HIV

Experts call for more women and youth participation in AIDS vaccine trials

31 August 2004
With women at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as men when exposed to the virus that causes AIDS - and six times as vulnerable in parts of sub-Saharan Africa - HIV vaccine clinical trials must be geared towards meeting their needs, the United Nations health agency said today.

AIDS threatens African food supply by cutting transfer of farming know-how

23 August 2004
HIV/AIDS is threatening subsistence agriculture across southern and eastern Africa, impoverishing agricultural households and potentially cutting off the transfer of vital know-know about traditional crops from generation to generation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today.

Burkina Faso: UN to administer new $1.5 million project to fight HIV/AIDS

16 August 2004
Burkina Faso will receive an interest-free loan of $1.5 million from the African Development Fund (ADF) to strengthen community initiatives for preventing, testing and treating HIV/AIDS in a new project administered through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

UN health agency de-lists certain generic HIV/AIDS drugs pending further tests

4 August 2004
Three generic HIV/AIDS medicines have been removed from the international list of medicines available to developing countries because the manufacturer had not ensured the drugs were equivalent to the original medicines they were supposed to copy, the United Nations health agency said today.