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 …
R. PRASAD The Phase IV trial started in June 2006 to treat patients simultaneously for both TB and HIV has returned some important results. The trial once again reinforced the need to treat the afflicted for both the diseases simultaneously. According to earlier guidelines, patients were to be treated for …
Despite there being a low prevalence of the disease in the state, Himachal has adopted a very vigorous approach to check HIV/AIDS epidemic while ensuring that there is no discrimination of infected persons in the mainstream medical services. This was the observation of the six-member World Bank team along with …
Researchers may have discovered a technique that will eventually lead to a way to vaccinate against the AIDS virus, by creating an artificial antibody carried into the body by a virus. This synthetic immune system molecule protected monkeys against an animal version of HIV called SIV, the researchers reported in …
The swine flu virus did not result from a laboratory accident, the World Health Organization said Thursday, working to debunk rumors started by an Australian virologist and circulated by news outlets all over the world.
"Pakistan has more than 80,000 thalassaemia patients, and 250,000 patients require lifetime blood transfusions" stated Dr Mohammad Ata, Clinical Professor Shifa College of Medicine, here at a seminar on Monday, organised by Shifa Foundation Falahi to mark and raise awareness about international thalassaemia day. Dr Mohammad Ata said that Pakistan …
NEW DELHI: A crucial finding by clinicians in Mexico, the country where the deadly H1N1 flu virus originated, could have India worried. Initial observations made by the WHO, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mexican clinicians who studied the first 40 deaths in Mexico show that people with …
Interview with Elizabeth Blackburn, Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN is the Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her ground-breaking work involves the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, called telomeres, which serve as …
President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Mr. Bush made combating global AIDS a centerpiece of his foreign agenda. …
Globally a third of total HIV positive people are affected by tuberculosis, a bacteria-borne disease that affects nearly 300,000 people and kills 70,000 annually in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh ranks five among the 22 high burden TB countries in the world," Professor Dr Pravat Chandra Barua, Line-Director of National TB and Leprosy …
The government has set up check posts at air, river and land ports as pre-cautionary measurers to prevent Swine Flu, a respiratory disease caused by H1N1 virus. This was stated at a meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Health and Family Welfare held at Sangsad Bhaban yesterday with …
The recent enrolment of the first volunteer at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chennai for a Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine clinical trial to be conducted simultaneously at the centre and the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune marks a new beginning in the search for a real AIDS vaccine. …
THE swine flu outbreak seems to have emerged without warning. Within a few days of being noticed, the flu had already spread to the point where containment was not possible. Yet the virus behind it had to have existed for some time before it was discovered. Couldn
Powerful drugs are available to treat H.I.V., but doctors have long argued about when to start therapy. Is it better to treat patients early, exposing them to risky side effects, or to wait until the disease is more advanced? A new analysis suggests that sooner is better than later. The …
Fresh efforts and funding to tackle malaria in recent years have brought the goal of eradicating the deadly disease within sight, health experts said on Friday. Wiping out malaria worldwide could take decades but many countries where it is endemic are on the brink of eliminating the disease, which infects …
A vaccine that protects babies against fatal bacterial infections was introduced in Rwanda last week, its first distribution in a third world country. The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has been sold under the Prevnar brand name in the United States since 2000, and Rwanda will get three million doses
R. Prasad CHENNAI: The first volunteer for the Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial, which will have a duration of two years, has been enrolled by the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here.
Participants in a seminar on Friday called on the imams across the country to create awareness among the common people of HIV/AIDS to fight the deadly disease. They made the call at the seminar titled
A new campaign to save lives and prevent drug resistance by driving the price of the best malaria medicine down to as little as 20 cents was announced Friday by international health agencies and European governments. The subsidy program, unveiled in Norway, will have an initial budget of $225 million …
