Topic: Eastern Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.The Medicines ...
The region which brought you the Black Death, communism and all-pervasive kleptocracy now presents: How misleading even these dire data are is revealed by an in-depth study of a single city in Russia, Togliatti. Quoted in Pravda.ru, The Director of the Federal ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Huge disparities between Western and Eastern Europe in tackling the AIDS virus mean the HIV crisis in the region is far from over, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday.The U.N. health body said the rapidly rising rates of ...
Global AIDS conference warns of growing epidemic in Eastern Europe, Central AsiaExperts and activists are warning that AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is on the rise even as a global conference reports progress on other fronts.An estimated 1.5 million adults ...
The number of people taking crucial AIDS drugs climbed by a record 1.2 million last year to 5.2 million overall, the World Health Organization said Monday — but Bill Clinton says that's still not nearly enough.Between 2003 and 2010, the number of ...
"I am not a drug addict!" insisted Andri, 32, staring desperately at the walls of a clinic for people with HIV in Kiev.The young father contracted HIV through a casual sexual relationship, like alarming numbers of others in a country where heterosexual ...
About 200 HIV-positive people and AIDS activists are holding a protest outside Ukraine's Cabinet building against a recent decision to close a clinic that treats the country's most seriously ill AIDS patients.Ukraine's growing HIV/AIDS epidemic is considered Europe's most serious.The clinic is ...
Few Eastern Europe and Central Asian leaders have said they would attend a major AIDS conference next month, organisers said Thursday, despite rising HIV rates in the two regions.Former US president Bill Clinton tops the billing for the July 18-23 International AIDS ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Countries in eastern Europe and central Asia face spiralling AIDS epidemics if they fail to help people who inject drugs and stop the spread of infection, the head of the United Nations agency for HIV/AIDS said on Friday.Michel Sidibe ...
AIDS 2010, the 18th International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna later this year, will focus on marginalised groups living with the disease, such as injecting drug users in Eastern Europe, organisers said Wednesday."AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without ...
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