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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.

Features six New York residents with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and how they would be adversely affected by proposed spending cuts in medical welfare. Marlene and Margaretha Diaz; Kenneth Williams; John DeFazio; Nadine Hunter; Louise and Kristen Rivera; Idell Gillard.

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.

The article focuses on a partnership which has developed between two South Africans. South African entrepreneur Gilad Stern and Evelina Tshabalala have joined in an effort to make Ms. Tshabalala a national hero and celebrity pitch woman for AIDS patients. Stern had noted a lack of black women in mountaineering and picked Tshabalala, who is infected with the AIDS virus, to help him in climbing the highest mountains on each of seven continents.

Reports the move of Pfizer company to donate the drug fluconazole drug to South Africa to help treat patients with AIDS. Number of people afflicted with AIDS in South Africa; Reason for the move of Pfizer to donate the drug to South African government; Price of the drug in South Africa; Monopoly of Pfizer on the price of the drug.

Presents information on Dawn Young, HIV-positive individual who has been denied the federal disability program. Reasons for the denial from availing the program; How people with HIV are stranded in medical uncertainty; Provisions of the governor's disability program; Young's inability to find employment; More information.

Focuses on the services for AIDS patients in New York City. Establishment of the New York Division of AIDS Services (DAS); Regulations; DAS restructuring; Task forces; Agency flaws.

The article deals with the anticipated announcement by former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the price discounts secured by his foundation on medicines for AIDS patients in developing countries on January 12, 2006.

The article presents a reprint of the article "AIDS: The Agony of Africa," by Mark Schoofs, which appeared in the November 9, 1999 issue of "The Village Voice." It features regions in Africa which had been severely affected with AIDS, with Sahara as home to two-thirds of the world's HIV-positive people.

Discusses problems with drug procurement for AIDS victims and patients at the Mpilo Chest Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, with international assistance from the U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention and French group Doctors Without Borders.

Reports the Clinton Foundation, created by former United States President Bill Clinton, plans to announce deals with several of the world's leading medical companies to cut prices of two HIV diagnostic tests in developing nations. Comments from Jim Kim, adviser to the Director General of the World Health Organization, regarding the importance of diagnostic pricing; Concern among activists related to the test's ease of use in impoverished countries; Discussion of diagnostic pricing; View of doctors regarding the benefits of the tests on the drug treatment regimen given to patients; What the companies are including along with the test kits, including training and the machines necessary to run the tests; Companies that have signed the deal with the Clinton Foundation; Cost to the countries for the CD4 tests.

Reports on the growth in the number of AIDS patients at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa as of August 16, 2001.

Reports on the plan of Nigeria to use cheap generic AIDS drugs starting September 2001.

Focuses on studies on treatment interruption among AIDS patients.

Reports the plans of a research group in the United States to delay the treatment of AIDS patients.

Looks at a selection of articles which indicates that the AIDS epidemic is over. Information on AIDS; Efforts made by officials to introduce drugs which can assist with the virus; Impact of drugs on AIDS patients.

Reports on the failure of the New York Upper West Side's Community Board 7 and ACT UP to prod the government into giving adequate services for persons with AIDS (PWA) in New York City. Success in reversing a proposal to slap a moratorium on the placement of PWAs in commercial welfare hotels; Animosity between the Community Board 7 and ACT UP.

Considers the lack of health-care workers willing to treat AIDS patients in the developing world. Impact of a serious shortage of trained doctors, nurses and healthcare workers on the distribution of antiviral drugs in poor countries hard-hit by the epidemic; Examples of such countries as Cambodia, China, and Vietnam; Efforts by desperate patients to self-treat and under-medicate; Reasons for the shortage of health-care professionals in these regions; Lack of coordination and funding in getting doctors into developing countries from such places as the United States. INSET: Pitching In.