Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
Odisha is witnessing a spike in malaria incidence, thanks to non-distribution of long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in endemic zones of the State. LLINs, which have been an effective frontline protection measure against mosquito bites, have not been supplied in malaria-prone districts since around 2012-13 and have outlived their utility, …
The Ogun State Government has said that 100,000 residents of the state were living with HIV. The Commissioner for Health in the State, Babatunde Ipaye, stated this to PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday at the Governor's Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Mr. Ipaye said the government would not renege on its responsibility of …
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified a new life cycle stage in HIV infection, thanks to a novel technique they developed to take images of intact infected cells. They've shown that this phase of infection, dubbed intra-nuclear migration, by principal investigator Abraham L. Brass, MD, PhD, …
LUCKNOW: More than 80% of the people living with HIV in the state are yet to get treatment. Of the estimated 1.25 lakh people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Uttar Pradesh, only 25,278 are getting free anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment, according to data from the UP State AIDS Control Society. …
Mashonaland Central and Matabeleland North provinces have overwhelmingly embraced the "door-to-door" voluntary HIV testing and counselling services initiated by Government in October with over 4 500 people having been tested in the past two months, a senior Government official has revealed. In an interview recently strategic information coordinator in the …
The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years, a UN spokesman said here. The report, entitled Health in 2015: from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals …
BHOPAL: As a decade's record from 2005-2015 showed that Madhya Pradesh recorded 43, 959 HIV positive cases, Indore, Jabalpur and Bhopal were on the top of the charts, with a maximum number of HIV positive patients. Indore, reported 9695 cases in the last one decade, which contributed to 2.40% of …
Nearly 45 persons have died of AIDS at Terkiana and Badhaiya villages of Dasuya in Hoshiarpur in the past 15 years. Besises, many villagers are reportedly infected with the virus. Though some admit, the rest try to hide it despite being severely ill. In Terkiana, two women whose husbands succumbed …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan does not have good health indicators like maternal mortality ratios and infant mortality rates, but in terms of prevalence of HIV, it is far better than more than 11 states of the country, shows the HIV sentinel surveillance (HSS) 2012-13 (a technical brief) prepared by department of Aids …
GURGAON: There has been an overall 10% increase in cases of AIDS in the district this year, while the number of women infected with AIDS has gone up by 25% compared to last year, according to the district Integrated Counselling & Testing Centres (ICTC) for AIDS. In the last 10 …
Some 15.8 million people are now on HIV treatment and a five-year strategy to end the threat of a never-ending AIDS pandemic is starting to show results, the United Nations AIDS programme said on Tuesday. Estimates show new HIV infections have fallen by 35 percent since the peak of the …
Ahead of World AIDS Day 2015, UNAIDS has released a new report showing that countries are getting on the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. By adapting to a changing global environment and maximizing innovations, countries are seeing greater efficiencies and better results. …
Zimbabwe will conduct its first ever HIV vaccine trial as part of efforts to curb the spread of HIV in February next year, officials have said. The HIV trial comes at a time when the global community is doubling efforts to curb the epidemic which had claimed the lives of …
Deciding to test for HIV is necessary for receiving HIV treatment and care among those who are HIV-positive. This article presents a systematic review of quantitative studies on relationships between psychological (cognitive and affective) variables and HIV testing. Sixty two studies were included (fifty six cross sectional). Most measured lifetime …
European guidelines recommend the routine offer of an HIV test in patients with a number of AIDS-defining and non-AIDS conditions believed to share an association with HIV; so called indicator conditions (IC). Adherence with this guidance across Europe is not known. We audited HIV testing behaviour in patients accessing care …
The fourth leg of the FIFA '11 for health' program has been launched in Accra on Tuesday. FIFA approved Ghana as the first country in the world for the 4th edition of the program that trains kids in school to avoid health problems through various football drills. The program has …
India recorded the largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world last year, according to a report by the WHO that said 1.5 million people died in 2014 from the disease which ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide. World Health Organisation’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2015, released yesterday, said …
Tuberculosis has joined HIV/AIDS as the top infectious disease killer on the planet, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday. TB killed 1.5 million people in 2014, including 400,000 HIV/AIDS patients who died of TB-related complications. HIV/AIDS killed 1.2 million people last year. TB and HIV/AIDS are "partners in crime" and …
Tuberculosis has replaced HIV/AIDS as the world’s most deadly infectious disease, the World Health Organisation has revealed. According to the World Tuberculosis report 2015, TB killed 1.5 million people in 2014 with India, Indonesia and China having largest number of cases: 23 per cent, 10 per cent and 10 per …
Since the beginning of this year, Vietnam has seen some 47,000 dengue fever patients, including 30 fatalities, compared with the respective figures of 23,400 and 17 in the same period last year, the country's General Statistics Office has said. In October alone, Vietnam reported over 14,100 cases of dengue fever …