs TRIPS Language, Says Epidemic "Underdiscussed" The United Nations' top HIV/AIDS official expressed support today in an interview with UN Wire for controversial language countries are considering here at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in support of "access to medicines for all" in enforcement of international intellectual property rights. |
| August 30, 2002 UNAIDS Report Says HIV/AIDS Thwarts Sustainable Development Goals Efforts to achieve sustainable development goals in developing nations will be "meaningless" unless HIV/AIDS is "brought under control," UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot said during yesterday's session of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa Kaiser Daily AIDS Reports |
| August 28, 2002 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds research to test diaphragms as HIV prevention tool The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $28 million to test whether the diaphragm can prevent the transmission of HIV, to University of California - San Francisco’s (UCSF) Women's Global Health Imperative (WGHI), directed by Nancy Padian, PhD. The diaphragm will be the first physical barrier tested in a randomized, controlled trial for effectiveness in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV. The study will enroll 4500 women at two sites in South Africa and one in Zimbabwe. University of California - San Francisco |
| August 20, 2002 Scientists report new AIDS drug discoveries to fight drug-resistant HIV strains Belgian and American scientists have collaborated in discovering several new potential anti-AIDS drugs, including compounds that can block all known drug-resistant strains of the virus, according to a press release. According to the researchers, Dapivirine, based on its ease of manufacture and low cost, is a viable candidate for treating AIDS in the developing world, where 95 percent of HIV-infected patients are found. Eureka Alert |
| July 11, 2002 ILO says HIV/AIDS impact on African development "underestimated The ILO says HIV/AIDS impact on African development "underestimated and a major policy shift is needed now in a press release on July 10 2002. ILO experts told the XIV International AIDS Conference meeting here that previous attempts by economists to measure the costs of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa "are likely to be significant underestimates of the social and economic value of the losses of 'human capital' that are being experienced". ILO AIDS |
| July 4, 2002 Sub Saharan Africa Fact Sheet - UNAIDS - XIV International Conference on AIDS, Barcelona, Spain, 7-12 July 2002 HIV/AIDS marks a severe development crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, the worst- affected region in the world. Even if exceptionally effective prevention, treatment and care programmes take hold immediately, the scale of the epidemic means that the human and socioeconomic toll will remain massive for many generations. UNAIDS AIDS 2002 factsheets |
| July 4, 2002 Major UN study finds alarming lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young people NEW YORK / GENEVA, 2 July 2002 - In an alarming new finding, a United Nations report released today says the vast majority of the world's young people have no idea how HIV/AIDS is transmitted or how to protect themselves from the disease. Yet the study also shows that adolescence is the time when the majority of people become sexually active. |
| June 26, 2002 AIDS causing unprecedented devastation in Africa according to new data released by UNAIDS HIV/AIDS is rapidly weakening economic stability in the already fragile markets of sub-Saharan Africa. Already, the rate of economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen by as much as 4% because of AIDS. Labour productivity has been cut by up to 50% in the hardest-hit countries. |
| June 24, 2002 AIDS crisis will get worse in Sub-Saharan Africa There is a possibility that the AIDS pandemic will worsen rapidly in Sub Saharan Africa in the next five years and the numbers of AIDS cases could double according to analysis by US intelligence officials it was reported in the Boston Globe on June 16 2002. Read More |
| June 11, 2002 HIV/AIDS levelling off in South Africa? Encouraging news, according to a news release on Monday 11 June 2002 from the Department of Health (DOH) in the South African Government, data gathered from an annual survey seems to indicate the number of HIV infections may be leveling off and stabilizing. Read more |
| June 5, 2002 Transmission of the HIV virus blamed on a fly A novel theory for the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and rapid spread in Africa has put the blame on a fly – the stable fly, Stomoxys Calcitrans, a blood sucke The Lancet |
| November 30, 2001 Join the debate on HIV and Aids Join the debate on HIV and AIDS Join the Debate on HIV/AIDS Communication and Evaluation |
| November 28, 2001 WORLD AIDS DAY IS COMING - SHOW YOU CARE AND WEAR THE RED RIBBON |
| November 15, 2001 The HIV/AIDS controversy in South Africa - The MRC report The controversy on HIV/AIDS in South Africa still rumbles on with the government coming under severe criticism for its stance and refusal to come outright saying that AIDS is caused by HIV and people should take steps to protects themselves. But is the South African government the only culprit in supposedly promoting views counter to widely held beliefs about HIV/AIDS? Read more.… HIV in South Africa |
| July 25, 2001 Kenya ponders HIV hanging call After years of remaining silent in the subject, possibly for fear of jeopardising the tourist trade, President Moi of Kenya has started the debate on hanging men who spread AIDS. But is hanging the answer? Read More |
| June 28, 2001 High Hopes but in the end disappointment The much hyped special session UNAIDS conference, the first of its kind to address a specific health problem has ended amid much general disappointment. There is a feeling of missed opportunities. I had the opportunity of attending a panel conference "The challenge to Sustainable Development in Africa: The gender dimension of HIV/AIDS, peace and economic security" presented by UNIFEM, UNAIDS, UNDP and DAW/DESA on the eve of the main AIDS conference. |
| June 25, 2001 U.N. Releases Details on HIV/AIDS Assembly Events (UNAIDS Conference June 25 2001) "HIV/AIDS is a global problem of catastrophic proportions. The challenge is enormous, but we are not powerless to face it," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has made combatting the disease a "personal priority," said in a statement detailing events planned for the U.N. General Assembly's special session on HIV/AIDS, set to begin on Monday. |
| June 20, 2001 UNAIDS Welcomes Gates foundation contribution We commend the Gates Foundation for being the first private foundation to commit needed resources in the fight against HIV/AIDS to the global fund. In making this contribution, the fund becomes a still more diverse and international partnership - which is surely the only way we will defeat this epidemic and reverse its terrible consequences. The Foundation has also set out the high priority that they give to stopping transmission and protecting a new generation of young people from becoming infected. We hope that today's announcement by the Gates Foundation will catalyse other donors including other private foundations to channel major contributions to the global fund. Gates Foundation |
| June 20, 2001 Strategies for HIV drug distribution No sooner do I suggest making use of existing supply networks of companies such as Coca-cola to help distribute drugs, than Coca-cola announce their intention of joining the UN in the fight against AIDS. Coke joins AIDS fight in Africa. Marketing giant will help United Nations deliver information and treatment |
| June 18, 2001 Strategies for HIV drug distribution Use existing supply networks, for example the use of Coca-Cola supply lorries in Nigeria as part of the vaccine cold chain network. Perhaps one can use beer trucks to supply HIV drugs to rural areas. After all the beer always manages to get there! (there may be ethical problems with this). |
| May 31, 2001 HIV/AIDS RETROSPECTIVE HIV/AIDS RETROSPECTIVE Its 20 years since the AIDS epidemic was first recognised. Since then more than 15 million Africans have died of the disease, a quarter of them children. 2 decades on, what has changed, what are the prospects for beating this scourge. Medilinks will be running a series of articles on the current picture of HIV/AIDS to coincide with the forthcoming UN conference on 25 June 2001. If you have any stories you would like to share please send them in posted at 11:57 PM |