The new rule

Of the people. By the people. But against the people?

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

Withdrawal symptoms

Drug firms abandon their case against South Africa over the pricing of AIDS medicines

Aided by war

AIDS may rise in Pakistan

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World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report

The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets

AIDS virus weakening

Claims Belgian study

Antibody reduces levels of HIV virus in body during clinical trial

Results considered a milestone in the search for more effective treatment of HIV

Tanzania

What price, gorilla meat

African bushmen stand the risk of contracting deadly viruses from bushmeat

Shelling out remedies

Marine organisms like bivalves hold cures for viral diseases

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

In Short

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

HIV patients with social protection stay in jobs longer: ILO

New report calls for wider social protection net to include HIV patients

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Direct cash transfers reduce risk of exposure to HIV, says UNDP report

Cash payments help tackle poverty and improve access to education and healthcare

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

Integrate mpox with HIV, STI prevention & control programmes: WHO

New HIV guidelines on viral suppression unveiled at international AIDS conference

Over half the HIV infected people globally do not know their positive status: UN

Gap Report calls for scaling up efforts to end the disease by 2030

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Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

INDIA

FIGHTING AIDS