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Mail and Guardian: African Aids policy is a disaster (July 2, 1999)
Aids activists: Protesters outside the US consulate demand that the US explain why it is keeping Aids medication out of the financial reach of most Africans
CDC
News - Prevention News Update
"Spain Approves AIDS Drug-Resistance Tests"
Lancet
(04/15/100) Vol. 355, No. 9212, P. 1343; Bosch, Xavier Spain's national health service (NHS) will designate hospitals in its autonomous communities to perform genetic testing in HIV and AIDS patients to check for resistance to antiviral agents. The testing will be performed in regions with at least 1,000 to 1,500 patients being treated for AIDS. According to the NHS, four types of patients--those who have failed a therapy, children with a novel diagnosis of HIV infection, pregnant women, and patients with symptomatic primary HIV and who have not started highly active antiretroviral therapy--will be eligible for testing. The tests, which will cost about $150 each, will be paid for by the NHS.
Pfizer
to give away AIDS drug to poor South Africans - April 3, 2000
Pfizer Inc. is offering to give away an expensive AIDS drug to poor South Africans, a move that follows a series of protests and raises hopes other ...
Switching at Least Two
Antiretrovirals for HIV-Infected Patients Improves Viral Load "
Reuters Health Information Services
(04/25/00); Agrawal, Alka
A report by Dr. Paul Weidle of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues shows that in HIV-infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy for years, viral load can be reduced by adding a drug from a previously unused class of drugs or by changing at least two medications. The study involved 96 HIV patients who were taking at least two antiretroviral drugs and who had viral loads of 10,000 log copies/mL or greater. The research focused on the short-term response to switching treatments; it is unclear how such a change will work in the long term. The study was published in the March 31 issue of AIDS (2000;14:491-497).
"Group Offers First-Aid Manual for the Street"
Edmonton
Sun (04/26/00) P. 7; Beazley, Doug
Streetworks, a needle exchange program in Canada, offers a service, called Natural Helpers, that essentially serves as a support group for injection drug users (IDUs) for the Edmonton area. Government statistics show that Edmonton has about 4,000 IDUs, but a Streetworks official claims the actual number is closer to 10,000. Volunteers from the organization have come up with a first-aid manual written in the language of street people, focusing on medical situations that commonly affect these individuals and using whatever is available for treatment, such as a bar towel instead of bandage. The booklet contains scenarios and playlets that show how to treat people who are burned or stabbed, and how to help people who overdose.
CNN.com - Health: AIDS
Russia to open separate prison for HIV-infected inmates Authorities in a Siberian region will open a separate prison for inmates infected with HIV, a news report said Thursday. IMF says, AIDS is ...
AIDS
dwarfs famine as killer in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - In a crowded dormitory in the Ethiopian capital, Reduan, who is dying of AIDS, called Sister Benedicta over to his bedside. "Sister, my whole body is burning, give me something to cool down," he said.