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 …
Three European scientists shared the first of this year's Nobel awards, the medicine prize, for identifying the viruses responsible for Aids and cervical cancer. Yesterday's award of half the SKr10m ($1.4m,
NEW YORK: The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908. Previously, scientists had estimated the …
HIV has advanced from high-risk groups such as intravenous drug users to some in the general population, according to comprehensive new data from the south of China. What needs to be done to halt its spread?
Bloomberg / Mumbai September 26, 2008, 0:14 IST American relief programme suspends funding for three generic medicines. AIDS drugs made by Ranbaxy Laboratories won't be purchased under an American programme to supply medicines to developing countries after the US cited the company for violations in two of its plants. The …
THOSE who keep in touch with Hollywood science-fiction movies know about the film "Star Wars," and worry about the earth being attacked by aliens. By analysing different wars over the last two decades, many political analysts came to a consensus that they were for establishing control over valuable natural resources …
A total of 123 persons died from AIDS and attacked 365 persons in the year 2007 in Bangladesh and a total of 21 lakh persons died by AIDS in the world. Among them 17 lakh were adults and 3 lakh 30 thousand were children during this period. It was disclosed …
Participants in a seminar stressed the need for obeying religious regulations to check spread of HIV/AIDS. The people must abide by religious regulations and be aware of HIV/AIDS to get free from the attack by the killer disease, the speakers said. They made the observation while addressing the seminar titled
A little girl in bright red clothes stands by the side of the road. A family sits together in their lounge, posing for the camera. Images such as these form the bulk of the Defined by Four Letters exhibition at the National Arts Festival in Grahmstown South Africa. The exhibition …
Local initiative benefits several hiv positive individuals in Bangkok Pa, a 45-year-old woman from Bang Khen district in Bangkok, works with a massage parlour in Cabbages and Condoms, an upmarket restaurant in Bangkok. Pa is hiv positive. This drastically limits her livelihood options, made worse because banks don
Bold Thailand checks the spread of HIV while India still shies from acknowledging the problem among the many differences between Thailand and India, is the way that the two countries tackle hiv/aids. Indians created a ruckus when actor Richard Gere kissed actress Shilpa Shetty during an hiv/aids awareness meeting in …
Sri Lanka Health Ministry said the amount of money it spends on HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns has increased by 20 percent last year when compared to the amount spent in 2006. Health Ministry reported that it has spent 1.44 millions rupees on AIDS prevention programs last year and more island wide …
Standard Chartered Bank and UNAIDS Bangladesh have recently signed an agreement to form 'Bangladesh Business Coalition on AIDS' (BBCA) with a view to contributing to the national response to AIDS in the country. Shah Masud Imam, Regional Head, Corporate Affairs, South Asia of Standard Chartered Bank and Dan Odallo, Line …
Speakers at a seminar in the port city yesterday underscored the need for proper education among the women to create competent leadership for fighting AIDS and social problems prevailing in the South and South East Asian region. Asian University of Women (AUW) organised the seminar on 'Leadership in a time …
Phase I Proves Shots Safe; Next Level Tests On 300 Volunteers Jaya Menon | TNN Chennai: India's HIV vaccine programme got a major boost with scientists of the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here reporting significant progress in the first phase of clinical trials for a vaccine to prevent AIDS. Preliminary …
The number of HIV cases detected in Sri Lanka is 996 while mother to child contacts remain at 31. Specialist medical officer of HIV/sex related diseases prevention programme, Mrs. Sriya Kanthi Benaragama said that among the patients 410 were females and 563 males. Regular awareness programmes were conducted islandwide in …
R. PRASAD An 18-month study on more than 10,500 people with HIV/AIDS in Tamil Nadu found nutritional supplements improved their health In what may be the biggest study ever conducted in India, the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) has found conclusive evidence that providing micro and macronutrients to …
