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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#666699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="images/04300840erlcjm.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>AIDS and Your Business</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AIDS and Your Business"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Death of a Continent "><U>Death of a Continent </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="International Organisations dealing with"><U>International Organisations dealing with HIV/AIDS </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AIDS and the South African Motor Industr"><U>AIDS and the South African Motor Industry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ford SA AIDS programme"><U>Ford SA AIDS programme</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prevention, treatment, diet fraudulent "><U>Prevention, treatment, diet & fraudulent health claims</U></A>   |   <B>News</B>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AIDS websites"><U>AIDS websites</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" background="images/03d11c00egdysm.gif"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.autocluster.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.autocluster.com"><U><B>www.autocluster.com</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#CCCCFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>m</B></FONT></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>News</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="286" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF HEIGHT= 378 WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Experts Say That Cheaper Drug Treatments Alone Are Not Enough</B></div> <div> Having won big price cuts for AIDS drugs sold in poor countries, groups in the fight against the epidemic are now pressing for a far broader line of attack. </div> <div> see www.newyorktimes.com</div> <bR> <div> <B>Generic Medicine for AIDS Raises New Set of Concerns</B></div> <div> Experts are divided over whether drug manufacture in developing countries is really the best way to ease the AIDS crisis.</div> <div> see www.newyorktimes.com</div> <bR> <div> <B>How Close is the AIDS Vaccine?</B></div> <div> Scientists have found an unconventional path that may lead to an imperfect--but nonetheless earthshaking--cure. </div> <div> see - http://www.FORTUNE.com</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>South Africa unlikely to fast track key AIDS drugs</B></div> <div> South Africa's success in winning a landmark case against the drug industry was tempered on Friday by signs that cheap AIDS medicines were unlikely to flood quickly into a country ravaged by the disease. - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.woza.co.za/reuters/apr01/drugcase20c.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.woza.co.za/reuters/apr01/drug"><U><U>WOZA</U></U></A></FONT> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tuberculosis follows footsteps of AIDS in Africa</B></div> <div> The number of cases of tuberculosis in Africa, already in the millions, will double over the next decade as HIV continues to spread across the continent, the United Nations warned today, calling for a concurrent effort to fight both infectious diseases - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.woza.co.za/reuters/apr01/drugcase20c.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.woza.co.za/reuters/apr01/drug"><U><U>WOZA</U></U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>World's rich say to fight poverty, boost health</B></div> <div> The world's richest countries and the most powerful multilateral financiers threw their weight behind huge poverty reduction and health improvement schemes for developing nations. "What we can achieve together, developing countries and developed countries, IMF and World Bank is so much greater than we can achieve on our own," Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said at a news conference - <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>WOZA</U></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>