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Arab countries have some of the world's fastest-growing rates of HIV infection, but their governments and religious authorities have been slow to address the problem. That was the message last week from a Cairo conference organized by the Arab League and the U.N. Development Program, which drew together more than 300 leading religious figures from 20 Arab countries, and was jointly led by Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque - which is influential throughout the Sunni Muslim world - and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and President of the Middle East...
...conference was told that a new HIV infection occurs every ten minutes in the Arab world, and the region is threatened with a generalized AIDS pandemic similar to that of sub-Saharan Africa unless bold and effective measures are quickly implemented. Anywhere from 67,000 to 200,000 new infections occurred - and some 58,000 people died from AIDS - in the Arab world in 2005, but accurate data and surveys are lacking...
...early 1990s, Yale researchers discovered a compound, d4T, that slows the progression of HIV. Yale licensed an exclusive patent for the drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, which then marketed it under the brand name Zerit...
...triple-therapy AIDS cocktail that has dramatically improved treatment of the disease in the U.S., where a year’s dosage of Zerit costs about $4,600, by one estimate. But Zerit’s high price tag kept the drug out of reach for most developing-world HIV victims...
...license agreement does not contain a provision ensuring that developing-world HIV patients will have access to the drug, according to Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, an activist group with chapters at 32 campuses, including Harvard...