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 …
SILCHAR: India’s National AIDS Control Programme has achieved a 50 per cent reduction in new infections over the last 10 years. Still, there are an estimated 2.1 million people living with HIV in India. 90 per cent of infections in India are sexually transmitted. PEPFAR (The US President’s Emergency Plan …
In a breakthrough, a two-year-old baby girl in the US born with HIV has been "functionally cured" for the first time, scientists have said. US researchers said they believe early intervention - in this case within 30 hours of birth - with three anti-viral drugs was key to the outcome. …
More than 6 million people across Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe are at risk of severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of drought and flooding, the global humanitarian body IFRC said on Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the crisis was passing largely …
Against the national average of 10% among injectable drug users, the count stands much high at 40% in Amritsar and 27% in Tarn Taran The rampant drug addiction among youths in Punjab is putting them at the risk of bigger danger — HIV infection. The HIV prevalence among injectable drug …
HIV positive persons can avail of a monthly assistance of Rs.1,000 under the farmers protection scheme, said N.R.Sivapathi, Minister for School Education, Law, Youth Welfare and Sports, here on Saturday. At a function to mark the World AIDS Day observation, Mr.Sivapathi said HIV positive persons holding identity cards issued under …
More than 6,000 persons in the district are in the grip of AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). As many as 3,600 cases of AIDS and 3,200 of tuberculosis (TB) have been identified in the district so far this year. Dr Baldev Singh, Medical Officer, Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre, Civil Hospital, said: …
Increasing the heat on Chinese drug firms exporting medicines to India, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is all set to open its first foreign drug inspection office in Beijing by March 1. Around four Indian drug inspectors will be posted in China to inspect manufacturing sites and check …
Guwahati: Moved by the plight of children of AIDS victims, Governor of Assam, Janaki Ballav Patnaik, on Tuesday announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh to help Assam Network of Positive (ANP+) people, an NGO working for these children, according to a Raj Bhavan source. The Governor along with first …
India is witnessing a significant reduction in fresh cases of deadly HIV, which have come down by as much as 57%, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday. “There have been significant falls in MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella), IMR (Infant Mortality rates) and TFR as well as …
The programme was started at six centres in Tamil Nadu The Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre) has started a pilot testing programme of providing for six months isoniazid TB drug as prophylactic to HIV-positive individuals. People recruited will include those on antiretroviral therapy (ART) …
Estimation of the number and rate of deaths by age and sex is a key first stage for calculation of the burden of disease in order to constrain estimates of cause-specific mortality and to measure premature mortality in populations. We aimed to estimate life tables and annual numbers of deaths …
Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke — the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years — human mortality caused by climate change has shown the most dangerous spurt over the last four decades. The Global …
Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the world. Of the 52.8 million people who died worldwide in 2010, ischaemic heart disease and stroke accounted …
Months after the Union Health Ministry turned down demands of a section of the medical community to devise ways to fight Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, an article in the latest issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) has underscored the need for such a move, at least for …
The number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the state is down by 5 per cent, according to a survey by the National AIDS Control organization (NACO). Official figures show that the incidence of infection among injection drug users(IDUs) has decreased from 26.1 per cent in 2008 to 21.02 …
HIV positive cases in the district have gone up by about 33 per cent in the last one year. Currently, there are 656 HIV positive persons in Balangir as against 492 last year. Most of them are male and fall in the age group of 24 to 49 years. Sources …
MARGAO: Health Minister, Laxmikant Parsekar has said the government has accepted the challenge to achieve by 2015 zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination of HIV patients and zero AIDS-related deaths in the fight against the dreaded AIDS. Addressing a function at the Ravindra Bhavan, Margao, organized by Goa State AIDS …
MARGAO: The coastal talukas of Mormugao (18.1%) and Salcete (13.7%) in South and Bardez (14.6%) and Tiswadi (9.4%) in North reported majority of the cases of HIV infection in the year 2011. The trend has continued this year too, with Mormugao reporting 77 cases, Salcete (52), Bardez (81) and Tiswadi …
JAIPUR: On World Aids Day, Rajasthan got a jolt when it was ranked sixth among states with high HIV prevalence. One out of every 200 pregnant women in the state tested positive for HIV in 2010-11. Further, Rajasthan figures in the category of highly vulnerable and high-priority state due to …
