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 …
Dominica has recorded an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases and health authorities are warning that most of the cases are among the male population. Coordinator of the National Response Programme for HIV/AIDS Julie Frampton said that since the first HIV/AIDS case was reported there in 1987, there were …
HEALTH Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson says that the Government is in the process of preparing a proposal for US$19 million in grant aid towards financing the country's HIV response programme to the middle of 2018. "We are in the process of preparing our proposal for the grant to take effect …
Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of …
However, comprehensive care and support, treatment and preventative services are improving across PNG, resulting in people living with HIV leading longer and healthier lives. Owing to weakened immune systems, people living with HIV are at risk of many life threatening opportunistic infections, many of which are caused by exposure to …
There had been a 12 per cent increase in HIV/AIDS cases in the country so far this year with 90 new victims detected compared to last year’s 81 cases, Director HIV/AIDS Dr. Sisira Liyanage revealed yesterday. Dr. Liyanage said that during the first six months of this year alone 16 …
Uganda recently passed a highly controversial HIV Prevention and Control Act that experts say will set back efforts to control HIV/AIDS in the country.
Joshua Mendelsohn and colleagues discuss the moral, legal, and public health principles and recent evidence that strongly suggest that refugees and internally displaced people should have equal access to HIV treatment and support as host nationals and give detailed recommendations for refugees and internally displaced people accessing antiretroviral therapy in …
The number of people in Japan newly diagnosed with HIV and AIDS rose slightly in 2013, according to government figures. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s National AIDS Surveillance Committee said this month that 1,106 people in Japan contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 2013. It said …
HIV-Aids has taken its toll on Dalit settlement at Jogbudha VDC in the district. Aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. Chandra …
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says that in 2013, 484 individuals in Japan were newly diagnosed with AIDS. This is the largest number ever for a one-year period since the ministry began tracking AIDS in 1985. Similarly, the overall number of people newly confirmed as HIV positive, was …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya state Network for Positive People (MSNP+) has revealed that there are a total number of 68 children in the State who are living with the HIV virus. In a presentation made during the 31st International Aids Candle Light Memorial at Don Bosco Youth Centre on Sunday, MSNP+ …
The World Food Programme will help to feed nearly 6.5 million Ethiopians this year, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday, with the country hit by locusts, neighboring war and sparse rainfall. "We are concerned because there is the beginning of a locust invasion in the eastern part of the country, …
Shortages of nurses, doctors, and health professionals in resource-poor countries challenge the success of many health initiatives and health-system strengthening. In many of these countries, medical and nursing schools are few and severely short of faculty, limiting their capacity to scale-up and increase the number of skilled graduates and professionals …
Mortality rate is declining but not enough to meet Millennium Development Goal. India accounts for the maximum number of maternal deaths in the world — 17 per cent or nearly 50,000 of the 2.89 lakh women who died as a result of complications due to pregnancy or childbearing in 2013. …
Data for the causes of maternal deaths are needed to inform policies to improve maternal health. We developed and analysed global, regional, and subregional estimates of the causes of maternal death during 2003—09, with a novel method, updating the previous WHO systematic review.
There are 226 HIV/AIDS infected people so far in Baglung district. According to statistics of the District HIV/AIDS Coordination Committee, of them 99 are men and 97 are women. Similarly, 30 children below 16 years including 10 girls are HIV/AIDS infected, said Committee coordinator Pradeep GC. Of them, 108 people …
A new report by the WHO – its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally – reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, …
Kohima: As per the 2014 Sentinel Surveillance Report, Nagaland has recorded the highest prevalence of HIV & AIDS in the country with an alarming ratio of 0.88 per cent against country’s figure stands at 0.37 per cent. According to the Medical Officer in-charge of Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre, Dimapur, …
After being bed-ridden for a month, Dilip Thapa, an HIV patient, died last week in Banepa. He was 43. Thapa had contracted HIV virus through a syringe 17 years ago. He had been on anti-retro viral treatment (ARV) since three years. Thapa was also among three persons, including Rajiv Kafle …
