Full Coverage: AIDS

29.05.2007 JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (IPS) - About one million people in need of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS are yet to receive it in four southern African states, according to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a global nongovernmental organisation specialising in medical services.

29.05.2007 Angelique Kidjo and World Education will partner together to enable girls to go to secondary school in Mali and Benin. This effort will support 304 girls who have been orphaned by AIDS or whose families are affected by AIDS, are disabled or are extremely poor.

29.05.2007 During the Global AIDS Week in India, ActionAid enabled a group of HIV-positive people to share their concerns with parliamentarians in Delhi. The MPs expressed their support for better testing facilities, trained staff and access to treatment and a promise to AIDS activists to bring up the issue in the coming Parliament session.

25.05.2007 The HIV virus travels hundred times faster through blood than unsafe sex, say Mariette Correa and David Gisselquist, independent consultants involved in AIDS research and programming. The need is to make people aware of the dangers of non-sterile healthcare and focus policies on the ‘blood route’ to HIV infection.

25.05.2007 People gathered with candles burning in New Delhi, Sunday evening, to mark the start of the Global Aids Week. Eight other cities across the country would raise awareness through similar events as part of the global initiative to demand more resources to fight HIV/AIDS.

18.05.2007 Austrian freelance writer Shelley Seale is researching a book - The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India - on the countryÂ’s 12 million orphans. She claims that social and economic circumstances increase the vulnerability of the children to the HIV virus which not only depletes the human body but also depletes families and communities of their assets.

10.05.2007 BANGKOK, May 10 (IPS) - By standing up to pressure from big pharmaceutical companies over cheap anti-AIDS drugs, Thailand may have created an opening in global trade rules that will permit developing countries to more readily break patents in times of public health emergencies.

09.05.2007 The second Global AIDS Week of Action will be held during the week 20-25 May 2007 across the globe. It is an opportunity for activists to unite, generate political pressure and demand a stronger response from our leaders in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The week of action will also be a reminder to the upcoming G8 Summit in Germany.

08.05.2007

04.05.2007 An oral test for HIV will soon become the preferred alternative to blood tests, claim researchers. In a study, 66% of those who did a blood test complained of discomfort, while only 8% of those who submitted to the oral test had complaints. The oral test OraQuick Rapid HIV1/2 is 100% accurate and can get good results in rural settings in China and India.