Thousands Strong, Fledgling South African Activist Group Sends Tremors Around the Globe September 2000 "Defiance Campaign" in the Offing Sunday afternoon as the Durban conference was just gearing up, some five thousand demonstrators singing, chanting and dancing marched from Durban…
An African AIDS Aid Chronology September 2000 May 12, 1999 Bristol-Myers announces five-year donation of $100 million to fight AIDS in Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, and South Africa. April 4, 2000 Pfizer offers free fluconazole to South Africans with AIDS…
Africa to Asia, Caribbean to Kazakhstan, An Explosive Epidemic Said To Threaten Backbone of Civil Society August 2000 A Demographic Catastrophe "I'm not someone who blames the West for everything. I do believe that the great moral test of our…
Broad Coalition of Organizations Calls on NIH to Devote Resources to Questions of Long-Term Therapy August 2000 Precious Little Data The following letter, a community consensus statement on the need for research into the long-term effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy for…
August 2000 Striking Lack of Awareness "People with hepatitis C infection deserve the same tools as those with HIV so that they can become experts about their virus," explains Michael Marco in the introduction to TAG's latest analysis of hepatitis…
Ready for Prime Time?, 2000 Do We Need Another Lab Test in the Clinic? July 2000 No one could accuse the HIV pharmacologists of being attention hogs -- but they were excited. It was the First International Workshop on Pharmacology…
July 2000 Intrapatient variability. "A blood level collected on Monday . . . may be markedly different from one drawn on Friday." In one AZT study in women, the mean area under the curve (AUC) varied as much as two-fold in some patients…
July 2000 A little over a year ago researchers began describing something that sounded more like science fiction than science. A sinister sounding mechanism in human cells was found to actually suck the revolutionary class of anti-HIV drugs, the protease…
Brave New World of Human Gene Sequencing Finds Porous Policy Guidelines to Its Liking June 2000 Generation Gape "If somebody uses this gene . . . after the patent has been issued . . . we'd be entitled not just to damages, but to double and…
Women-Controlled STD Prevention Methods Take Center Stage in Washington, If Only For A Day June 2000 The Plight of N-9 Condoms and vaccines are not the only ways to prevent the transmission of sexually acquired infections such as HIV. Another…