The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
New HIV infections in Russia are fuelling the global AIDS epidemic as the country struggles to come up with effective prevention strategies, Unaids has said. Though the fight against HIV has largely been successful as in recent years, with the number of annual new cases worldwide falling significantly, the UN …
Aurangabad: Rain relief on one hand, sting scare on the other. People of Aurangabad are fearing an outbreak of vector-borne diseases following the onset of monsoon with the health administration registering 10 dengue positive cases since June. The maximum number of dengue cases (7) was reported in areas under the …
Efforts to end the global AIDS pandemic by 2030 are lagging, the UN warned Tuesday, decrying rising numbers of new HIV infections among adults in many regions, with Russia especially hard-hit. In a new report, UNAIDS cautioned that while new HIV infections had fallen dramatically in the past two decades, …
The United States on Monday pledged $410 million toward ending the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, the country hardest hit. South Africa has the world's largest population of people living with HIV, at 6.8 million, and the funds will help expand its antiretroviral program, which provides treatment to more than …
PARIS – Calling the AIDS epidemic “the most important global health challenge in modern history,” more than 50 top scientists pressed their case Monday for a drive to stop the killer disease in its tracks. Anchored by Nobel medicine laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the group unveiled an aggressive research strategy for …
Austrian researchers have developed a treatment that could spell a breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS, the Krone newspaper reported on Monday. The research duo of Thomas Szekeres, a human geneticist who also serves as President of the Vienna Medical Association, and Walter Jaeger, a pharmacist, said the arduous research …
Australia's top scientists and health experts have declared that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is no longer a public health issue, with Australia joining the small number of countries worldwide to have successfully overcome the epidemic. The number of AIDS cases diagnosed now is so low that researchers from the …
South Africa has more people living with HIV, an estimated 6.6 million, than any country in the world. About half are now receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, which has greatly stressed the country's health care system. Now, South Africa plans to encourage all infected people to learn their status and start …
SEOUL, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The sixth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a 28-year-old woman who recently came back from Dominica, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said on Friday. The woman, who had stayed in the Central American country …
Arusha — The East African region has 10 per cent of all new HIV infections globally, according to the 2014 UNAIDS report. And sub-Saharan Africa remains the worst-affected by the epidemic despite achievements registered by the continent under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This was revealed here last week by …
A new small study showed that a certain human antibody, which already has the potential to protect people against Human Immunodeficiency Virus, can help suppress viral rebound in HIV-positive patients who have stopped taking antiretroviral drugs. The study, published in the journal Nature, revealed that injecting a neutralizing antibody called …
Diseases, while disastrous, often come and go in the public eye. We hear about ebola, but then another one quickly grabs national monitors and TV screens for its fifteen minutes. However, one condition that seems to not fit into his norm is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The spread of …
Deaths caused by AIDS declined nearly 55% in India in the past eight years, whereas new HIV infections came down by 66% since 2000. In 2007, India had recorded 1,48,309 such deaths; in 2015, the figure stood at just 67,600, according to latest statistics presented by health minister J P …
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The number of microcephaly cases in newborns in Brazil, which are linked to the Zika virus, rose from 1,489 to 1,551 or a 4.1 percent increase in the past seven days, according to weekly report released today by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Health authorities …
Thailand has become the first country in Asia to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. The milestone is another step in Thailand's aggressive campaign to reduce new cases of the AIDS virus, but experts warn many other problems still exist—including a rising rate …
America, South American Countries, South Pacific Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Mexico and some parts of Asia According to Centers for Disease and Control, the number of pregnant women with any laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection is 195 in U.S. states and the District of Columbia as of May …
A new study finds that implementing the United Nations targets for HIV testing and treatment would be an expensive but ultimately very cost-effective way to increase survival, reduce the number of children orphaned by HIV, and contain the global AIDS epidemic. That is the conclusion of researchers at the Massachusetts …
The spread of yellow fever (YF) is a global health threat. In response to current outbreaks in Angola, other African countries, and China, which represents the first ever documented cases of YF in Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an emergency committee on May 19, 2016 to underscore the …
An Ebola clinical vaccine trial will be launched this July by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the Standard Digital of Kenya reports. According to Senior Deputy Director of the KEMRI Walter Reed project, Dr Fredric Sawe, the effort by KEMRI is meant to restore the West African region which …
GENEVA - The Zika virus strain linked to surging cases of neurological disorders and birth defects in Latin America has now been found in Africa, health officials said Friday, as the first fatality on French territory was reported on the Caribbean island of Martinique. The World Health Organization announced that …
