Getting high on Sustiva (Efavirenz) in South Africa

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The BBC reports on South African Children as young as 15 shooting up with grounded HIV anti-retrovirals sometimes mixed with painkillers and marijuana. "I couldn't believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms," documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo told the BBC World Service's Outlook programme. "They ...

Luc Montagnier: an HIV vaccine as additional therapy rather than prophylaxis

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Photo courtesy of Polio Canada/Ontario March of Dimes In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, Prof Luc Montagnier co-discoverer with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, proposed “using vaccination against HIV antigens not for prophylaxis, but as additional therapy following a short antiviral treatment” Following a wave ...

Solving diminishing return on sale, Abbott way

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Abbott Laboratories Inc, one of the greediest and most despised Pharma in its league has agreed to pay between $10 million and $27.5 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AIDS patients over the company's 400 percent price hike of the HIV drug Norvir, the International Herald Tribune reports. Back in ...