Microbiology
Drug-resistant AIDS: The next tsunami
IPN Opinion article
Although billions were pledged for AIDS at the recent G8 meeting, the neglected issue of drug resistance is now starting to simmer ó and it will soon make current financial commitments seem puny, while damaging the economies of countries already ravaged by HIV/AIDS.
WHO's Got its Facts Wrong?
IPN Opinion article
The World Health Organisation makes great sport of taking the pharmaceutical industry to task for its inability to provide everyone in the developing world with the drugs they need. This so-called market failure is being used at negotiations in Geneva this month to bring research and patents under official control, managed by the WHO--but the WHO has trouble managing itself.
The AIDS pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness
Professor James Chin challenges some conventional wisdoms about the threat posed by HIV/AIDS
Thai licensing policy fatal for HIV/AIDS sufferers
IPN Opinion article
The Thai military government has recently decided to expropriate the patents of a series of drugs. Although these 'compulsory licenses' have been applauded by populist NGOs, this development poses a very grave risk to patient safety.
Globalization's nasty bite
IPN Opinion article
An outbreak of chikungunya in Italy has been blamed on global warming but this cold-weather mosquito is actually carried by the trade in used tyres. As world leaders discuss far-reaching climate policies, it is time to stick to the science and nothing but the science.
Death in the shade of world's attention
IPN Opinion article
Millions of cancer and cardiovascular deaths could be cheaply averted in poorer countries, but it seems sometimes that HIV/AIDS is the only thing on the radarscreen of politicians and journalists.
Critics ignore progress on AIDS
IPN Opinion article
THE 60 international scientists who called this week for the resignation of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for her 'inadequate' and even 'lunatic' AIDS treatment programme ignore that SA is now one of the leaders in the developing world in providing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
