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NEWS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS



Update on International AIDS

International HIV/AIDS [AIDS Reference Guide, March 2002]: The following summarizes several different issues relevant to international HIV/AIDS:

  • Global Fund: The fund has raised $1.9 billion and expects to distribute $700 million this year.
  • HIV has caused 25 million deaths to date. Bubonic plague killed 40 million in Asia and Europe in the 1930s, and HIV is expected to overtake this number to make it the "world's worst pandemic."
  • A WHO report claims that HIV-related deaths could be cut by 25% by 2010 and deaths attributed to TB and malaria could be cut by 50% at a cost of $12 billion/year (see www.who.int/infectious-disease-report/2002).
  • Vietnam announced plans to begin production of generic copies of patented antiretroviral drugs as soon as the copyright issues are addressed. A similar announcement was made from Zimbabwe.
  • China plans to test all blood donated for transfusions to detect HIV, hepatitis viruses and other blood-borne diseases. It is now stated that China has 28,133 HIV-infected persons, but the true number may exceed 600,000. Transfusions are a major source of this epidemic.


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