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• Success and failure in HIV treatment: contrasting lessons from South Africa

  Julian Meldrum | 22 August 2003

  Contrasting stories about using antiretrovirals where resources are limited emerge from two letters in the latest issue of the journal AIDS. One tells of the progress made by Médecins Sans ...

• European Union underpins tiered pricing for HIV, TB and malaria drugs

  Julian Meldrum | 28 May 2003

  Earlier this week, the European Union adopted a new regulation to prevent the re-importation of drugs exported under a 'tiered pricing' system. This measure is intended to secure sustainable global ...

• WHO elections to spotlight global response to AIDS

  Julian Meldrum | 17 January 2003

  The shape of the global response to HIV/AIDS is likely to be changed, one way or another, by the election next week of a successor to Gro Harlem Brundtland at ...

• Gilead to offer tenofovir at no profit in Africa

  Keith Alcorn | 17 December 2002

  Gilead has announced it will sell its nucleotide analogue tenofovir (Viread) at `no profit` in Africa and 15 other least developed nations from early next year. Gilead will sell tenofovir at ...

• EU tackles illegal trade in developing countries` HIV drugs

  Edwin J. Bernard | 31 October 2002

  The European Commission yesterday announced a policy that should prevent the illegal trade of deeply discounted antiretrovirals meant for export to the world's poorest countries from being re-imported and sold ...

• Fathers and children

  Julian Meldrum | 12 October 2001

  In a plenary session of the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) Dr Susan Paxton of Melbourne University, who is herself HIV positive and a ...

• Alarms Sound in Asia and the Pacific

  Julian Meldrum | 06 October 2001

  Immediately before the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), in Melbourne, Australia, independent experts supported by UNAIDS met from 30 September to 2 October as ...