UN chief gets drug companies to lower prices of AIDS drugs. Health experts believe polio can be eradicated early as 2005. UN agency launches an AIDS awareness program in Bulgaria. UN agencies launch plan to halve measles deaths by 2005. Many questions to answer on issue of human cloning.
Groups look to protect mercury standards.
Water-related illness kills millions each year. UN agency launches campaign to aid tuberculosis victims. Canadian agency aids push to eradicate polio in world. Health problems of people on US bombing site studied. Study begins of vaccine for HIV strain found in Africa.