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...compulsory license” that would have allowed companies to produce generic versions of Kaletra and Aluvia, another AIDS drug, an action that was legal under World Trade Organization regulations and undertaken to make drugs more accessible to the population. Five hundred thousand people in Thailand are living with HIV, according to a United Nations report. Yesterday’s protesters demanded that Abbott Laboratories immediately re-register Kaletra, Aluvia, and six other medications it pulled from the Thailand market, and grant other developing nations the rights to produce generic versions of its medications at affordable prices...
...Action to raise awareness about the connection between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale University licensed an exclusive patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking...
...nationwide furor began when Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty appeared together at an AIDS-awareness function in New Delhi last Sunday. The event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference...
...distributing multivitamins, such as B-complex, C, and E vitamins, to pregnant women could be a cost-effective way of reducing low infant birth weight, a significant risk factor for infant mortality and other afflictions like heart disease and diabetes. Building on earlier findings of improved birth outcomes for HIV-positive women, the study showed better outcomes for HIV-negative women taking multivitamins as well. The researchers found an 18 percent decrease in low birth weight, which is defined as weights less than five-and-a-half pounds, for those HIV-negative women taking daily vitamin supplements...
...screen, a doctor gravely informs a young man - D.J. by name and occupation - that he is HIV-positive. When the young man bursts into tears, laughter and loud murmurs breaks out among the audience. We are not in a multiplex, but in a sports stadium in Rwanda, where it is still taboo for a man to cry. But breaking conventions is exactly what a group of young filmmakers, actors and technicians who have staged tonight's showing intend. As part of Rwanda's annual film festival, the Hillywood project involves traveling the dusty roads of rural Rwanda equipped with...