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 …
As the world prepares to mark 30 years of AIDS (the infection was first reported on June 5, 1981), it has a lot to cheer about the progress made towards reversal of the epidemic.Much of this progress happened over the last decade, with the global rate of new HIV infections …
Vertex Pharmaceuticals won regulatory approval on Monday for a new hepatitis C drug, setting off a marketing battle with Merck over new drugs that are expected to improve the cure rate of the disease and shorten the duration of treatment. Incivek, as the drug will be called, is expected to …
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has frozen payments on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of disease-fighting grants to China, one of the charity
China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese government scientists are reporting. About 63 percent of all those needing AIDS drugs are getting them, up from virtually zero in 2002. That has caused a 64 percent drop in mortality in
The state government, while making its presentation to the team from World Bank (WB) in Mantralaya on Monday, sought financial assistance for its infrastructure and water supply improvement projects. The government has demanded assistance of $40 billion for the study of the metro and monorail corridors, $185 million for water …
New Delhi: The hunt for an effective vaccine against the lethal HIV remains elusive. In a phase-II double-blind, randomized test-of-concept study, another promising vaccine candidate
People infected with the virus that causes AIDS are far less likely to infect their sexual partners if they are put on treatment immediately instead of waiting until their immune systems begin to deteriorate, according to preliminary results from a large clinical trial released Thursday. Patients with H.I.V. were 96 …
The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Children at a community clinic in the village of …
The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century, according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects, says this UN press release. The current world …
ITANAGAR, Despite all possible measures adopted by the State Government and central agencies to create awareness, killer AIDS has spread its tentacles in Arunachal Pradesh over the past decade with 167 HIV positive cases detected till December last. India has the world
Most of India's 2.8 million prostitutes own cellphones – making it easier to contact them about HIV tests. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.100-cellphones-get-help-to-indias-secret-sex-workers.html
Jorhat, The number of people infected with the HIV virus is on the rise in Jorhat. Although the names of AIDS patients are never declared, the number of cases have reached an alarming rate. The Health Department stated that more cases were coming to the light as more and more …
June marks 30 years since the first report of AIDS - a syndrome that has killed an estimated 25 million people worldwide. Yet this year's anniversary is somewhat arbitrary: the virus responsible for AIDS has probably been circulating within human populations for 100 years. Why did it take so long …
JAISALMER: Amid the rolling sand dunes and the flourishing tourism in the desert district of Jaisalmer, the rapid spread of HIV is casting dark shadows. Currently, Jaisalmer is categorised as one of the low-risk areas but the rapid increase in HIV prevalence is threatening to take the desert district among …
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has decided to stop funding programmes aimed at controlling HIV/AIDS. For nine-long years, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded HIV prevention programmes. And it is learnt that Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had asked Gates to continue supporting the next phase …
With an estimated 7,100 people getting infected with HIV every day and India home to 2.7 million HIV positive people, the government on Wednesday launched a new HIV vaccine design programme in the country. It was also announced that a new HIV Vaccine Laboratory will now come up in New …
