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Rising cocaine consumption in Western Europe has increased the incidence of euro laundering. Consumption in some nations has doubled or even tripled, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The euro has neared $1.50, making Europe a more lucrative place for drug cartel business.

The South African government has announced it will provide AIDS-drug regimens to patients for free. The nation has the highest population level of HIV infection in the world, with 5.3 million of 45 million people testing positive. Health officials hope the program, if successful, will become a model for treatment.

Mining company Anglo American PLC has put on hold its feasibility study to offer antiretrovirals, AIDS medicine, to its African employees. The firm's recent decision will probably be seen as a setback in the attempt to offer AIDS treatment in Africa.

White House Station, NJ-based Merck and Company Inc. and other major pharmaceutical companies will drastically lower the costs on drugs used to treat persons with HIV/AIDS. The drug makers, which have been heavily criticized by health care organizations and activists, were praised by the World Health Organization.

Viktor Cherkessov, the head of Russia's drug enforcement agency, said that the U.S. must do more to stop the flow of heroin from Afghanistan. Cherkessov said the U.S. is not using its full resources to stop heroin smuggling from Afghanistan.

Merck and Co. will lower the price of its Stocrin AIDS drug to under $1 (1 euro) per day in the most impoverished nations in the world. Activists approved of the price cut. However, they also believe that the cut was a publicity move by Merck.

Shionogi-GlaxoSmithKline, Merck and Co., Tibotec-Virco, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, and Schering-Plough are all developing anti-HIV medications for fighting infection.

Discusses how science in Africa has demonstrated that HIV causes AIDS as of July 2000. Overview on the discovery of its patients with HIV; Views on the scope of the epidemic of AIDS. INSET: Testing the Test.

Reports on the treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda, Africa. Percentage of adults infected with the disease; Cost of putting all of Africa's AIDS patients into treatment; Health and social conditions of AIDS victims in the country; Comparison between Western doctors and healers. INSET: Of Patients and Pills.

Deals with the protests of AIDS activists in South Africa to urge their government to act on the control of the AIDS virus. Blunders made by the administration of President Nelson Mandela; Racial and economic implications of the Apartheid system; Activities of the organization Treatment Action Group.

Focuses on the possible role of African prostitutes in developing an HIV vaccine. Basis of the notion; Problems with other methods against AIDS; Mechanism of HIV virus.

Examines the theory that AIDS originated in African chimpanzees. Evidence of its origin; Protests of Africans on its origin; How HIV virus may have passed from animals to humans.

Discusses the AIDS prevention efforts in Zimbabwe. Criticism of the government's response to AIDS; Contribution of the Insiza Godlwayo AIDS Council to the fight against AIDS; Remarks from Alan Whiteside of the University of Natal.

Features Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a musician in Lagos, Nigeria. Purpose of his commune Kalakuta Republic; Career background of Anikulapo-Kuti; Opinion on his music; Implications of his commune's lifestyle on the spread of HIV.

Reports on the rapid increase of HIV in South Africa and its mining communities. Sex trade in the mines; Miners in East Drefontein gold mine who are HIV-positive; Comments from doctors.

Provides information on Relenza, a drug for the treatment of viral infections such as flu developed by Glaxo Wellcome. Clinical testing conducted on the drug; Application for the drug's approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration; Importance of molecular biology in developing drugs for viral infections.

Focuses on the psycho-sexual theories of psychotherapist Sigmund Freud. Information on the exhibition `Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture,' at the Library of Congress in New York; Contentions of Freud's critics; Discussion on the controversy about Prozac, a drug for treating psychological problems.

Presents a model for AIDS treatment activism. HIV Treatment Data Project (TDP) by author-activist Larry Kramer; Debate over the reliability of information provided by TDP; Web site by Lotus company designed for HIV victims.

Focuses on the 1998 World AIDS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Findings on the severe effect of HIV; System that can help control HIV virus; Treatment of the disease. INSET: The treatment gap.

Focuses on the ongoing debate over whether to report the names of all people who is tested as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive to United States health department. Comments from pro-HIV advocates; Implications of the proposed name reporting; Roles of government officials on the name reporting issue. INSET: Partner notification: The other debate.

Focuses on the concerns in gene manipulation. Narration of examples on how genetic tests and knowledge affect man's life; Discussion about the perfect-child syndrome and cloning; Use of human cloning to increase the number of organ donors.

Part VI. Reports on the research regarding the scientists' use of genes to attack everything from cancer to aging. Details on the research conducted by Jeffrey Isner, chief of vascular medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston; Effect of Isner's experiment in Damian Ivanof's ailment; Significance of Deoxy Ribonucleic Acid; Gene therapy trials in the United States. INSET: The drug pharm.

Discusses deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) testing as evidence in criminal cases. Role of DNA in freeing Kevin Lee Green from jail; United States government criminal DNA data banks; Bias on the use of DNA in criminal courts. INSETS: No appeal.;The finger of god?..

Part III. Focuses on the role of genetics in tracing ancestral origins. How the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can settle questions on human history; Examples of tracing history using DNA; Comments of Fatimah Jackson, University of Maryland anthropology and biology professor on the implications of genealogy; Significance of mitochondrial DNA. INSET: Roots, DNA style..

Part I. States that in the early next century, researchers will present a complete blueprint of human DNA and along with it a multitude of potential ethical, legal and cultural crises. Bill being debated by the Congress that would forbid employers and health insurers from discriminating based on genetic information; Issues that merely touch the surface of what will arise as genetic manipulation; Fundamental concept of genetics.

Provides information on the notion of scientists that homosexuality can be genetically altered. Techniques done by scientists to alter sex; Brief account on the works done by Simon LeVay, Ronald M. Green and Dean Hamer; Findings on the genes involved in sexual orientation; Limitations on the research on sexual orientation.

Reports on the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in New York. How HIV-negative people are getting infected; Consequences due to the reinfection of HIV-positive individuals; Identified major subtypes of HIV; Terminologies and meanings used by researchers; Comments made by Carlos Maldonado of the Latino Commission on AIDS; More information. INSET: The needle nightmare..

Focuses on the conference on AIDS disease held in South Africa. Discussion on the problems afflicting people with AIDS in developing countries; Efforts to save the lives of people with AIDS; Comments from people who are afflicted by the disease; Drugs needed by AIDS patients.

Focuses on HIV-positive women in Africa. Study on AIDS cases in Uganda; Information on the Society of Women Against AIDS; Efforts to convince men to take responsibility on the education of AIDS.

Presents information on the Homosexuals Anonymous and Desert Stream, a fundamentalist ministry that offers intense program to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. Reason of some people for trying not to be gay; Why the movement to heal gays has suddenly gained media credibility; Challenges faced by gays in transforming.

Focuses on the results of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the genetic engineering method used to cure flawed genes. Methodology used in the study; Insights of several gene therapists on the results; Significance of the results; Background information about the human genetic code.