Tuesday
9th August 2005
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 Roche
uses 4 Uruguayan PLWA as Guinea Pigs for 4 month Fuzeon study.
Restores some to health, then discards them.
Received by Agua Buena from a Uruguayan NGO on July 23rd from
the e-mail address: alpcse@adinet.com.uy.
"It
is among the cruelest examples of pharmaceutical company greed
that I have ever heard of. How can you use some one for your own
research purposes, restore them to health after they were in complete
treatment failure, as in the case of the 4th PLWA mentioned below,
and then tell them they are "on their own" to cover
a $20,000/year product? (Or that they have to "negotiate"??)
BUT AT THIS MOMENT THE THREE SURVIVING PLWA ARE NO LONGER
RECEIVING THE MEDICATION!!! "
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WHO to fail to meet AIDS drugs goal
Wednesday, July 27, 2005. 10:45am (AEST) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) will fail to meet
its target of having 3 million people on free HIV/AIDS treatment by the
end of this year but will still push ahead for universal access to drugs,
the agency says.
Dr Jim Yong Kim, WHO HIV/AIDS department director,
says its three million target would not be reached due to a slow start
because of disagreement on whether poor nations had the capacity to
administer HIV treatment programs.
But he said that having one million people now on the program
was major progress and he expected there would be more by late
2005.
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MSF urges action to curb HIV/AIDS drugs
pricing crisis
Nairobi,
Kenya, 07/27 -
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for urgent
action to ensure a continuous supply of affordable HIV/AIDS medicines
to those who need them.
"The current system of Aids drug pricing is clearly failing patients
in developing countries," the agency said it a media communiqué
issued simultaneously in Rio de Janeiro and its Nairobi office
on Tuesday.
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‘We need privacy, but not secrecy’
By Andrew Jack
Published:
August 8 2005 22:19
Anock
Kapira, a worker at Manet, an organisation for Aids sufferers
in Malawi, tells a story about his HIVpositive cousin to
show why better treatment alone will not stop the world’s
Aids pandemic......
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Organisations Receive Support from the Collaborative Fund
for HIV/AIDS Treatment Preparedness in Southern Africa
(Windhoek, 1 August
2005)
The Community
Review Panel (CRP) of the Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS
Treatment Preparedness in Southern Africa has reviewed
and granted support to 23 community-based organisations
in the region. These were organisations whose applications
were most aligned to the funding priority areas as set
out in the Call for Proposals within the broad spectrum
of conducting HIV treatments advocacy and education programs.
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The
disease claims some 140,000 lives a year and has made 12
percent of the country's children AIDS orphans.
Photo:WorldNews.com
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Over
40,000 Tanzanians to get free AIDS drugs by 2005
UPDATED: 18:02, July 21, 2005
A
total of 44,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers in Tanzania will get anti-retroviral drugs for free
by the end of this year, according to reports reaching here
on Thursday.
The
Health Ministry announced in the parliament on Wednesday that
the government had set aside 20 million US dollars for the purchase
of anti-retroviral drugs and the free-drug distribution program
would benefit 23,000 Tanzanians living with HIV/AIDS between
July and December this year.....
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