G8's $60 bln AIDS and Africa pledge criticized
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little fresh cash for the poor.
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Cheap drugs will not control the world's spiralling rates of HIV alone and poverty must be tackled, a charity warns.
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AUSTRALIA will provide $2 million to assist in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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Rock star activist Bono led attacks on the Group of Eight&#39;s 60-billion dollar pledge to fight killer diseases Friday, accusing world powers of using &quot;bureau-babble&quot; to hide their failure to help Africa.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States threatened Wednesday to withhold $120 million from the world&#39;s premier AIDS-fighting fund unless other countries paid their share.
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"We said that on behalf of the countries of the G-8, that we are aware of our obligations and we would like to fulfill the promises that we entered into and we are going to do that."  Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed Friday on a $60 billion package to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa and warned Iran over its disputed nuclear program, closing out a summit of the world's richer nations.But a deal could not be reached on the the independence-seeking Serbian province of Kosovo during three days of talks at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm.About half of the $60 billion was pledged earlier by the U.S., and other nations will contribute the rest, Germany's development minister said. Read more
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TORONTO (CP) - An ambitious initiative to provide life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs to three million people with HIV/AIDS by the end of next year likely won&#39;t meet its target, the director general of the World Health Organization has admitted.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced...
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 6 -- More than 80 international scientists and academics condemned South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki released Wednesday.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa and restated broader promises to double development spending.
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President Bush called on Congress today to provide $30 billion toward battling the global AIDS crisis over the first five years after he leaves office, a doubling of the current U.S. commitment.
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The world&#39;s richest nations need to show greater commitment towards Africa, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, amid concern that pledges on aid and development were falling short.
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Fighting Africa's poverty and the spread of Aids top the agenda at the Davos World Economic Forum.
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Britain's treasury chief called Thursday for half a trillion dollars in new aid for poor nations, particularly in Africa, a continent where Prime Minister Tony Blair said a tsunami-scale death toll happens every week.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.
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The government said Tuesday it would donate one billion pounds (1.4 billion euros, two billion dollars) over eight years to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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A series of articles critical of past trials of an important AIDS drug has created a furor in Africa, causing many public health experts to worry that some countries will stop using