Topic: Asia
European governments are threatening to break off negotiations with India on a free-trade deal the EU had hoped would be worth 175 billion euros a year, an EU report revealed on Tuesday.Four years after talks began with New Delhi, frustrated European Union ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.The number ...
An HIV-positive man in China said Thursday he was suing local authorities for denying him a job as a primary school teacher, in a sign of growing assertiveness among the nation's HIV/AIDS sufferers.If accepted by the court, the lawsuit will be only ...
India's success in slashing HIV/AIDS infection rates by 50 percent in the last decade masks a high rate of infection among homosexual and transgender people, experts say.This anomaly was highlighted last month by the country's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa and high levels of risky sexual behavior threaten to spread the AIDS virus further in the region, researchers said Tuesday.In the first ...
Scientists have now provided revolutionary tools to roll back HIV but only a major funding boost, supported especially by emerging giant economies, will determine the outcome, experts say.Experts at the conference on AIDS medicine here said the money gap imperilled the dazzling ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - It will be a "big mistake" for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world's second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has promised not to link a proposed trade deal with the European Union with limiting its production of generic HIV/AIDS drugs, the United Nations said on Thursday, giving hope to millions of infected patients but underlining the ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to its trade deal with the European Union, the head of UNAIDS warned on Tuesday.The ...
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday hailed the country's success in slashing new HIV/AIDS infections by half in the past decade, but warned against complacency."Our HIV/AIDS programme can justifiably claim a measure of success," he told a conference in New Delhi ...
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