December 2000 The arguments over affordable life-saving medicines for the developing world intensified late last month when it was revealed that Glaxo-Wellcome has blocked the importation of inexpensive generic knock-offs of its premier AIDS drug, Combivir, into Ghana (a small…
Quality Control of Brazilian-Made Antivirals By Mark Harrington December 2000 Before our talks I asked Jorge Bermudez(1) about the quality control of the Brazilian-made antivirals. He said it was not a problem and that results of bioequivalence studies would soon…
Durban Delegates Return Stateside, Fired Up and Ready to Jump Back Into the Fray September 2000 A Mouse Roars "The answer does not lie with donations or price cuts from drug companies but rather with the mass production of quality…
High Court Official, Openly HIV-Positive, Brings Durban Crowd to Their Feet With Heartfelt Plea for Equity September 2000 "Collusive Paralysis" Just before the Sunday activist march began, Justice Edwin Cameron, a judge of the High Court of South Africa who…
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…