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 has played a crucial role in making essential medicines available and affordable for patients in the developing world through generic drugs. This has been possible by linking India’s patent policies and laws to public interest. Similarly, policies that align public funded R&D in India with public health have the …
India is taking steps to reverse anti-counterfeiting measures in some east African nations that could stop the importation of generic drugs made in the country.
Since the first report on the serodiagnosis of HIV-1 infection in 1987, several laboratories from India have contributed significantly to the knowledge of HIV/AIDS over the years. These reports span a wide range of disciplines including serological and molecular characterization of the viral strains circulating in India; elucidation and characterization …
C Shivakumar | ENS There is hesitation among the states as financially they are not supported for fulfilling the obligation created in the statute -- EM Sudarshana Nachiappan THE HIV/AIDS Bill, aimed at preventing discrimination and t protecting the rights of people living with the disease is getting delayed as …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sanctioned a HIV/AIDS project worth USD 1.47 million for the North Eastern States of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur and Nagaland. The region
In a breakthrough in research for HIV treatment, scientists on Sunday claimed to have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of an enzyme responsible for propagating the virus in a body. The design of enzyme
Pune Principal scientist & project director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative speaks at seminar on new trends in vaccine development New findings have doubled the efforts for an AIDS vaccine, said Dr Sanjay Phogat, principal scientist and project director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Despite being signatory to international conventions on children and HIV/AIDS, India is apathetic to the plight of children orphaned by the disease, say campaigners.
The West Bengal State Aids Prevention Control Society has taken up a project to collect blood samples of expectant mothers by pricking their fingers to check whether they are HIV positive or not. The needle would be pricked in the finger and a drop of blood will be taken on …
The government has lowered its estimates for the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India from 23.1 lakh in 2007 to 22.7 lakh in 2008-09. Estimates of the prevalence of the infection are down to 0.29 per cent from 0.36 per cent in 2007.
RASHME SEHGAL The department of biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace to develop new vaccines to combat tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, rabies, leprosy, HIV AIDS and cancer. Dr M.K. Bhan, secretary, department of biotechnology, admitted that five vaccines, including those for cholera and malaria are in the advanced trial stage. …
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort …
A slew of deadly diseases like AIDS and swine flu have transmitted from animals to humans due to climate change and dramatic environmental disruptions, scientists in the US have claimed warning that the phenomenon may continue in future.
The monthlong Maharashtra leg of the Red Ribbon Express, which was flagged off from Delhi last year, will begin on Monday with the train painted yellow and red chugging into Amalner station in Jalgaon. An awareness and training campaign of the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) and Indian Railways, the …
The authors aimed to analyse treatment outcomes of patients receiving first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) through the national AIDS control programme of India.
Patralekha Chatterjee COPENHAGEN SHOWED how fast and far India has traveled geo-politically. The same, alas, cannot be said about the health of the nation. On the international stage, India's relentless focus on equity made us proud. The time has come to apply that principle at home. India's ailing health delivery …
Aids treatment in India has received a setback with the World Health Organisation (WHO) issuing a recommendation last week to phase out Stavudine, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV. Forty-five per cent patients in the country use Stavudine or d4T due to its low cost and widespread availability, and …
