dollars, according to a new study. Researchers from Atlanta University found that the cost of saving one infection was a fraction of the money needed to treat a positive patient over a lifetime. But White House pressure has forced the withdrawal of many federal condom promotion campaigns.
Mounties get their men
After a five-year investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has charged the country’s Red Cross, four doctors and an American pharmaceutical company over allegations that tainted blood products led to thousands of people contracting HIV and Hepatitis C.
Swiss doc sentenced for ‘sheltering’ patient
The former head of a regional hospital in Switzerland was given a seven month suspended prison sentence last month. The court heard that the doctor found out a patient had HIV during a routine operation in 1993 but didn’t tell him as he was trying to “shelter” him. In 1998 the patient was admitted to the hospital again, but this time with Aids. The doctor, who was not named, and two colleagues have also lost their jobs.
Scandal of homeless New Yorkers with Aids
Over 30,000 New Yorkers with Aids are currently living in shelters, on the streets, or in inadequate or filthy housing, the City Council heard last month. The New York HIV/Aids Services Administration (HASA) said the numbers are rising at the rate of about 10 per cent each year. Armen Merjian, of NY Housing Works, blamed inaction by the city’s mayor: “The Bloomberg administration is long on PR but short on substance.”