Obama takes first dip

The US becomes the first to join a global patents pool to make AIDS drugs cheaper but health workers are sceptical of the initiative

Access denied

Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis

A demon slumbers

Perhaps the largest potential AIDS factory in the world, India remains blissfully apathetic to a scourge that could rip its social fabric apart

Catching viruses

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …

Blame it on the foreign hand

The government's policy of screening long-staying foreigners for AIDS is an attempt to find a scapegoat for a national health problem

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

Global Fund withdrawal

Safeguarding foetuses

AIDS in Africa

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A common chord

Startling links

Viruses of many ailments, including common cold and HIV, have common genetic traits

Website review: http://www.fao.org/hivaids/

This multilingual website, maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, seeks to work as a centralised source of …

Danger averted

AIDS agency orders cheap drug

Stavudine disfigures, affects peripheral nervous system permanently  

News snippets

UN decisions must be open to public debate

Voicing the pain

THE END OF SILENCE: ART FOR AIDS SAKE·Organised by Gallery Mirage, New Delhi, and sponsored by National AIDS Control Organisation, New …

Now for book aid

Braveheart

AIDS aloud