In June an HIV "implementers" conference brought 1, 500 doctors and public health experts to Rwanda to discuss how to get AIDS drugs to Africa.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), which spent years between drug approvals, last year had a promising new schizophrenia medicine approved and may get an AIDS drug onto the market this year.
Perhaps this explains, at least in part, why 75% to 80% of adults with hearing loss do not get hearing aids, according to a recent study done by Virginia Ramachandran, a senior staff audiologist in the Division of Audiology of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Relatively new diseases like AIDS get most of the attention, but ancient killers once thought to be under control are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America: malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis (also known as dum-dum fever).
We must get the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria fully funded.
This stands in contrast to AIDS where patients get cocktails of targeted pills that keep the HIV virus at bay for years.
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Activists argued that if all those who needed AIDS drugs could get them via this kind of funding, the very increase in the scale of production would drive drug costs down, which would in turn fuel further market growth, creating a virtuous cycle.
We don't know if Apple plans to use its learning in any kind of shipping product, although it's undoubtedly been interested in the category before -- and its ambitions of having iPhone-optimized hearing aids could well get a lift from technology that promises real understanding, not just a boost in volume.
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If Latinos are being diagnosed with advanced HIV infection and are quickly progressing to AIDS, they are missing important opportunities to get the maximum benefits of the highly effective treatments we currently have available.
Shiver and a colleague, Merck Senior Vice President of vaccine research Emilio Emini , approached Aventis several years ago about testing Aventis' vaccines in Merck's monkeys, hoping to get some perspective on the differences between different types of AIDS inoculations.
As a consequence, subsidies and aids are not restricted to the health sector, social aids and retirement pensions only: every industry wants its share of money and will eventually get it.
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