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 United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in 2001 was a critical event that dramatically enhanced the global AIDS response. Ten years later, the September 2011 UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control provides a similar opportunity for the international community and national stakeholders to …
Kohima: Nagaland Health and Family Welfare Minister Kuzholuzo Nienu has informed that due to unabated efforts by the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS), Nagaland Legislators Forum of AIDS (LFA) and various NGOs, the present prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS has came down in the state. Speaking as the chief guest …
In an effort to check the spread of tuberculosis and its multi-drug resistant variants, the World Health Organisation and the Inter-national Pharmaceutical Federation (FIB) signed a joint statement on the role of pharmacists in TB care and control. The joint statement proposes a series of measures to help detect TB, …
Drug major Ranbaxy On Wednesday said it will spend nearly ¥200 million (over Rs 10 crore) along with parent company Daiichi Sankyo over the next five years to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania. The services will be provided in the fields of basic healthcare, immunisation, …
Gruesome details of American-run venereal disease experiments on Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers and mental patients in the years after World War II were revealed this week during hearings before a White House bioethics panel investigating the study’s sordid history. A Times article on April 27, 1947, prompted Dr. John C. Cutler …
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic and on the occasion of the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (10th ICAAP), being held at Busan, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released a new report on the HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region. The report …
ITANAGAR, Aug 28 – Breaking the prevailing stigma against HIV and AIDS, the State joined the anti-HIV campaign with the formation of a 14-member Arunachal Network of Positive People (ArNP). ArNP General Secretary Yumrin Nokpa disclosed how he had to face societal bar after being detected with HIV+ while introducing …
In what might be the greatest medical discovery since penicillin, scientists have developed a broad-spectrum drug which they claim can cure everything — from the common cold to HIV to almost any other virus one can think of. A team of researchers at the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in …
The first payments were made Thursday to Nigerian families who lost children during a 1996 trial of an experimental meningitis drug, and Pfizer, which had tested the drug, a new antibiotic, said it was “pleased” that payments were finally being made under a settlement reached two years ago. Four families …
A total of 3,74,847 persons have been screened for HIV in Nagaland during the period 1999-2011, out of which 10,927 tested positive. According to HIV/AIDS statistics of Nagaland revealed during the Adolscent Education Programme (AEP) End Line Training in Kohima, reported AIDS cases are 3,764 including 2,051 males and 1,713 …
London: Scientists have developed a portable blood test device which they say diagnoses an infection within minutes and could be an effective weapon in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the developing world. Developed by scientists at the University of Columbia in New York, the mChip, which costs $1 …
Despite years of great progress in treating AIDS, the number of new infections with the virus that causes it has remained stubbornly around 50,000 a year in the United States for a decade, according to new figures released on Wednesday by federal officials. The American epidemic is still concentrated primarily …
Kolkata: It is wobbly with a crooked needle and a depressed piston. The tip looks blunt, the cap is loose and the tube has a pale exterior. ‘For single use only’, says the instruction printed on the syringe but it looks far from a fresh one, safe enough for use. …
The Sindh High Court was informed on Monday that the provincial government had allocated Rs80 million for the Sindh Aids Control Programme. This was stated by the provincial additional finance secretary before Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi of the SHC, who was hearing an application filed by Syed Iqbal Kazmi of …
Seventeen people died of AIDS in Bardiya district in the last three years. Five members of a family at Bhimmapur VDC-2 died of the syndrome last year. Chairman of Geruwa Rural Awareness Association (GRAA), a non-profit making organisation, Luxman Tharu said those to have died last year are Chakra Bahadur …
Mortality from TB since 1990 was estimated for 213 countries using established methods endorsed by WHO. Mortality trends were estimated separately for people with and without human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in accordance with the International classification of diseases. Lives saved by the DOTS/Stop TB Strategy were estimated with respect …
Actor Vikram hopes tagline “B Podu” catches on This is one campaign that intends to go viral, especially among schoolchildren and college-going youth. “Liver 4 Life”, an initiative launched by MIOT Hospitals, aims to raise public understanding about the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and promote vaccination against infection by organising …
Panjim – Nearly 20 people living with HIV/AIDS infection are amongst the 1.14 lakh beneficiaries, who receive monthly income under Dayanand Social Security Scheme (DSS). Goa government, which had introduced this scheme during Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s tenure, had modified the scheme at a later stage by including HIV affected …
The 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) is the fourth nationally representative comprehensive survey conducted as part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project in the country. The principal objective of the 2011 NDHS is to provide current and reliable data on fertility and family planning, child …
Likewise other countries in world, the 64th "World Hepatitis Day" is being observed on Thursday, July 28, in Pakistan. One in every 12 people worldwide is now grappling with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, and it is now more widespread than even HIV or cancer. Non-availability of proper facilities …
