Updated January 22, 2006

Press announcement for Barry & Martin's Prize 2005

General News

• China approves regulation on HIV/AIDS prevention, control

• Sex, please, we're young and Chinese

• S. China educates government officials about AIDS

• HIV infected patients claim 30 million yuan in Harbin court

• US First Lady defends abstinence approach to AIDS in Africa

• UNESCO, big business join forces against AIDS

• Bush picks AIDS assistance coordinator to head USAID

• 'Blood war' by South African gays slammed

• Millions Sought in HIV Infections Case

• IRAQ: Rise in numbers living with HIV/AIDS, says health ministry

Research News

• More efficient HIV treatment discovered: study

• U.S. Halts Drug-Conserving AIDS Study

Updated January 15, 2006

General News

• Female AIDS patients 'beaten with electric batons' in China

• Clinton announces HIV/AIDS drug initiative

• Half of companies see future AIDS impact - study

• Protests mount in India over arrest of gay men

• Proposed Condom Law Irks Colombia Priests

Corporate and Research News

• Roche to spread expertise in making HIV drug

• Early HIV control by drug therapy predicts outcome

• Thailand, China to launch herbal drug for people with HIV

• Gilead, Bristol-Myers Say HIV Drug Results Positive

Updated January 9, 2006

General News

• China to double spending on AIDS/HIV prevention

• Nigeria to double free AIDS treatment centers

• Thai AIDS death toll down sharply in 2005

• Iran's HIV cases top 12,000

• 'Don't forget us' begs jailed Bulgarian nurse in Libya 

Corporate and Research News

• Herpes in pregnancy may raise HIV risk for baby

• Indian biotech firms cash in on promise of better tomorrow

Updated December 17, 2005

General News

• Hu handshakes mean mockery for China AIDS victims

• Global AIDS, TB and malaria fund lacks money

• You've got mail, and maybe gonorrhea

• 25 percent leap in new Greek HIV cases in 2005

• Myanmar reports slight fall in HIV rate, seeks outside help

• Prostitute mom sparks storm with book

• PAKISTAN: UNODC to launch HIV/AIDS prevention programme in prisons

• HIV and AIDS worsens the food insecurity situation in Malawi

• Indian Muslims say no to condom machines

Research and Corporate News

• High levels of HIV drug cause mental problems

• Clinic halts use of OraSure HIV test

• Mothers pass hepatitis C more often to infant girls

• China's human trials of AIDS vaccine going "smoothly": researcher

Updated December 11, 2005

General news

• China bans blood sales in bid to halt HIV spread

• Rethink strategies in the fight against AIDS: UN expert

• Former Indian prostitute vows to fight HIV/AIDS

• Appeal for treatment for children, the forgotten face of the AIDS epidemic

• Women more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection than men

• ZIMBABWE: Prevention campaigns successful as HIV rate drops

• Singapore informs spouses of HIV-positive partners

• Singapore jails five HIV blood donors for lying

• LEBANON: Homosexuals still facing discrimination

• AIDS pandemic in Africa is destroying family structures

Research and Corporate News

• Forcing patients to pay for AIDS care endangers treatment success

• TANZANIA: Clinical trials on HIV/AIDS vaccine to start in March 2006

• Microsoft boss backs India's quest for TB vaccine: official

• Oral HIV Test Turns Up False Results in SF

Updated December 3, 2005

General News

• WHO says AIDS may infect 10 mln in China by 2010

• China demands stepped-up AIDS prevention drive

• China urges HIV tests amid warnings of another AIDS crisis

• China official HIV count rises 50 pct in past year

• Chinese blood donor with HIV infects 23 people

• China grapples with new estimates of AIDS spread

• Shanghai to nearly triple number of condom vending machines

• 'We must do far, far more' against AIDS - Annan

• WHO apologises for missing AIDS treatment target

• UN urges "exceptional response" to AIDS crisis

• Bush claims progress against AIDS in Africa

• Condoms and rallies promote World AIDS Day

• Brazil bucks AIDS trend, but blacks are hard-hit

• Pope avoids condom issue in AIDS message

• France concerned over rise in HIV infection

Research and Corporate News

• Key facts and figures about HIV/AIDS

• Twice as many men paying for sex - report

• AIDS expert sees vaccine progress

• Glaxo hopes to adapt measles shot to fight HIV

• Swedish HIV vaccine revives hopes for DNA path

• Canada HIV soars among 55 and older

General News

• China to build special prisons for AIDS convicts

• China denies plans to build AIDS-only prisons

• Hong Kong records largest gain in HIV, big rise among gays

• Bird flu could hurt fight to combat AIDS-UN official

• UN says urgent need to ensure funds reach HIV/AIDS prevention workers

• Pressure on FDA could stall advances - ex-official

• India seeks novel ways to tackle AIDS

• Libya delays ruling on AIDS death sentences

• Canadian Football league Player Is HIV Positive and was charged with sexual assault

Research and Corporate News

• British HIV patients show increasing drug resistance

• Malaria may boost mother-child HIV infection - study

• HIV diagnoses fall among blacks: CDC

• Nurses, PAs as good as doctors for HIV care

• South Africa to host phase II AIDS vaccine trials

• Bristol-Myers Drug Said Cuts HIV Rebound

• Merck & Co. HIV Drug Lowers Virus Level

Updated November 13, 2005

General News

• Victims of HIV scandal detained at major conference in China

• Chinese flock to sex festival as society sheds taboos

• British medics give cautious response to HIV patient 'cure' claim

• Poor legal protection for women, children exposes them to HIV

• Bulgarian nurses row is not political, says Libya

Corporate and Research News

• Briton world's first to beat HIV: reports

• Bacteria modified to combat HIV

• HIV patients on HAART, cut TB risk

• Proposed condom labels warn against spermicide

• Syphilis rises in US but gonorrhea at new low - study

Updated November 5, 2005

General News

• Credibility concerns may make China coy about disclosing HIV data

• Panel weighs speed, risks of at-home HIV test

• 32,000 HIV, 50,000 TB cases in Russian jails

• Drug substitution treatment in Vietnam to fight HIV/AIDS

• Libya to scrap death penalty to end nurses row 

• Elizabeth Taylor Attends Ribbon Cutting

• Man Sentenced for Spreading HIV

Corporate and Research News

• Companies to develop AIDS defense for women

Updated October 30, 2005

General News

• China warns HIV cases could exceed 10 mln by 2010

• GLOBAL: UN agencies launch pro-child HIV/AIDS drive

• Stigma, ignorance risks spread of AIDS in Sudan

• Children are "invisible face" of AIDS: UNICEF

• AIDS threatens to destroy Pacific cultures: UN

• Government Mulls Do-It-Yourself AIDS Test

Corporate and Research News

• Circumcision cuts HIV risk: study

• HIV program shows promise for low-income teens

• South African firms expand HIV tests, treatment

• GSK cancels Phase III testing of AIDS drug - Ono

• Vaginal Gel Trials Start in Africa

Updated October 22, 2005

General News

• Expats in China fight SARS hospital move

• Bush urges Libya to free condemned Bulgarian nurses

• Libyans Demonstrate Against Bush's Stance

• UGANDA: AIDS treatment capacity overwhelmed, says NGO official

• Russia's spiralling HIV, health problems highlighted in UN report

• Truckers ride AIDS highway up and down India

• Young Botswana blood donors spread hope, not AIDS

Corporate and Research News

• Zambia starts herbal AIDS drug trials

• Trimeris Says 3Q Fuzeon Sales Rise

• Gilead Sciences 3Q Profit Rises

• AIDS Drug Maker to Pay $704M in Settlement

Updated October 15, 2005

General News

• China Reports 126,808 HIV Infection Cases 

• China gays under pressure to stay in the closet

• Swaziland's AIDS orphans battle drought, hunger

• HIV rates on decline in Zimbabwe, UN agency says

• Group: Africa Turns Back on AIDS Kids

• Americans playing risky game of sexual roulette: survey

Research and Corporate News

• Brazil Reaches AIDS Drug Deal With Abbott

• GenVec HIV Vaccine in Mid-Stage Trial

• A new step towards an AIDS vaccine

• FDA mulling approval of at-home AIDS test

• AIDS, antiretroviral drugs don't halt brain damage

Updated October 8, 2005

General News

• AIDS Believed on Rise Again in Thailand

• Europe needs to 'wake up' to rising HIV infections: UN AIDS chief

• Sharp rise in HIV infections in Germany

• American arrested for knowingly selling HIV-tainted blood

• Elton John donates 25,000 pounds to Nepal gay rights group

Corporate and Research News

• Study: Hollywood Doesn't Show Consequences

• New HIV infection every four days    

• Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

• Caltech president resigns to focus on HIV research

• Brazil nears deal on anti-HIV drugs

• Vaccine May Help Prevent 'Gay Cancer' 

Updated October 1, 2005

General News

• Is poverty the root of AIDS?

• Mandela warns Global Fund for AIDS, TB, malaria running dry

• Thailand rolls out national AIDS drug plan

• Angelina Jolie notes AIDS spending less than Iraq war

• Tanzanian president concerned by rising numbers of AIDS orphans

• Clinton, Rice, Jolie Join HIV-AIDS Fight

• New Supply Chain Set Up for HIV Medicine

• Colleges Offer Students Oral HIV Tests

Corporate and Research News

• Heightened AIDS risk seen with pregnancy: study

• Aids virus 'could be weakening'

• Dark chocolate helps limit development of fluids that cause diarrhea

Updated September 26, 2005

General News

• China looks to cabbage in massive condom drive

• Clinton Foundation to provide free drugs to China's HIV/AIDS children

• Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky

• Asian nations face deadly TB-HIV threat-WHO

• First Lady Discusses African AIDS Crisis

Research and Corporate News

• World risks duplication in AIDS vaccine push -expert

• FDA OKs Generic Versions of AIDS Drug

• Testing doesn't stop HIV spread in porn industry

• India's Matrix says to buy 60 pct of China's Mchem

• Glaxo stumbles in race for new kind of AIDS drug

• S. African AIDS Expert Urges Circumcision

Updated August 21, 2005

General News

• WHO, US regulator reach deal on anti-AIDS drugs

• Nun or prostitute? Tibet's women face few choices

• Global AIDS fund quits Myanmar, cites restrictions

• Libya seeks Bulgarian "blood money" to save nurses

• R U OK? South Africans tackle AIDS with texts

• GHANA: AIDS treatment on rise, but stigma still around

• UN warns of possible HIV/AIDS explosion in Somalia

• Thailand warned of HIV infection rebound

Research and Corporate News

• Many have mixed feelings on HIV vaccine research

• The HIV Vaccine Challenge

• Antibiotics-to-go may increase STD treatment

• Crocodile blood may yield powerful new drugs

• Rectal bacteria may lower vaginal infection risk

• Seven Indian AIDS Drugs Reinstated

Updated August 13, 2005

General News

• Chinese Government Launches First HIV/AIDS Training Center 

• Infectious diseases kill 754 people in July in China

• WHO Chief Urges Unconventional Approaches

• Indonesia Minister opposes condom use to fight HIV

• Mozambique raises HIV infection rate

• In Washington D.C. HIV/AIDS Cases Among Highest in the US

• Indian Hospitals Refuse HIV-Pos Patients    

Research and Corporate News

• New HIV Treatment Strategy Shows Promise

• German scientists discover new HIV weakness

• Gilead Says HIV Combo Pill Again Fails to Work As Well As Separate Treatments

• Poor AIDS treatment fails SAfrica rape victims -study

• HIV: an ever-changing epidemic

• Feds Say Half of Gay Men Who Have HIV Don't Know It, Notes AHF

• HIV-meth combo injures brain, study says

Updated August 7, 2005

General News

• SA minister cleared in Aids row

• Gay Australian files suit over blood ban

Research News

• New York's AIDS 'superstrain' could be two mediocre strains

• Girls abused by dates at higher STD risk

• New TB vaccine design called for in poor nations

• Circumcision Not a Cure-all for AIDS

• Circumcision Protects Men Against HIV Infection

Updated August 1, 2005

General News

• AIDS battle needs greater political backing, conference told

• INTERVIEW - WHO will fail to meet AIDS drugs goal

• British Government to double aid to fight killer diseases

• Malaysians ignorant about HIV spread: survey

• A good reason to be a virgin...

• Methadone urged for AIDS fight in ex-Soviet states

• Aging and HIV key challenges over next 50 years

• Clinton Dedicates New Lesotho AIDS Clinic

• Peacekeepers Still Fail in AIDS Protection

Corporate and Research News

• Circumcision prevents urinary tract infection

• Study confirms drug cocktails reduce rates of AIDS

• Aggressive HIV strain appears to be isolated case

• Glaxo speeds up testing in race for new AIDS drug

• India to Fight AIDS With Female Condoms

• Experts Say Afghan Heroin Spreading AIDS

• Abbott Laboratories Gets FDA Clearance for Blood Analyzer

• Emory University Sells HIV Drug Royalties

Updated July 17, 2005

General News

• China boosts fight against HIV/AIDS among women

• Yao Ming and other NBA stars attended AIDS awareness activity in China

• Thailand offers anti-retroviral drugs to all Thais with HIV/AIDS virus 

• Singapore to inform spouses of HIV patients

• HIV/AIDS in southern Africa takes toll on grandparents caring for orphans

• AIDS killing many young Indians

• Laura Bush Calls Attention to AIDS Battle

• Bill Clinton to push AIDS initiative on Africa tour

Corporate and Research News

• India clears human trials for second AIDS vaccine

• US needle exchange programs declining

• Rise in needle exchanges, study shows

• Study: 6.5M South Africans May Have HIV

Updated July 4, 2005

General News

• AIDS is Asia's "silent tsunami"

• AIDS risk spreading in Asia higher than ever-U.N.

• China at turning point in AIDS fight-WHO

• AIDS treatment in India, China seen key to epidemic

• WHO likely to miss '3 by 5' AIDS drug target

• Sex workers on frontline of Asia's AIDS battle

• Women becoming new face of AIDS in Asia

• Stigma of AIDS still hampers war on killer virus in Asia: experts

• Muslim nations face AIDS reality

• More aggressive government programs needed to fight AIDS in Asia-Pacific

• Japan faces potential AIDS-tuberculosis dual-epidemic, experts say

Corporate and Research News

• Correctly used condoms do reduce STD risk

• How AIDS drugs save lives

• Pfizer drops development of two drugs

• Newer HIV/AIDS drugs too expensive says MSF

• Gates to Fund Millions in Health Research

• Bristol-Myers, Baylor Plan AIDS Initiative

General News

• China tells UN it is capable of curbing exploding HIV/AIDS epidemic

• Chinese campaign launched to fight discrimination against AIDS orphans

• China and WHO to provide AIDS intervention for homosexuals

• AIDS discrimination in China rife -vice minister

• China Asked Not to Harass AIDS Activists

• Mandela urges rich world to act against AIDS

• Japan's AIDS stigma hampers treatment, activists say

• Zambian army wins praise for battle against AIDS

• Blacks hardest hit by HIV in US - report

• HIV positive African clergy fight AIDS stigma

• AIDS funding must triple to $22 bln in 2008 - U.N.

• NIGERIA: Patient fees preventing access to AIDS drugs, activists

• NIGER: Hazardous sex and no AIDS treatment in frontier trucking town

Corporate and Research News

• Glaxo inks AIDS vaccine deal with non-profit group

• US approves Boehringer drug for resistant HIV

• U.S. clears two generic AIDS drugs for global plan

• Internet fuels risky sex in gay, bisexual men-study

• Racial gap seen in gay sex HIV rates

• AIDS: Risk behaviour rising among French gays

• Brazil Threatens to Break AIDS Drug Patent

Updated June 12, 2005

General News

• China's migrant workers a high AIDS risk - expert

• China urges needle exchanges, free condoms in newly aggressive AIDS strategy

• Report: 24,500 HIV-AIDS patients in Myanmar lack anti-retroviral drugs

• Mandela to urge rich world to act against AIDS

• S.Africa urged to quadruple patients on AIDS drugs

• Global Fund grant to Russia to boost AIDS drugs

• Singapore bars gay party for "public interest"

• S.Africa minister asks if drugs alone can stop HIV

Research News

• Science hopes to give women new tools against AIDS

• Threatened chimps may hold key to AIDS mystery

• Call for $3 bln to fund neglected disease research

• Drug-resistant TB coming to U.S. from abroad-study

• TB still claiming two millions deaths a year: studies

• AIDS testing key to Africa drug plans - expert

Updated May 31, 2005

General News

• Clinton tells Indians no time to waste in fighting AIDS

• India says growth of new HIV infections slows

• Indian AIDS groups dismiss gov't claims of huge infection rate drop

• Britain urges EU to boost fight against AIDS

• England football stars fight AIDS in Malawi

• Condom ads stir new battle in US culture wars

• Muslim couples forced to undergo HIV tests before marriage

Corporate News

• Glaxo, UK firm settle AIDS drug diversion case

Updated May 2, 2005

General News

• Chinese region aims to provide free AIDS treatment for up to 20,000

• Mandela to take AIDS fight to Arctic

• Pakistan on the brink of widespread HIV/AIDS Epidemic

• Man jailed for knowingly infecting lover with HIV

• India signs pact with UNAIDS to battle HIV/AIDS in defence forces

• Annan's wife urges Indian police to treat HIV/AIDS sufferers with dignity

• Vietnam to punish discrimination against HIV carriers

• 11 States Have Waiting Lists for AIDS Drugs

• Don't let new viruses distract from old killers-UN

• Judge takes on S.Africa's AIDS "denialists"

Corporate and Research News

• AIDS research: Lab pioneers open up new paths

• Late Diagnosis of HIV Persists in the UK

• Many HIV-Positive Gay Men Unaware They're Infected

• Cervical Cancer Virus Reactivates Sometimes -Study

• Gilead proceeds w/ 2nd evaluation of HIV treatment

Updated April 24, 2005

General News

• China Arrests 15 in AIDS Blood Donor Scandal

• Action movie star Jackie Chan on AIDS mission in Vietnam

• Rights groups dismayed over mufti's call to isolate AIDS victims

• India disputes HIV infection claims

• India has overtaken South Africa for biggest HIV toll

• Iran records over 10,000 HIV/AIDS cases

• Clinton plans to provide AIDS treatment to 60,000 children worldwide

• Migrant Workers Being Educated on HIV

Corporate and Research News

• Gel could offer women greater chance to combat AIDS than vaccine: UNAIDS

• Woman tests positive for both HIV, bird flu in a first in Vietnam

• Most Condoms in India Used to Make Saris

• Study: N.M. Gay Men Not Getting HIV Tests

• Teens' Stress Begins Before a Parent with HIV Dies

Updated April 10, 2005

General News

• India Plans Law to Stop Discrimination Against AIDS

• African AIDS activists describe late pope as obstacle in AIDS prevention

• Panel: AIDS Study OK Despite Violations

• New Study Reduces Tanzanian HIV Prevalence to 7 Pct
  

Corporate and Research News

• Britain pledges funds for anti-HIV gel trials

• Japanese scientists predict breakthroughs over next 30 years, report says

• Study: Teens View Oral Sex As Less Risky

• Depression Therapy May Help HIV Treatment

• JT, Torii to launch 2 Gilead HIV drugs in Japan

• Cannabis Compound Slows Artery Disease in Mice

Updated April 3, 2005

General News

• U.S. Abstinence Calls Hurt Uganda AIDS Success

• More than 4,000 South African teachers succumbed to AIDS last year

• Report says 80 percent of HIV-positive in CIS below 30 years old

• World Bank gives Vietnam 35 million dollars for AIDS fight

• Bulgarian nurses appeal death penalty in Libya AIDS case

• US tells Libya to respect rights in AIDS case

• Benin gives free medication to 6,000 HIV sufferers

• Singapore minister upholds ban on gay Christian concert

• Zimbabweans battling AIDS also fight to get help

Corporate and Research News

• HIV Testing Advised for All Sexually Active People

• Rare Gay Male Sex Disease Enters Britain: Report

• Late developers' sex risk warning

• Mosquito-borne virus could point way to vaccine for HIV, cancer

• Kenyan businesses ignoring AIDS at their own peril: study

• Russia slashes AIDS treatment costs by more than two-thirds

• NYC Reports Drug-Resistant HIV Strain
  
  

Updated March 28, 2005

General News

• China Province to Test Workers for AIDS

• China Shuts Down Blood Dealers to Curb AIDS Spread

• Singapore moves against sexually active HIV/AIDS sufferers

• Singapore says no to gay Christian concert

• Japanese courts keep guilty verdict on bureaucrat over HIV blood

• Aid groups slam Indian passage of patent law ending manufacture of cheap copies of Western medicine

• India gets pat from WHO for war on TB, pledges to step up campaign

• Disease-plagued Africa set to lose without cash for genome research

Corporate and Research News

• AIDS virus destroys immune cells "fast"

• Study downplays HIV patients' need for repeated test

• Indian patent law could prove a tonic for Bangladesh drug firms

Updated March 20, 2005

General News

• China plans national database of HIV/AIDS victims as epidemic looms

• China urges business sector to help China fight AIDS

• Testing key to curbing AIDS

• African AIDS sufferers plea for India to drop patents bill

• South Africa once again stumbles on AIDS treatment plan

Corporate and Research News

• Gene study of mutant AIDS virus shows drug-resistant, vicious foe

• AIDS epidemic slowed by change in sexual habits: study

• AIDS Virus Came to Britain Six Times, Study Shows

• Singapore may ask HIV carriers to help trace sexual partners: report

• AIDS Cocktails Prevent Cancer, Study Finds

• Brazil Takes Step Toward Breaking AIDS Patents

• India Proposes End to Patent Drug Copying

Updated March 13, 2005

General News

• China launches human trials of AIDS vaccine

• Gay festival may be behind HIV surge in Singapore: minister

• Singapore govt AIDS comment outrages gay activists

• US under fire over needle exchanges for AIDS prevention

• AFRICA: Interview with Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director

• Brazil to build AIDS drugs factory in Mozambique

Corporate and Research News

• AIDS pioneer calls for "therapeutic" vaccine

• Steady rise in UK HIV infections

• Genetic legacy of plague outbreaks may help Europeans fights AIDS: report

• Singapore mulls HIV self-test kits as infections rise

Updated March 6, 2005

General News

• Rising use of injectible drugs may lead to HIV epidemic in Pakistan

• Afghanistan about to become a 'drug state', UN agency warns

• Africa faces up to 89 million new HIV-AIDS infections by 2025

• South Africa awards tenders to speed up rollout of AIDS drugs

Corporate and Research News

• Australian researchers report HIV therapy breakthrough

• New study brings good news about AIDS drugs

• HIV Patients May Run Out of Drug Options - Study

• Let The Market Find A Cure For AIDS

• U.S. Says Expects to Approve More Generic AIDS Drugs

Updated February 27, 2005

General News

• UNICEF calls on China to treat AIDS as a general public health issue

• Bill Clinton on low-key visit to China to promote AIDS awareness

• Hong Kong registers largest-ever gain in HIV cases

• Sweden and ADB set up multi-donor trust fund to fight HIV/AIDS

• US doctors who raised AIDS alarm in New York defend their decision

• HIV infection rate doubled in 10 years among US blacks

• New Indian drug patent rule hurts poor AIDS patients: US experts

• S.African health officials warn against bogus AIDS cure claims

• African AIDS front shows signs of hope

• HIV-positive Indian boy kicked out of school after other parents protest

• AIDS does not discriminate, warns Botswana's new Miss HIV

Research and Corporate News

• Scientists discover a key to how AIDS virus attacks the body

• Two new HIV-related viruses likely came from monkeys, scientists say

• AIDS vaccine needs more bang from fewer bucks: US

• AIDS drugs cocktail better than single nevirapine dose in newborns

• Life-Prolonging AIDS Cocktails Show Real Value

• New York Suburb Has First Case of Rare STD

Updated February 20, 2005

General News

• S. Africa's death rate jumps 57 pct, HIV/AIDS among biggest killers

• Mandela touts new AIDS concert, says 'not enough has been done'

• Gay concern over hyping AIDS 'superbug'

• British opposition party plans to test immigrants for tuberculosis, HIV

• India's eunuchs want respect in battle to stem AIDS spread

• Sweden to grant Tanzania 22 million dollars for HIV/AIDS treatment project

• Doctor rebuild penises cut off for AIDS cure
  

Research and Corporate News

• France suspends two AIDS vaccine trials amid safety doubts

• Japanese medical giant to invest in two private Bangladesh hospitals

• Drug Giants Race for Pill to Lock Out AIDS Virus

• Sudden Rises in HIV Levels No Concern, Report Says

• Saliva Holds Promise for Drug Testing

Updated February 12, 2005

General News

• Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spends Lunar New Year with AIDS victims

• US foreign aid up for HIV/AIDS, Millennium funds

• S.Africa's Mbeki Vows AIDS Action, Critics Persist

• Sweden and ADB to establish HIV/AIDS Trust Fund

• Sex workers must fight to survive men as well as AIDS in India

• NEPAL: Number of AIDS orphans on the rise

Research News

• Rare, drug-resistant HIV strain diagnosed in New York

• Many Parents with HIV Avoid Contact with Kids

• US physicians recommend routine testing for AIDS

Updated February 6, 2005

General News

• Mandela urges rich to feed the poor

• Global AIDS treatment efforts not on track

• Malawi Losing 10 People Per Hour to AIDS-Minister

• HIV link to trek tourism studied  

• Business turns bad for Chinese brothels in Afghan capital

• High-flier leads AIDS crusade in India for Bill Gates

• Recorded HIV/AIDS cases rise in Iran

Corporate and Research News

• Rare sex disease strikes in New York

• Poverty Worsening HIV Among U.S. Black Women - Study

• Gilead HIV combo beats Glaxo drug in trial

Updated January 30, 2005

General News

• AIDS: "Three by Five" goal shadowed by funding shortfall, says WHO

• Japan's AIDS experts alarmed as HIV infections hit record high

• Brown to top Gates with vaccine donation

• Chris Smith is HIV positive

• Chirac Calls for Global Tax to Fight AIDS

• BOTSWANA: Raising youth AIDS awareness like 'trying to fight a dead animal'

• Sexual health advice for students

• Aids group welcomes drug approval

Research and Corporate News

• Rise and Fall of Syphilis Said Normal