1.   Health Minister Andrea Fischer charged that the demonstrators were confusing patients by saying the proposed changes would lead to cutbacks in medicine supplies.

2.   Adding to the growing concern, many Arab governments are not willing to treat AIDS as a threatening epidemic, so testing for HIV and medicine supplies are inadequate.

3.   Canadians fret about the United States raiding their medicine supplies.

4.   Hospital officials in coastal Riohacha, the capital of Guajira state, say the crush of patients may exhaust their medicine supplies by the end of this week.

5.   The Serbs have also stopped nearly all medicine supplies from reaching the eastern enclaves.