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 …
India's success in polio eradication has infused positive energy into the global campaign against the disease, Bill Gates, founder-chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said on Thursday. Terming India's experience with polio eradication a “big thing,” he said he had spent more time on this programme than anything …
Apart from slashing 20 per cent VAT on the price of petrol in the city to bring it down by `1.26 per litre, the Delhi government, in its `33,436-crore Budget 2012-13 announced on Monday, gave the highest allocation to social sector spending. The huge significance to social sector spending in …
KOLKATA, 17 MAY: Manas Bangla ~ a network of 13 community-based organisations engaged in the distribution of medical and social support to approximately 10,000 homosexual men, transgenders and Hijras in West Bengal ~ has not received funds from the West Bengal State AIDS Prevention and Control Society (WBSAPCS) since 31 …
A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was started by former president George W. Bush in 2003 with a five-year, $15 billion …
Drug maker Lupin Ltd is expected to soon launch its generic version of the anti-HIV drug, Combivir, in the United States. The move was likely to lend a significant upside to the Mumbai-based company’s bottom line in the forthcoming quarters, a source said. Lupin’s drug, a combination of lamividine and …
A total of 175 people have succumbed to the dreaded AIDS in Punjab during the year 2011-2012. These facts were revealed in the data supplied by the SMO Civil hospital. The disease is spreading at a fast pace in the border districts of Punjab as per the data. According to …
Every 17 seconds a person in the world is diagnosed with diabetes, it kills more people than HIV/AIDS and breast cancer combined, and an estimated 183 million people are unaware that they have diabetes. Diabetes is rife in Kuwait. The true incidence is not accurately known but what is certain …
Alarmed over the fact that there are more than 8,000 HIV positive people in the state, expecting mothers, particularly in rural pockets, will soon be offered an HIV test as part of the pre-natal care by the authorities in order to safeguard the next generation. This initiative has been taken …
Punjab is among the states least affected by the problem of HIV/AIDS, while Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are the worst-hit by the infection, the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) informed the Supreme Court today. NACO provided the information to a Bench of Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya that is …
Dhaka: About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday. Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report, Dhaka ranks 9th position with 14.3 million people, while Tokyo 1st with 36.5 million, Delhi …
About 28 percent of Bangladesh's total population (41.7 million) is living in urban areas, said a Unicef report released on Wednesday. Among the top 21 mega cities of the world, according to the report, Dhaka ranks 9th position with 14.3 million people, while Tokyo 1st with 36.5 million, Delhi 2nd …
More people in the United States now die from hepatitis C each year than from AIDS, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 3.2 million people are currently infected with hepatitis C. Using data on more than 22 million deaths and their …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has sought an additional $49.7 million to meet the needs of children and women displaced by floods in Sindh and Balochistan. In a report published on Saturday, Unicef emphasised that these resources were necessary in order to transition into early recovery. Since the launch …
A mushroom used for making medicines for treating more than 20 different human ailments ranging from HIV and bronchial asthma to diabetes and angina can now be grown easily at home. Scientists of the Forest Research Institute have developed a simple technique for cultivating the Ganoderma lucidum mushroom on poplar …
The Asia-Pacific region has made great strides in reducing poverty and is moving fast towards other development goals, but levels of hunger, and child and maternal mortality are still high, according to a United Nations and Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released here today. The Asia-Pacific region has already reached …
Following reports of a Tamil Nadu-based school discriminating against a 12-year-old student after he was found HIV-positive, an NGO Wednesday announced to launch a nationwide initiative to raise public awareness about such incidents. AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the global AIDS organisation, teamed up with its partners at AHF-India Cares to …
KOHIMA: With 67 more HIV cases registered in Dimapur in January, the total registered number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in Nagaland stands at close to 12,500 with Dimapur alone accounting for more than 4,000 cases. In an effort to sensitise the local leaders and public on the menace of …
A recent study has shown that Banke, the major economic centre of mid-western region, is at a high risk of HIV-AIDS with a sharp rise in number of people infected with the virus. According to district AIDS coordination committee Banke, a total of more than three thousand five hundred people …
A Central team from the National AIDS Control Organisation, New Delhi, which is in the State to evaluate the care, support and treatment programmes implemented by Tamil Nadu, has said that there are lessons here for the rest of the country to follow. For instance, there is high praise for …
