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 …
Tender bias: Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma Ltd has sued the South African government for showing bias towards local pharma companies while awarding contracts worth US $400-million to supply anti-retroviral drugs for a UN sponsored HIV/AIDS programme. The company is currently the world
European scientists have discovered a new strain of the virus that causes AIDS and linked it to gorillas, creating a mystery about when and how the first patient found to have the strain became infected. This could be the first time scientists have documented the jump of a simian immunodeficiency …
Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection. They found evidence the parasite that causes most cases of malaria is a close genetic relative of a parasite …
Section 377 of the penal code will apply only to child abuse THE Delhi High Court has de-criminalized consensual gay sex between adults. In its order passed on June 2, the court said Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, relating to unnatural offences, would now apply only to cases …
Unsettled Bill ? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has decided to quit India and hand over its HIV programme to the government ? Since 2003, the foundation has spent $260 million or Rs 1,300 crore on the AIDS programme in India ? There has been criticism that much of …
For the first time, scientists have shown that chimpanzees in the wild become sick and die from the simian version of AIDS. The finding upsets a widely held scientific belief that chimpanzees, the closest relatives to humans, can get the virus that causes simian AIDS but without harm. It also …
Under the auspices of the LWSI Gossaigaon camp, an awareness programme on family planning and promotion of condom was held at Dinghidoba village, some 3 km away from Gossaigaon SDO (C) office with Mohd. Joynal Abedin, lecturer, Gossaigaon College in the chair. The programme was aimed at creating awareness and …
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, celebrating its golden jubilee this year, has planned to scale up its activities in the corporate social responsibility sector in the State. The petroleum major will adopt villages for street lighting and rainwater harvesting and donate furniture and books to select government schools. Besides …
International migrant workers, foreign students and political refugees are often endangered by laws that discriminate against people with AIDS, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch reported last week. About a third of the world
Scientists have developed an HIV test which they claim works in just 30 minutes and can be performed anywhere in the world - no laboratory required. An international team has developed the prototype CD4 rapid test, similar in design to a home pregnancy test, which works with a finger-prick blood …
Researchers in Gabon and France have discovered a new species of malaria parasite, one that lives in chimpanzees but is closely related to the species most deadly to humans. The new species was described last week in the journal PLoS Pathogens. It was named Plasmodium gaboni, and it is closely …
India is an increasingly influential player in the global pharmaceutical market. Key parts of the drug regulatory system are controlled by the states, each of which applies its own standards for enforcement, not always consistent with others. A pilot study was conducted in two major cities in India, Delhi and …
Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday. The damaged water and sewage systems that triggered the recent outbreak in the southern …
