Source: Reuters
By Michael Kahn, Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Near-universal HIV tests and immediate drug treatment for people who test positive would almost eliminate transmission of the deadly virus within a decade, a computer model showed on Wednesday.
Doing this would cost more initially but then save money down the road because there would be fewer HIV-infected people [...]

Source: Xinhua
By Xinhua writer Gu Zhenqiu
UNITED NATIONS, April 21 (Xinhua) — As the world is haunted by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s,efforts to address the crisis are really not a business for governments only. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can also play a constructive role in this [...]

Source: UNAIDS
20 April 2009
By Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Geneva, Switzerland
(This article also appeared in the Bangkok Post on 20 April 2009)
At the Mitsamphan drug user harm reduction drop-in centre in Bangkok drug users are able to get clean needles, condoms and counselling. Access to these services allows them [...]

Source: Reuters
Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:00pm EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese children with AIDS, especially from rural families, are going without treatment because their families are too poor to afford it, despite a government policy of free treatment, an activist group said on Monday.
Some families don’t even know AIDS treatment programs exist, it said.
“China has [...]

Mary O’Hara
The Observer, Sunday 19 April 2009
Source: Guardian
The use of illicit drugs must be decriminalised if efforts to halt the spread of Aids are to succeed, one of the world’s leading independent authorities on the disease has warned.
In an unprecedented attack on global drugs policy, Michele Kazatchkine, head of the influential Global Fund to Fight [...]

Source: Reuters
Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:01pm EDT
LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - The cost of AIDS medicines in poor countries is to come down further, following a new bulk purchase arrangement negotiated with a group of generic drug manufacturers.
The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and the international drug-purchasing consortium Unitaid said on Friday they had struck deals [...]

Source: Reuters
Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:48am EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - From 1985 to 2007, the CD4+ cell counts seen at diagnosis in HIV-infected patients in the US have fallen, suggesting that the virus may be adapting to the host and becoming more virulent, according to a report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
These findings agree with [...]

2009-04-11 09:33:33
Source: Xinhua
HAVANA, April 10 (Xinhua) — A center to assist more than 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients from six eastern Cuban provinces was inaugurated Friday at the Juan Bruno Zayas hospital in Santiago de Cuba.
The center has high-tech equipment for immunology and virology analysis, surgical treatment, and endoscopic [...]

8 April 2009
Source:AFP
PARIS (AFP) — Doctors on Thursday published evidence backing calls for treating HIV-infected patients before their immune system crashes below a commonly-recognised threshold of damage inflicted by the AIDS virus.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) began to overturn the automatic death sentence associated with AIDS after this powerful cocktail of drugs was introduced in [...]

Source: TheAdvocate.com
By Julie Bolcer
April 01, 2009
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday calling for more-inclusive U.S. sexual- and reproductive-health policies overseas. The group said that policies could be improved through the appointment of a global AIDS coordinator sensitive to LGBT concerns, particularly the [...]

Source: The Ottawa Citizen
By Louisa Taylor, The Ottawa Citizen
April 1, 2009
OTTAWA — A motion to reform Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) would save lives by streamlining Canada’s system for getting low-cost medicines to developing countries, says the Liberal senator who sponsored the bill.
Senator Yoine Goldstein Tuesday tabled Bill S-232 to amend the provisions of [...]

Source: PCWorld
Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:20 AM PDT
Bill Gates announced a $33 million grant from his charity foundation to help fight tuberculosis in China on Wednesday, deepening his organization’s involvement in the country.
New tests and treatments for TB will be offered in China under the joint program between the Bill and [...]

Source: AFP
By GILLIAN WONG – Mar 31, 2009
BEIJING (AP) — The World Health Organization’s chief warned Wednesday that emerging, hard-to-treat strains of tuberculosis are set to spiral out of control and urged countries to fight the growing threat to global public health.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told health ministers and senior officials from 27 countries worst-affected [...]

Source: Eurekalert
Public release date: 30-Mar-2009
Contact: Elize Massard da Fonseca
e.m.fonseca@sms.ed.ac.uk
University of Edinburgh
Brazil plays key role in improving access to medicines for all
The role Brazil has played in changing global AIDS policy and promoting widespread access to AIDS treatment is explored in a new paper by academics from Scotland and the United States
The Role Brazil has played [...]

AKAR, 24 March 2009 (IRIN) - Over the past three years, the number of countries reporting cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)- essentially untreatable in the developing world- has grown by almost 25 percent to reach 55 countries, as of 2009 World TB Day.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates about five percent of newly [...]