Topic: Asia
BOSTON (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday that its experimental HIV drug elvitegravir met the main goal of a late-stage clinical trial.The goal was to demonstrate that the drug is as effective after 48 weeks of treatment, dosed once daily, ...
Thousands of HIV-positive protesters called on the Indian government on Wednesday to reject EU trade demands they said would make lifesaving drugs unaffordable to millions of people with the virus.More than 2,000 demonstrators from India and other Asian countries marched through downtown ...
China warned Wednesday of the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in some areas, saying the situation in the country was still grim and calling for better prevention and treatment of the disease."The disease in some areas and population groups has become highly prevalent ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes to more or less bring the spread of AIDS under control by 2020, but faces an uphill task do to so due in part to ignorance and poor policy coordination, the government said on Wednesday.China has 560,000 ...
A heart-wrenching documentary about AIDS sufferers in China and the discrimination they face in their daily lives has won a rapturous reception at the Berlin film festival.Based on interviews and emails with a wide range of HIV positive people, director Zhao Liang ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kenyans living with HIV protested outside EU offices in Nairobi on Thursday against a deal they say may block access to cheap life-saving AIDS drugs.The European Union and India are due to discuss a free-trade agreement in ...
Philandering husbands who visit prostitutes across the border in Thailand are being blamed for high HIV-AIDS infection rates among women in Malaysia's most conservative state.The Malaysian AIDS Council reportedly said that women in northern Kelantan state, which is ruled by the hardline ...
A retired senior Chinese health official on Wednesday called for two of the country's most powerful leaders to take responsibility for a huge 1990s blood-selling AIDS scandal.Chen Bingzhong, 78, who has advanced liver cancer, wrote an open letter to Chinese President Hu ...
Retired Chinese official pushes for investigation of 1990s HIV epidemic from tainted bloodIn his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with ...
Following are home news items to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Tuesday: -- Follow-up on school stampede in China's Xinjiang . -- AIDS: Agony hidden in the depth of mountains .
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