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/ 10 December 2003
Significantly lower Aids drugs prices are expected to result from agreements reached with two pharmaceutical companies. GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to allow a second company to manufacture generic versions of three of its anti-retroviral drugs, and a similar settlement has been reached with Boehringer Ingelheim.
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/ 10 December 2003
Call me a killjoy, but I have to complain. My last column predicted that Aids would henceforth get less play given that the politics of anti-retroviral provision are over.
Little did I know then that front-page coverage of the Durex global sex survey would push the latest figures of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) to the inside pages.
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/ 10 December 2003
The world’s first information summit opened in Geneva on Wednesday, hoping to help bridge the technology gap between rich and poor countries and devise a new framework to govern the unruly internet. Delegates from 175 countries are attending — including Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=38626">WSIS special report</a>
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/ 10 December 2003
Street battles left at least nine Liberians dead on Wednesday as United Nations forces tried to quell rampages by ex-government militias in Liberia’s capital. UN military commanders said at least one UN peacekeeper was wounded, but neither civilian nor military UN officials would confirm that UN troops had fired back at any point.
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/ 10 December 2003
A powerful earthquake measuring 6,6 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, followed by one with a magnitute of 5,1, seismologists said. An agency official said there were some landslides in southern Taiwan and telecommunications systems in some areas were interrupted.
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/ 10 December 2003
Nine percent of companies included in a new survey showed that HIV/Aids has already had a significant adverse impact on their business, the South African Business Coalition on HIV/Aids announced on Wednesday. Forty-three percent envisaged a significant negative impact over the next five years.
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/ 10 December 2003
The Jockey Club of Southern Africa confirmed on Wednesday that the highly contagious equine influenza has broken out in the Western Cape. Cub chief executive Tony Barnes said the last time there was an outbreak of equine influenza, in 1986, horse racing was affected for up to three months.
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/ 10 December 2003
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has awarded an Arivia.kom consortium, including Cornastone, a three-year information technology outsource contract to support its applications and maintain its infrastructure. The department is undergoing a number of structural and functional changes.
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/ 10 December 2003
With consumer confidence rising and inflation and interest rates falling in the wider economy, South African retailers are anticipating strong sales for the key December period, making up for a first-half of 2003 characterised by sluggish performances.
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/ 10 December 2003
Six children were killed on Friday during an assault by United States forces on a compound in eastern Afghanistan, an American military spokesperson said on Wednesday. It is the second time in a week that civilians have died in action against Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects.