June 27: National HIV Testing Day
June 27 marks National HIV Testing Day, an annual campaign coordinated by the National Association of People with AIDS to encourage people of all ages to “Take the Test, Take Control.”
Paybacks, smaller asset plan to aid U.S. bailout cash
The dwindling U.S. financial bailout fund will get a boost this week with repayments from some large banks and could see more resources freed up as once-ambitious programs to buy up toxic bank assets shrink.
Maternal and newborn survival rates not improving-WHO
Mothers and newborns are no more likely to survive today than two decades ago, with prospects worst in countries battling AIDS, conflict and poverty, the World Health Statistics 2009 report showed on Thursday.
World Bank triples funds for healthcare amid crisis
The World Bank is set to triple healthcare spending in developing countries to $3.1 billion this year amid signs governments are cutting funding in the midst of a global economic crisis.
Vatican defends pope condoms stand
The Vatican Wednesday defended Pope Benedict's opposition to the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS as activists, doctors and politicians criticized it as unrealistic, unscientific and dangerous.
Merck's Pricing of AIDS treatment in Mexico is criticized
An AIDS healthcare foundation urged Merck executives to change the company's pricing and access policies as it announced a new campaign in advertisement that criticizes an increase of up to six times the price of its AIDS drug Stocrin in Mexico and other middle-income countries.
Microsoft, Dell partnership to help fight AIDS in Africa
Microsoft and Dell on Wednesday said they will team up to release a Product Red computer and donate $80, for every computer sold, to Global Fund for AIDS medication in Africa.
U.N. slashes AIDS estimates in latest report
The United Nations has slashed its estimates of how many people are infected with the AIDS virus, from nearly 40 million to 33 million.
Fraud and the $5 million wheelchair
Medical billing fraud against the U.S. government is pervasive, even rivaling the drug trade as the crime of choice in Florida.
Pfizer wins U.S. approval for new HIV drug
Pfizer Inc said on Monday that U.S. regulators approved its AIDS drug, Selzentry, the first in a new class of oral HIV medicines.
Glaxo to supply cut-price AIDS drugs to Russia
GlaxoSmithKline Plc, the world's leading maker of HIV/AIDS treatments, has struck a deal to supply cut price AIDS drugs to Russia
Soros gives $50 mln to tackle African poverty
Billionaire financier George Soros pledged $50 million on Wednesday to help the United Nations tackle extreme poverty and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
World Bank President Sees Hope for Africa
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is optimistic for the future of economic opportunities in Africa after returning from an eight-country trip through the continent.