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News headlines for “Pharmaceutical Corporations and AIDS”, page 7
Investment in African Economies Shifting Away from Raw Materials
- Inter Press Service
Local and foreign investment on the African continent is slowly moving away from agriculture and raw materials to manufacturing, services, communication and tourism, despite poor infrastructure and low skills levels.
AFRICA: 'We Cannot Leave Lives of Nationals to Development Partners'
- Inter Press Service
As donors retreat from funding HIV prevention and treatment, the vulnerability of national programmes reliant on external funding has become apparent. Without long-term sustainaibility, the lives of millions could be at risk.
ZAMBIA: The Extended Family - Blessing or Burden?
- Inter Press Service
Peggy Kapanda has bad memories of the time she spent living with her uncle when she was young. She was treated as a second-rank child. But this only motivated her to do a better job herself. At her small home in John Laing compound, in Zambia's capital Lusaka, she and her husband take care of two other children in addition to their own three young boys.
No Quiet Old Age for South Africa's Grannies
- Inter Press Service
Grannies are indispensable in South Africa. They may have been hoping for a restful old age, but the AIDS epidemic has seen them taking on motherhood for a second time, caring for grandchildren whose parents have died of the disease.
KENYA: Civil Society Defends Access to Generic Drugs
- Inter Press Service
Access to affordable medicine for millions of people in the South could be at risk if the production and distribution of generic medicine from India is restricted.
HEALTH-BURMA: Global Fund Back With New Hope
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s transition from an overt military rule to a civilian administration of retired generals is getting a shot in the arm from a former critic of the junta — the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Anti-Gay Laws Fuel HIV
- Inter Press Service
Outdated laws that treat same-sex relations as a crime in a third of Asia-Pacific countries fuel fresh HIV infections, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM), a most vulnerable community.
Obama AIDS Plan Stumbles over Funding
- Inter Press Service
When U.S. President Barack Obama raised the curtain on a six- year, six-billion-dollar Global Health Initiative (GHI) in May 2009, he appeared to be embarking on the path of promises that paved the way to his election victory earlier that year.
SOUTH AFRICA: Delayed Drug Registration Could Affect Region
- Inter Press Service
Delays in drug registration by the country's Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed does combination antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But there are indications that the effects of the delays are being felt even farther afield.
SOUTH AFRICA: How Better ARV Prices Were Won
- Inter Press Service
South Africa’s recently-awarded tender for antiretroviral drugs halved drug costs for the world’s largest ARV programme. Driven by a better-prepared and more aggressive government, the deal may stand up to criticism better than initially thought.
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