Covance spars with animal rights activists
Slated for construction in Chandler, Ariz., the proposed facility represents the next significant capital investment for drug development giant...Professional Footballer's Case Worries AIDS Activists
Professional football player Trevis Smith's trial has attracted a lot of attention and HIV/AIDS activists are worried that it will mean negative publicity for those living with the disease.// Glenn Betteridge of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network said that painting all AIDS sufferers, as criminals would only serve to increase a false sense of security among people. "It's the wrong mes...Division Among Delegates To Dilute UN's AIDS Plans: Activists
As diplomats lock horns over the declaration to be issued after today's UN meet on AIDS, activists and victims fear the outcome will fail to effectively contain the epidemic that has claimed 25 million lives so far.// Hours before the declaration is to be issued, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asked diplomats not to negotiate away gains made in an earlier declaration in 2001. <b...HIV/AIDS Activists Plan Demonstration Outside Indian Embassy
Activists, professionals and organisations involved in the HIV/AIDS campaign plan to hold a peaceful demonstration outside the Embassy of India // tomorrow to protest the government's Drug Policy which is seen as putting global access to AIDS medication at risk. The organisers will be delivering a petition to the embassy urging India not to adopt new amendments that will limit affordab...AIIMS Doctors yet to Get Pay; Pro-Quota Activists Attack UPA Govt
The anti-quota agitators at AIIMS were still awaiting their salaries for the strike period, a day after the Supreme Court directed the Health Ministry to pay them for strike period. // AIIMS Registrar V P Gupta said the Institute authorities were "awaiting directions" on release of salaries to the anti-quota agitators. "We are waiting for directions," he said adding tha...