Tag: aids
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Global fund raises $12.9 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria
By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – A global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday. The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a…
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Montreal concert aims to end AIDS, malaria and TB
US R&B star Usher and Canadian indie rock groups Metric and Half Moon Run will headline a free concert in Montreal next month aimed at ending AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Advocacy group Global Citizen, the concert sponsor, said the September 17 show would be held at the city's Bell Centre a day after an international…
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‘Sugar daddies’ and ‘blessers’: A threat to AIDS fight
Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. In South Africa, seven million people live with HIV — and older men are thought to be largely to blame for the shockingly high rate of infections among teenage girls and young women. Age-gap…
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‘Sugar daddies’ and ‘blessers’: A threat to AIDS fight
Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. In South Africa, seven million people live with HIV — and older men are thought to be largely to blame for the shockingly high rate of infections among teenage girls and young women. Age-gap…
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Queen Latifah, grannies join mass anti-AIDS rallies in S.Africa
US singer and actress Queen Latifah joined a mass anti-AIDS march in the South African city of Durban Saturday, where grandmothers bringing up children orphaned by the disease also took to the streets. Holding up signs that read “I care, do you?”, around a thousand grandmothers walked in a colourful procession to draw attention to…
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US lifts lifetime ban on gay blood donations
The United States on Monday formally lifted its lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men, replacing the rule with a 12-month waiting period after last sexual contact. The decision by the US Food and Drug Administration brings US policy in line with several other developed nations, including France, Japan and Australia, which all recently…
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Martin Shkreli says securities fraud charges are ‘baseless’
By Frank McGurty NEW YORK (Reuters) – Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving AIDS drug, said on Saturday that unrelated securities fraud allegations that resulted in his arrest this week were “baseless and without merit.” Federal prosecutors have alleged that Shkreli was running a Ponzi-like scheme at…
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New York drug bust nets 136 pounds of cocaine worth estimated $3 million
Mark Soto and Xavier Herbert-Gumbs, face felony drug possession charges after authorities said they found a total of 136 pounds (61.7 kg) of cocaine in their vehicles in the Bronx, according to a statement by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor in New York. “This is the largest cocaine seizure that our office has…