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The government of New Zealand halts its financial support to the Cook Islands over a partnership agreement signed with China earlier this year.
2025-06-18

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Gilead Sciences's new lenacapavir drug, marketed as Yeztugo, for the treatment of HIV after successful clinical trials show the drug nearly eliminated the infection spread.
2025-06-18

New Zealand creates its first "travel bubble" with the Cook Islands, citing low COVID-19 infection rates and their "special ties". The travel bubble will allow citizens to travel between both countries without having to quarantine in early 2021.
2020-12-11

The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Mark Brown, calls the threat of five nations (Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia) withdrawing from the Pacific Islands Forum in case their nominee is not elected as Secretary-General as "premature" and "extreme".
2020-11-1

The United States National Institutes of Health stops its trial of an experimental HIV vaccine (HVTN 702) amidst poor results. The trial involved more than 5,000 people in South Africa.
2020-02-3

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York City have found that a modified version of the leukemia treatment radioimmunotherapy can kill latent HIV cells, possibly providing a cure for one of the world's deadliest diseases.
2013-12-3

A United Nations report states that there are 2 million adolescents in the world living with HIV with 86 per cent of them living in sub-Saharan Africa.
2011-06-1

German prosecutors investigate several companies for possible illegal sales of HIV drugs including those intended for use in Africa. [http:--www.ktuu.com-sns-bc-eu--germany-hivdrugfraud,0,5822480.story (AP via KTUU)]date=August 2019
2011-02-24

German HIV-positive pop singer Nadja Benaissa is found guilty of grievous bodily harm after transmitting HIV to a man who had unprotected sex with her without her telling him of her condition.
2010-08-26

Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai sets the date for the upcoming 2010 general election for November 17th.
2010-08-13