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 …
AIDS researchers released a call to action Sunday for a worldwide shift in HIV treatment, to providing medication immediately after diagnosis instead of first watching for signs of illness to appear. "Immediate antiretroviral (ARV) treatment more than doubles an individual's prospects of staying healthy and surviving," said the Vancouver Consensus, …
A report by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announces today in Addis Abeba that sixth Millennium Development Goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV has been achieved and exceeded nine months ahead of schedule. The report, "How AIDS Changed Everything," officially released today at Zewuditu …
Africa: Addis - UN Agency Stresses Role of Partnerships to Finance Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development The world has exceeded the targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, according to a report …
The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to …
The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing in sub-Saharan Africa combined with an already high prevalence of infectious disease, like HIV. Engaging the formal employment sector may present a viable strategy for addressing both HIV and NCDs in people of working age. This study assesses the presence of three …
The slow global response to the Ebola crisis in west Africa suggests that important gaps exist in donor financing for key global functions, such as support for health research and development for diseases of poverty and strengthening of outbreak preparedness. In this Health Policy, we use the International Development Statistics …
About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most successful anti-poverty push in history, the U.N. said on Monday. The number of people living in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day has more …
Scientists may have managed to unravel the elusive structure of the HIV protein. This could lead to new findings in terms of threatening this immunodeficiency virus, which could help patients across the world. HIV is a retrovirus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Globally, about 35 million people …
Increasing secondary school attendance in Botswana slashed HIV infection rates of adults, with the greatest drop among women, a study finds. Typically, an extra year of schooling beyond primary level reduced the chance of people catching the virus by a third, according to the study in The Lancet last week …
The United Nations commended the world’s progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in a Monday report, saying that dire poverty across the world had dropped sharply. The findings were part of the global body’s final report marking the end of the goals, which specified targets for development in health, …
The success of an experimental vaccine trial with rhesus monkeys is motivating a pharmaceutical company to undertake experimental HIV vaccine tests in Thailand, East and South Africa, and the United States of America US, with 400 healthy participants taking part in the first phase of the trials. Scientists say the …
Cuba has been declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the first country worldwide to successfully stop the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their babies. WHO has called it one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of public health achievements which followed years of efforts to …
Becomes First Country To Eliminate Spread Of Virus From Mom To Child, Says WHO Cuba has become the first country in the world to eliminate HIV and syphilis transmission from mother to baby , the WHO said, hailing the success as “one of the greatest public health achievements possible.“ “This …
Abuja — Unless countries worst affected by Humman Immuno Virus (HIV) demonstrate determination and focus on stopping new HIV infection and increasing access to anti-retroviral drugs, the epidemic would definitely rebound. This is contained in a new report released by United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Lancet Commission, a …
Uganda and the Global Fund today signaled a new phase of partnership by signing five new grants for US$226 million to fight HIV and tuberculosis as well as to build resilient and sustainable systems for health in the country. Funding for grants supported by the Global Fund partnership come from …
An estimated 2·1 million individuals are newly infected with HIV every year. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have reported conflicting evidence for the association between education and HIV risk, and no randomised trial has identified a causal effect for education on HIV incidence. The researchers aimed to use a policy reform …
Many observers were surprised when Indiana Governor Mike Pence issued an executive order on March 26, 2015, declaring a public health emergency after a rapidly escalating outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in Scott County, a rural region on the Kentucky border. Others, however, had seen it coming. …
After more than a decade of major achievements, the AIDS response is at a crucial juncture, both in terms of its immediate trajectory and its sustainability, as well as its place in the new global health and development agendas. In May, 2013, the UNAIDS–Lancet Commission—a diverse group of experts in …
Zimbabweans may soon be immunised against HIV transmission if trials for a vaccine to prevent the spread of the deadly virus expected to start in the near future are successful. The trial will also be carried out in Zambia and Malawi, as Southern Africa steps up efforts to fight HIV. …
This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of …
