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- Four years after it was passed unanimously by Parliament, a bill allowing low-cost AIDS drugs to be exported to Africa may finally produce results.Generic drug maker Apotex Inc. says it has been awarded a contract by the government of Rwanda to sell its three-in-one AIDS pill to that country, the final hurdle in the onerous process of making Canada's Access to Medicines Regime work.A company spokesperson says the first drugs should start being shipped in the fall, as long as none of the companies that hold the patents on the drugs withdraw their permission in the interval. Read more

According to an article published in The Lancet,adult mortality of hiv patients in Malawi has been significantlyreduced after the introduction of free antiretroviral therapy (ART).The effect, say researchers, is large enough to detect at thepopulation level.Malawi, a country of about 13 million people located in southeasternAfrica, sees some 80,000 deaths from AIDS each year. Between 2004 and2006, the country offered free ART to over 80,000 patients.

According to a new policy analysis led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of California, Berkeley, the most common hiv prevention strategies - condom promotion, hiv testing, treatment of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), vaccine and microbicide research, and abstinence - are having a limited impact on the predominantly heterosexual epidemics found in Africa.

The number of new hiv cases reported in Germany increased by 4% in 2007, according to data recently released by the Robert Koch Institute, Xinhua/People's Daily reports.

The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services will launch a pilot project to provide no-cost hiv testing and counseling in certain regions of the country to mark its National hiv testing Day on May 9, Namibia's New Era reports.

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