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 …
New Delhi: With an idea to diagnose early HIV infection in women, children and TB infected people, the AIDS control organization is all set to expand its new testing technique
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer plan to combine their HIV-drug units into a new company that will control almost 20% of the market for treating the deadly virus. London-based Glaxo will hold 85% of the joint venture and Pfizer the remainder, the drugmakers said in a statement on Thursday. The new company …
Hoping to challenge Gilead Sciences, the leader in H.I.V. drugs, the pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer said Thursday that they would form a specialty company to research, develop and market treatments for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. By combining products from both companies, the new entity would have 11 …
Researchers have identified a new benchmark for starting drug treatment for AIDS, according to a report published online last week in the journal Lancet. Timing of initiation of antiretroviral therapy in AIDS-free HIV-1-infected patients: a collaborative analysis of 18 HIV cohort studies (The Lancet) The question of when to start …
A workshop with Rickshaw Puller leaders was held at Mymensingh HIV/ AIDS Prevention Project office, World Vision. Mymensingh HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. World Vision organised the workship. Press Club Secretary Zillur Rahman was present as chief guest. Dr. Jaistya Kumar Nath, Project Manager presided over the meeting Rashidul Hasan, Programme Manager, …
There are as many as 3,500 AIDS infected in the district, out of a total of 1.50 lakh in the State,disclosed HIV Infected Welfare Association president Anand. Addressing a press meet here on Wednesday, he said that the patients as well as the families of the infected were deprived of …
Rio De Janeiro: The Global TB Control Report released here on World TB Day revealed that one out of four TB deaths in the world are HIV-related, twice as many as previously recognised. Experts said that these numbers should serve as a warning signal to high-burden countries like India to …
Pune As many as 147 out of the 215 TB patients who died in Pune in 2008 had HIV The TB-HIV link is getting stronger in Pune. Out of the 215 tuberculosis (TB) patients who died in 2008 in Pune, at least 147 were infected with HIV. In Pimpri-Chinchwad area, …
BHUBANESWAR: While an estimated prevalence rate of adult HIV has shown a marginal decline in India, a multi-centre study says, the same has recorded a rise in Orissa. The study, focusing on a four-year period 2002-2006, does not paint the overall scenario as grim since it says that there has …
Mumbai: There is a growing belief among experts that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), and its deadlier cousin, the extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR), may soon become bigger threats than HIV-AIDS. Yet these new strains of TB do not find any mention in the national TB control programme. Worse, Mumbai has no …
Will the combo drug succeed? Clinical trial of a combination vaccine against AIDS has begun in India. The Indian Council of Medical Research, the body governing biomedical research in India, is selecting volunteers for the trial. ADVAX and tbc-m 4 vaccines have been tested individually and now the researchers are …
March 6: At least 30 per cent of TB patients in certain areas of the state such as Vijayawada are HIV positive, revealed the TB Alert UK chief executive, Mr Mike Man-delbaum. Mr Mike also informed, "Around 1.7 million people die of TB every year in the world with majority …
New Delhi: Long before anyone knew about Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, and its subsequent syndrome, AIDS, Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi was intrigued by an unknown disease that did not respond to treatment. Twenty-five years after isolating the virus, Prof Barre-Sinoussi maintains that her work is far from over. Joint winner …
TIRUNELVELI: The recent campaign conducted in 19 blocks of the district through mobile cultural troupes to create awareness among the rural masses about HIV/AIDS has created significant impact over the villagers. In an effort to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission and create awareness of the prevention services available in the districts for …
An acid produced in the mouth due to gum disease invigorates the virus that can lead to full-blown AIDS; a Japanese researcher said billing the finding as a world first. A group of bacteria causes periodontal disease a chronic inflammation that erodes bony structure in the gum posing a threat …
Increasingly, voices across the world are questioning the narrow approach to a single disease, especially the huge financing for AIDS over all else in basic healthcare. Though welcome and long overdue, this debate must now move further.
This report offers an original perspective on HIV and AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The analysis challenges the common perception of HIV and AIDS, which has been shaped to a …
Chandigarh: To check the spread of AIDS, the Haryana AIDS Control Society will establish two blood component separation units at Hisar and Faridabad during the current financial year. A spokesman of the society said the blood bank at PGIMS, Rohtak, would be upgraded as a model blood bank, besides establishing …
