A palliative gesture

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Health ministry rubbishes AIDS headcount

AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic

In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance  

Science & Technology - Briefs

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

Double standards

The US government procures generic drugs for anthrax from a non-patent holder

A bitter dose

Multinational drug firms gang up against a company that wants to produce cheaper generics

Will HIV bill reach House?

Seminars promote patents

Cipla puts US law school on notice     

What caused HIV/AIDS to explode?

Social forces drive viral pandemics, say scientists

Three-in-one offer

Protests against Abbott laboratory in Bangkok

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

The new rule

Of the people. By the people. But against the people?

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

Withdrawal symptoms

Drug firms abandon their case against South Africa over the pricing of AIDS medicines

Aided by war

AIDS may rise in Pakistan

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World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report

The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets

AIDS virus weakening

Claims Belgian study

Asia should spend more to tackle AIDS, says UN

Antibody reduces levels of HIV virus in body during clinical trial

Results considered a milestone in the search for more effective treatment of HIV

Tanzania

What price, gorilla meat

African bushmen stand the risk of contracting deadly viruses from bushmeat