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United Nations Panel Lowers its Politically Correct AIDS Estimate

Michael Fumento

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / February 01, 2008

The United Nations' AIDS program has issued its annual report in which, finally, it doesn't say how many more current HIV infections there are this year ... (read more)

Mass. Requires Name Reporting for HIV Testing

Charlotte LoBuono

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / February 01, 2007

Beginning this month, Massachusetts will require doctors to report to the state health department the name of anyone testing positive for the human immunodeficiency ... (read more)

New Federal HIV Testing Protocols Unveiled

Hilary Oswald

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / November 01, 2006

In a sweeping revision of federal guidelines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended in September that doctors include HIV tests ... (read more)

Patent Protection and Brazil's HIV/AIDS Program

Roger Bate and Richard Tren

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2006

Brazil has rolled out a successful and widely respected AIDS treatment program, which has relied in part on producing cheap, generic versions of antiretroviral ... (read more)

U.S., Brazil Dispute Patent Protection

Roger Bate and Richard Tren

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / March 01, 2006

Long before the 2001 Doha ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Brazil and the United States were engaged in their own intellectual ... (read more)

AIDS Drugs: Is Patent the Obstacle?

Thompson Ayodele

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / September 01, 2004

The 15th International AIDS Conference was held July 11-16 in Bangkok, Thailand. At the end of the conference, almost all the 17,000 delegates, including ... (read more)

HIV Aid to Africa Will Encounter Obstacles

John R. Graham

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / September 01, 2003

HIV/AIDS is mostly a tragedy of the developing world. Forty-two million people are infected with HIV, of which only 1.6 million are in North America, ... (read more)

Patent Falsehoods

Carol Adelman and Jeremiah Norris

American Outlook / The Hudson Institute / April 01, 2003

AIDS: It’s Now up to Africa’s Leaders

Richard Tren

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / April 01, 2003

As the U.S. edges closer to war with Saddam Hussein, its global popularity seems to be ever diminishing. President George W. Bush’s decision to act on ... (read more)

AIDS Activists Hinder Their Cause

Roger Bate

Health Care News / The Heartland Institute / November 01, 2002

In September at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the head of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, told delegates he was upset that AIDS discussions were not ... (read more)