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 …
The Gauhati High Court on Saturday asked the Assam government to strictly follow the directions passed earlier on prevention and control of AIDS. It was hearing a suo motu PIL it had registered following media reports on five persons contracting HIV after being given contaminated blood at a hospital. A …
KANPUR: City based paediatrics advised parents to take extra care of their kids in winters to keep pneumonia at bay, on World Pneumonia day observed on November 12, every year. The experts also laid emphasis on strengthening immunity and resistance power to fight the killer disease. Commenting on pneumonia deaths …
A new study has found a 10 per cent increase in the number of HIV-infected cases in Australia, which is said to be the fastest in the last two decades. A latest annual report was released by Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales on Sexually Transmissible Infections …
AIDS Initiative was launched in 2003 in six States The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Avahan programme may have prevented over 6 lakh HIV infections in India over 10 years, according to a report in Lancet Global Health . It may be recalled that a 2011 study, by other institutes, …
A total of 7,854 patients of AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) have been registered in various hospitals of the country by April. A document of Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination placed in Parliament said the total registered AIDS patients in Islamabad are 1,516 …
Urgent calls have been made for improved understanding of changes in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health interventions, and their country-level determinants. The researchers examined historical trends in coverage of interventions with proven effectiveness, and used them to project rates of child and neonatal mortality in 2035 in 74 …
With the new Companies Act, 2013, making it mandatory for all the companies with a turnover of Rs 1,000 crore or net profit of Rs 5 crore or more to earmark 2 per cent of their net profit for the preceding three years on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the state …
A total of 1,497 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in August, with AIDS the top cause of death, according to figures released by health authorities on Monday. AIDS infections resulted in 1,102 deaths last month, according to a statement posted on the website of the National …
Policy To Focus On Strict Implementation Of PCPNDT, Edu The girl child is the focus of the new child policy that the Child Rights Protection Commission is drafting and which will be implemented by September-end. The draft includes measures to improve the female sex ratio, eliminate female foeticide and adopt …
South Africa is increasingly focused on reducing maternal mortality. Documenting variation in access to maternal health services across one of the most inequitable nations could assist in re-direction of resources.
With the data provided by the Centre for Pollution Control (CPC), it has been found that majority of the city hospitals have been flouting the norms for biomedical waste treatment. CPC is a private organization, authorized by the VMC to collect and treat the biomedical waste from the city hospitals. …
Jaipur: Looking to an increase in the prevalence of HIV in state, the government is planning to conduct HIV screening tests on a large scale but with the consent of test takers. The facility will now be made available in the remotest primary health centres (PHCs) of state. Earlier, the …
Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in …
Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its first case. Of the new 24 cases, 13 are males and the rest females. According to …
Medical experts yesterday said that HIV positive cases continued to show an alarming increase in Sri Lanka. Director of the Health Ministry’s National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) Dr. Sisira Liyanage told The Island that homosexuality was partly responsible for the prevalent rate of HIV and AIDS in the country. Dr. …
: In the first six months of this year 16 people have died of HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka, the Director of the HIV Prevention Programme Dr. Sisira Liyanage has said. According to Dr. Liyanage 90 people have been identified as HIV patients this year and 7 of them are children. …
Little is known about the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in HIV-co-infected adolescents. This study aimed to present the intermediate outcomes of HIV-infected adolescents aged 10–19 years receiving second-line anti-TB treatment in a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in Mumbai, India. Original Source
A new survey report has revealed that in every 100 HIV infected people around 12 people (11.5 per cent) have Tuberculosis (TB). According to the report, in every 100 TB patient two people (2.4 per cent) have HIV. Last week, National Tuberculosis Centre revealed the report after a yearlong survey …
Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025. But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will …
In yet another twist to the Ranbaxy scandal, the drug regulatory authority of the UK government has issued a statement clarifying that they have found no evidence that any of Ranbaxy’s products in the UK market “are or have been of unacceptable quality”. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had issued …
