22 Apr 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. - By opening the door to competition from generic drugmakers, Ecuador is making a critical HIV/AIDS drug much more affordable for Ecuador’s public treatment programs - a move that other countries should follow, Public Citizen said.
Ecuador’s patent office issued a “compulsory license” for lopinavir/ritonavir, an important HIV/AIDS medicine. The license authorizes generic compet...
Brazilian Working Group of Intellectual Property
6 Apr 2010
This open letter has the intent to manifest the concerns from the Working Group on Intellectual Property (GTPI) from the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples (REBRIP) and other civil society groups in regards to the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU). The concern refer to its possible negative consequences for the procurement of cheap...
5 Mar 2010
The Brazilian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBT) Association (Associação Brasileira de Gays, Lésbicas, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais or ABGLT) recently launched an “LGBT Communication Manual” aimed at communication professionals, students and teachers to reduce the use of inappropriate language that prejudices, or perpetuates misunderstandings about the millions Braz...
Public Radio International
11 Jan 2010
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Exploring the effective and controversial strategies that have reduced the spread of HIV in Brazil in the last decade.
Brazil has implemented effective and controversial strategies to reduce the spread of HIV. Specifically, these strategies include collaborati...
25 Oct 2009
BRASILIA, Brazil – A new partnership between Brazil’s Catholic bishops and the federal Ministry of Health is designed to get more Brazilians into clinics to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Church and government officials are counting on church volunteers to reach the poorest Brazilians, people usually missed in official government campaigns.
The campaign was launched Oct. 23 i...
10 Sep 2009
Far more young people die in poorer countries than in wealthy countries every year, often from accidents, violence, or other causes that receive scant attention from global policymakers, a study from the World Health Organization found.
Globally, 2.6 million people between the ages 10 to 24 years old died in 2004, with 97% of the deaths occurring in poor and middle-income countries. Nearly two-...
23 Apr 2009
Vulnerable groups at the centre of the AIDS epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean find it hard to access money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria a new report commissioned by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance reveals.
Only 4% of the $170 million grants that were analysed in the report actually directly reached organisations run by groups most vulnerable to HIV such as m...
25 Nov 2008
CARTAGENA - On the days that Alberis Guerrero Peralta doesn't make soup to sell in her neighbourhood of Arjona, an impoverished community outside Cartagena, a city on Colombia's northern coast, she and her four children don't eat.
Like many of the families living in Arjona, armed conflict between leftist rebel groups, government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups forced the Peraltas to ...
6 Nov 2007
Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
Excellencies, Your Royal Highness. Distinguished guests, dear friends, I greet you on behalf of the Joint UN Programme on AIDS with its 10 cosponsoring agencies.
I first want to congratulate Adrian Zelaya, Arely Cano and the whole team for putting together such an impressive programme.
Over the past eight years, since the first meeting in Honduras,...
23 Oct 2007
Tegucigalpa - The rapid spread of HIV & AIDS in Latin America is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday.
Some 1.7 million people across Latin America are infected with the HIV virus or full-blown AIDS, and the epidemic is spreading swiftly with up to 410,000 new cases in 2006 according to UNAIDS.
"In Latin America the use of cond...
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