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 Assam State AIDS Control Society has started implementing the phase III of the National AIDS Control Society (NACP), with the main objective of halting and reversing the trend of the AIDS epidemic by the year 2012. The number of HIV positive cases detected in the State in the year …
Two hundred and thirty-one people were diagnosed with AIDS while 37 of them died in last one year in the country, Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque has said. He said 343 HIV positive patients were diagnosed last year taking the total number of the affected to 2,088. The total number …
As many as 2,501 HIV infected cases have been reported in the district and since 2003, a total of 390 persons have died due to AIDS, said District t AIDS Controlling Officer Dr Jagdish. He was addressing a press conference at SNR Hospital in Kolar on Tuesday. Giving out taluk-wise …
A rarely-used system intended to help poor countries import generic versions of patent-protected drugs was the main focus of discussions at the October session of the TRIPS Council. Developing countries also raised serious concerns over the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
“Today I will start with a three-part sermon on Jesus was HIV-positive,” South African pastor Xola Skosana recently said in a Sunday church service. The words stunned the congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township who felt the pastor was portraying Jesus as sexually promiscuous. But Skosana told those gathered that …
In another indication that India has managed to contain its HIV/AIDS problem, the latest report by UNAIDS says the number of new cases annually has shown a 50 per cent fall from eight years ago. In 2009, 1.2 lakh people acquired the infection, which is half of the 2.4 lakh …
HIV/AIDS testing centres in Meghalaya have detected 151 positive cases in five months, but experts say the number is not alarming. Between April and August this year, a total 2,616 persons were examined for HIV virus out of which 121 were found to be positive cases, a report from the …
A new treatment that destroys HIV-infected human cells without damaging healthy ones has been developed by a team of Israeli researchers. The therapy, developed by scientists from the university's Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the Institute of Chemistry, destroys cells infected with HIV without damaging adjacent healthy cells. …
HIV-positive cases in children on the riseIt’s an alarming fact that has made the Union health ministry sit up and take notice: data from across the country is showing a rise in the number of paediatric HIV cases. Of the 2.5 million people with HIV in India today, four per …
Malaria appears to have jumped to humans from gorillas, and the parasite may have spread globally from a single gorilla to a single human, according to researchers. DNA from the droppings of nearly 3,000 apes
In a discovery that sheds new light on the history of AIDS, scientists have found evidence that the ancestor to the virus that causes the disease has been in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years
NEW DELHI: India and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) have signed a three-year grant agreement for $128.4 million or Rs.609.9 crore to support the continuation of flagship programmes of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO). The agreement was signed on Wednesday between NACO director-general K. …
A study conducted by a city-based NGO has revealed that suburban Kurla has reported the highest number of malaria, diarrhoea, dengue, HIV and other diseases in the last two years.Praja Foundation, a Mumbai-based voluntary organisation, yesterday released a white paper on the city
