More pediatric HIV drugs need to be manufactured for the tens of thousands of children in China suffering from the disease, an AIDS activist says, adding that the most vulnerable were not getting enough drugs from the state.

Antiretroviral drugs, which help prevent HIV replication and lengthen the lives of people who have the virus, are not widely produced in for children. Rich countries have been successful in preventing mother-to-child transmission for HIV, so pediatric antiretroviral drugs are not considered commercially viable

State-media in Zimbabwe claims the African nation is running short of HIV/AIDS medication.

According to the state-run Herald, Zimbabwe has less than one month's supply of of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tentatively approves three antiretroviral drugs that are used together to treat HIV/AIDS.

The regimen consists of lamivudine/zidovudine fixed dose combination tablets and efavirenz tablets. They are used to combat HIV-1 infection in adults

More than 500 HIV positive inmates at the Westville prison in Durban, South Africa have begun a mass hunger strike to demand free HIV treatment.

According to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), more than 20 inmates have died in the prison because of HIV/Aids related infections in the past three months. They blame it on the authorities that are not providing necessary measures to provide access to treatment to HIV/Aids positive inmates. Currently they are about 180 inmates who desperately need anti-retroviral or ARV's

Health officials say Wednesday that an estimated 1.5 million children in the Asia-Pacific region have been orphaned from the disease.

Some 250 delegates are attending a three-day meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam to discuss ways of stemming the disease among youth, as well as helping children who are infected and orphaned by AIDS