Topic: Ukraine
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Elton John intends to provide financial and other support to a young Ukranian boy he had hoped to adopt, the singer-songwriter's partner David Furnish said Tuesday.Furnish told BBC Radio that the couple were " hugely disappointed" that Ukrainian authorities had blocked their ...
The AIDS epidemic in Ukraine, one of Europe's most affected countries, risk becoming generalised as heterosexual contacts become the chief transmission route for the HIV virus, UN and Ukrainian officials warned Monday. "Heterosexual contact has become the chief transmission path as the ...
Ukraine has the highest rate of HIV infection in Europe, with an estimated adult prevalence of 1.6 percent. The epidemic in Ukraine remains largely driven by injection drug use, and women of reproductive age are being increasingly affected. Prior research has highlighted ...
Elton John may not adopt a Ukrainian orphan because the former Soviet republic's law allows foreigners to adopt only if they are married, officials told AFP Monday.Sir Elton " does not have the right to do it because there are certain obstacles ...
Elton John wants to adopt a 14-month-old boy from the Ukraine, saying Saturday that the toddler has " stolen my heart" after meeting him at an orphanage.The British singer-songwriter, visiting the Ukraine with his AIDS charity foundation, performed for children at the ...
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