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Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy ** Integrated Policy Exercise ** January 2003

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News Clippings

 

Google News: http://news.google.com/

Yahoo AIDS: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=health&cat=aids___hiv

 

 

Finance

  1. Global AIDS Grants Demand Will Likely Exceed Fund's Size --- Sum Available Is About $700 Million -- Below the $2 Billion Pledged --- Many Poor Nations Won't Get Much, if Anything

  2. Global AIDS Fund Near Bankrupt, Activists Warn

  3. Global Fund Needs $2 Billion Next Year, Officials Say

  4. U.N. Disease Fund Opens Way to Generics

  5. The next wave; AIDS

  6. Bush Proposes Spending $500 Million on AIDS

  7. AIDS-Fighting Fund Has Yet to Donate --- Demands by U.S., Others For New Delivery System Delays Flow of Money

  8. Protesters in U.S., Abroad Urge Coca-Cola to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment to Workers in Africa

  9. Gates Gives $100 Million to Fight AIDS in India (outside link)

  10. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Urges Trade Ministers to Find Long-Term Solution to Increase Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs (outside link)

  11. Charities 'Striving To Turn Around' Donor Fatigue in Fight Against AIDS Pandemic, New York Times Reports (outside link)

  12. AIDS and malaria costs Uganda a billion dollars, says president (outside link)

  13. Global Fund Cancels First-Ever Disbursement of Money to Tanzania for Malaria Prevention (outside link)

  14. Global Fund Signs First Grant Agreements; Ghana to Receive $6.5 Million for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (outside link)

  15. Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Needs More Money, Opinion Piece States (outside link)

  16. Delayed Action in Fight Against AIDS Means Increased Long-Term Costs, Peter Piot Writes in Opinion Piece (outside link)

  17. Hundreds of Protestors In Washington, D.C., Demand Increase in Bush Administration Contribution to Global AIDS Fund (outside link)

  18. Fighting AIDS With a Sound Investment (outside link)

  19. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses Foreign Diplomats, Urges Importance of Political Leadership in Fight Against HIV/AIDS (outside link)

  20. U.N. Special Envoy Stephen Lewis Calls Western Response to African AIDS Crisis 'Woefully Inadequate' (outside link)

  21. Zambia Needs $270 Million To Fight AIDS, Finance Minister Says (outside link)

  22. State Department Asking for 'Substantial' Budget Increases for International AIDS Fight (outside link)

     

 

Targeting

  1. H.I.V. Survey in South Africa Suggests Plateau in Infections

  2. AIDS: A "state secret" is revealed

  3. Thailand's AIDS Patients File Suit (outside link)

  4. Study: AIDS Shortening Life in 51 Nations

  5. HIV/AIDS Remains 'Most Significant' International Demographic Concern, U.N. Report Says (outside link)

  6. U.N. Agencies and NGOs Urge Microcredit Institutions to Incorporate HIV/AIDS Education Into Lending Programs (outside link)

  7. AIDS leading cause of death among South African women (outside link)

  8. Poverty Forces Some Eritreans Into Prostitution (outside link)

  9. International AIDS experts say HIV skyrocketing in Ukraine (outside link)

  10. Chinese City Distributing Condoms, Province Providing Clean Needles Amid Rising AIDS Rates

  11. Report: Women Make Up 50 Percent of AIDS Epidemic (Reuters) (outside link)

  12. U.N. Says Vast Populations Mask Asian AIDS Crisis (outside link)

  13. UNICEF Demands Action on AIDS Orphan Crisis (outside link)

  14. Students bear the scars as Zambia's AIDS plague takes away their teachers (outside link)

  15. More than half of Russian convicts are ill (outside link)

  16. U.N. Envoy: AIDS Root of Africa Food Crisis (outside link)

  17. China's Deadly Cover-Up (outside link)

  18. Women Catch Up to Men in Global H.I.V. Cases (outside link)

  19. Health Officials, AIDS Advocates 'Alarmed' By High AIDS Rates Among Gay Teenagers, Young Adults (outside link)

  20. New Study Reports Alarming Rates of HIV and HCV Among African American and Latino American Drug Injectors (outside link)

  21. AIDS Main Killer of S. Africa Women (outside link)

  22. Forty million orphans (outside link)

  23. UNICEF Releases State of the World's Children 2003 Report; Says HIV/AIDS 'Increasing Threat' to Children (outside link)

  24. U.N. Special Envoy Stephen Lewis Says Zambian AIDS Epidemic, Food Shortage Could Lead to 'Irreversible Destruction' (outside link)

 

Program Activity/Area

  1. Nearly $18M in Discounted AIDS Drugs Allocated for Africa Diverted by Wholesalers and Sold on European Market

  2. Drug Access | Global Fund to Encourage Developing Nations to Purchase Generic Drugs (outside link)

  3. WHO Says One-Third of World's Population Lacks Access to Necessary Drugs (outside link)

  4. Merck to Market Stocrin for Less Than $1 Per Patient Per Day in Developing Nations (outside link)

  5. E.U. Officials Unveil Plan to Regulate Shipping of Discounted AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Drugs to Developing Nations (outside link)

  6. India's HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts Could Be 'Model' for Other Countries, Bill Gates Says (outside link)

  7. Vatican Prefers Chastity to Condoms (outside link)

  8. AIDS and South African Business

  9. UN Disease Fund Opens Way to Generics

  10. S. Africa Mining Co. Rolls Out Anti-Aids Treatment (outside link)

  11. Zambian minister criticized for suggesting quarantining AIDS patients (outside link)

  12. AIDS Activists, Roche Cross Swords Over Drug Prices (outside link)

  13. AngloGold Begins Distribution of Antiretrovirals to HIV-Positive Workers (outside link)

  14. Paul Farmer Stresses Need to Include Treatment in AIDS Prevention Efforts (outside link)

  15. AIDS Prevention Saved Up to 1.5 Million - Study (outside link)

  16. World Bank Urges African Nations To Integrate HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts Into Education Systems (outside link)

  17. U.S. HIV Prevention Efforts May Have Prevented 1.5 Million Domestic HIV Infections and Saved Billions of Dollars, Study Says (outside link)

  18. Can Coke Prevent AIDS? (outside link)

  19. Groups discuss how to help Africans suffering from famine and AIDS (outside link)

  20. Choosing Virginity (outside link)

  21. S.Africa Takes Heart as Young Heed AIDS Warning (outside link)

  22. Strategic caring (outside link)

  23. New AIDS Coalition Aims to Boost Access to Drugs (outside link)

  24. All Participants Except United States Reaffirm Family Planning, HIV/AIDS Prevention Language in Bangkok Conference Plan of Action (outside link)

  25. Lancet Special Report Examines Direction New WHO Director General Should Take On Several HIV/AIDS-Related Issues

     

 

Patent Laws

  1. China Now Set to Make Copies of AIDS Drugs

  2. Patently problematic

  3. Imitation v inspiration

  4. Patent laws are keeping poor countries in poverty

  5. European Police Broaden Investigation Into Diversion of AIDS Drugs From African Nations

  6. WTO Chief 'Very Optimistic' That Plan to Broaden Access to Medicines Will be Developed by End of Year (outside link)

  7. Pfizer: Poverty, Not Patents, is the Problem in Africa

  8. Human Rights Watch Releases Paper Encouraging FTAA Summit Attendees to Reject Agreements Strengthening Patent Protection for HIV/AIDS Drugs (outside link)

  9. WTO Ministers Reach Agreement on Proposal to Increase Access to Medicines to Treat HIV/AIDS, Other Diseases in Developing Nations (outside link)

  10. French Authorities Question Man in Connection With Illegal Importation of Antiretroviral Drugs Into Europe From African Nations (outside link)

  11. WTO Ministers Pledge Action But Fail to Reach 'Definitive Agreement' on Broadening Access to Medicines for Poor Nations (outside link)

  12. Group of African Nations Applies to WTO for Permission to Manufacture AIDS Drugs (outside link)

  13. Cheap drugs deal boosts trade talks (outside link)

  14. Sydney Summit a step back for access to medicines (outside link)

  15. Chinese Pharmaceutical Firm to Manufacture First Domestically Produced Combination Antiretroviral Therapy (outside link)

  16. WTO Officials Begin Talks to Reach Agreement on Expanded Access to Medicines for Developing Nations (outside link)

  17. GlaxoSmithKline/South Africa Picketed By Hundreds of Treatment Action Campaign Activists (outside link)

  18. Patently troublesome (outside link)

  19. A continent of orphans (outside link)

  20. India Advised to Educate Young (outside link)

  21. Unleashing the trade winds (outside link)

  22. Fate of WTO Draft Agreement on Access to Low-Cost Medicines for Developing Countries 'In the Hands' of United States (outside link)

  23. U.S. Puts Best Face on WTO Drug Talks Collapse (outside link)

  24. AIDS Healthcare Foundation Announces Investment Opinion on GlaxoSmithKline (outside link)

  25. Reduced-Cost Antiretroviral Drugs Meant for Distribution in African Nations Sold on Black Market in Europe (outside link)

  26. 'Black Christmas' Hunger Strikers Turn Up Heat on GSK (outside link)