News Source: News 24
| 25 days ago
The fight against HIV/Aids needs to be intensified, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday. "Reports from the Lancet Medical Journal says South Africa forms 0.7% of the global population, yet carries 17% of the HIV burden, he said. "We need...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 26 days ago
HIV treatment, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have warned. "Some of the spotlight has come off of HIV largely due to the fact that there has been tremendous success in scaling up," MSF spokeswoman Sharonann Lynch told AFP. "There are four million...
News Source: Washington Post
| 26 days ago
Billions of aid dollars channeled toward the epidemic over the past decade have helped provide life-prolonging drugs to more than 4 million people, but the rate of infection still outpaces that of treatment. Now the global economic crisis and other...
News Source: IRIN
| 26 days ago
Tuberculosis and Malaria, which largely relies on money from developed countries to award grants in 140 poor countries, will soon decide whether to cancel its 2010 call for funding proposals. If so, it will be the organization's first year since 2002...
News Source: The Examiner
| 26 days ago
Tuberculosis and Malaria would decide next week whether funding shortfalls would prevent them from taking on new programs...Bush is known, plans to keep funding at current levels for the next two years, even though needs are growing, MSF said.
News Source: News 24
| 26 days ago
Cutting funding for HIV/Aids treatment would condemn millions of poor people to death, international medical NGO Médicins sans Frontières said on Thursday, amid signs of Western governments starting to backtrack on their commitments. Two major...