Topic: United Nations
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of a five-year, private sector effort to improve the health up to 120 million women and children in developing nations ...
UN expert warns that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDSThe U.N.'s top investigator on torture and punishment is warning that overcrowded prisons are breeding grounds for AIDS. Manfred Nowak, who has visited detention facilities around the world, says inmates are often ...
UN taps big names to promote HIV prevention _ Magic Johnson, Jacques Chirac, Chris HughesThe U.N. AIDS agency has tapped some big names — including former basketball star Magic Johnson — to boost global efforts to prevent the spread of HIV. Others ...
Life-saving drugs that quell HIV reached a record 355,000 children at the end of last year, compared with 276,000 a year earlier, but more young lives could be saved if antiretroviral treatment began earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS groups on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the health rights of millions of poor people around the world through trade policies that make it harder for them to get life-saving drugs. A coalition that includes Health ...
Scientists reported a major stride towards a vaginal gel that can thwart HIV, a goal that would be of huge benefit to African women bearing the brunt of the AIDS pandemic. A prototype cream tested in South Africa curbed the risk of ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - MTV drama programs about HIV and AIDS shown to young people in some of the highest-risk countries in Africa and the Caribbean had a dramatic affect on attitudes to the disease, a study released on Tuesday showed. A U.N.-backed ...
Scientists on Monday reported a major stride towards a vaginal gel that can thwart HIV, a goal that would be of huge benefit to African women bearing the brunt of the AIDS pandemic. A prototype cream tested in South Africa curbed the ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is building at an alarming pace, fueled by drug use, risky sex and severe social stigma that stops people asking for help, the United Nations said on Monday. In ...
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