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 …
Cancer is often considered a disease of developed nations. In developing countries such as India, the focus has been on curbing communicable diseases. This has resulted in a dramatic improvement in life expectancy in India from 32 to 63 years in the past five decades. However, with the neglect of …
Health officials in Kyrgyzstan say they have diagnosed 70 new cases of HIV among children during a widespread check following a scandal over transmission of the virus in hospitals. The Health Ministry said in a statement late Thursday that more than 110,000 children born between 2004 and 2009 in the …
GLOBAL health campaigns like grand goals. On January 30th Bill Gates joined the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), 13 drug-company executives and others in pledging to eradicate or control by 2020 ten of the world’s nastiest diseases, which afflict more than a billion people. Guinea worm, sleeping sickness, …
The Global Fund’s drive to ensure sustainability and efficiency means that it may not be able to meet its commitments to combat disease, says Laurie Garrett.
Frequent travels, past displacement and current repatriation of millions of Afghans have put the Afghan population at risk of infection with novel, possibly drug-resistant strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and treatment for such infections may prove challenging for the development of effective vaccines and antiretroviral therapies, a recent study …
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi said the Punjab government, after refusing foreign aid, had provided Rs 198 million for the AIDS Control Programme (ACP) in the last fiscal year. Talking to the media after a meeting on Sunday to create awareness about the prevention of AIDS, he said …
In the midst of round-the-clock meetings between the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday committed $750 million to fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries. The foundation is providing the money to The Global Fund to …
After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will cost the government double the amount. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had in 2010 recommended to phase out Stavudine due to …
Meet from Feb 9 to focus on yoga, naturopathy as preventive cure The State has as many as 68,000 children living with HIV/AIDS, out of a total of 1.98 lakh people affected by the syndrome (by the end of December 2011), according to Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas. Speaking …
KOHIMA: The Dimapur Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (DNP+) in Dimapur has expressed concerns over the detection of as many as 267 HIV and AIDS cases in children, as per the latest report of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Dimapur. Speaking at a programme organised by Young’s Club …
Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad launched the National AIDS Control Organisation's Red Ribbon Express Phase III here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Azad said it was satisfying that the innovative initiative of multimedia and multi-sectoral mass mobilisation project of Red Ribbon Express was commended …
NEW DELHI: Could an antibody from the blood of a HIV patient help create the elusive HIV vaccine? The hunt has begun to identify 100 volunteers belonging to a rare group of HIV infected patients who stay healthy for years without requiring life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART). These antibodies in their …
London: Scientists are carrying out what they claim is the first clinical trial of an injectable vaccine for HIV which causes AIDS. A team from Imperial College, Hull York Medical School, Medical Research Council Clinical Trial Unit and Infectious Disease Research Institute is evaluating whether the vaccine is safe for …
Voluntary donor selection and screening of donor’s blood for infective agents are the cornerstones of transfusion medicine. Strict donor selection criterion, proper counselling and deferred collection may reduce wastage of resources. During the period of 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2008, a total number of 44,173 units of blood were collected from healthy …
Reed Beall and Randall Kuhn describe their findings from an analysis of use of compulsory licenses for pharmaceutical products by World Trade Organization members since 1995. Original Source
Malaria deaths have fallen by more than 25 percent in the last decade, thanks to a coordinated attack on the disease, but that progress remains fragile, the World Health Organization announced this month. About 655,000 victims — mostly children — died of malaria in 2010, the report estimated. A decade …
A year and a half after its launch, the results of the nutrition project for HIV children at Sion’s Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital are being closely monitored for the possibility of framing a national policy for such children. The project, initiated by the Mumbai Districts AIDS Control Society (MDACS) …
The Gujarat high court directed police on Thursday to register an FIRin thecaseof 23thalassaemic children being given HIV-infected blood during transfusion in Junagadh. Parents of the infected children had approached the high court demanding directions to the cops to investigate negligence by the Junagadh Civil Hospital authorities. Advocate Girish Das …
Anaemia aff ects a quarter of the global population, including 293 million (47%) children younger than 5 years and 468 million (30%) non-pregnant women. In addition to anaemia’s adverse health consequences, the economic eff ect of anaemia on human capital results in the loss of billions of dollars annually. In …
In order to reduce the infant mortality rate due to HIV transmission from mother to child, the Maharashtra State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) has kicked off a programme —Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) — in the state. As per the EID programme, children of HIV positive mothers will be screened six …
