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 …
Lawmakers in the Indonesian province of Papua are debating a bill which proposes to implant microchips in hiv positive people. The legislation proposes tracking the movements of hiv-positive people who behave in what some MPs describe as
The availability of multiple data sources and new methods of estimation resulted in a more accurate estimate of the HIV population in India in 2006. A critical review of the data and methods used in the past and current estimation processes is offered in this article.
After TERI Award for HIV/AIDS initiatives this year, Tata Steel has now bagged CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2008 for its corporate social responsibility efforts. Competing with many business organisations, the company bagged the award after a two-part assessment process involving a site visit followed by jury investigation. It is not the …
The World Health Organization has published a provocative model that explores the possibility of "eliminating" the HIV epidemic by annually testing everyone on a voluntary basis and treating all infected people, regardless of their clinical status.
Joe C Mathew & P B Jayakumar / New Delhi/mumbai December 03, 2008, 0:48 IST First time, an Indian court revisits a patent office order. In a ruling that can have far-reaching implications on the way medicine patents are granted in the country, the Madras High Court today called for …
NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World AIDS Day-2008, the Indian Red Cross Society along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies launched the
Aarti Dhar, NEW DELHI: Injecting drug users (IDUs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) require particular attention in the fight against HIV/AIDS and HIV continues to be a major public health problem in the South East Asia Region, with the highest incidence among sex workers and their clients, …
An estimated nine million Asians have been infected with HIV since its first appearance in the region more than 20 years ago, while approximately 2.6 million men, 950,000 women and 330,000 children have so far died of AIDS- related disease, says a report of the Commission on AIDS in Asia. …
Nigerian researchers from the University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Technology say that some drug and vaccine testing could be done in goats rather than primates. Their research suggests an encephalitis retrovirus infecting goats provides insight into the neuropathology of HIV-induced dementia.
Millions of migrants across Southeast Asia are vulnerable to HIV infection as they lack access to AIDS-related services and legal or social protection, an joint ASEAN-UN report said Thursday. In Thailand, which has more comprehensive data, migrant fishermen showed HIV infection rates of up to 9.0 per cent, according to …
A national network constituted with the participation of media people, persons with HIV positives, and NGO activities after completing the two days long training programme organised on reducing social stigma on HIV and AIDS by Nari Unnayan Shakti supported by SARDM, World Bank at Khulna on Caritas Auditorium on 1-2 …
DH News Service, Bangalore: Karnataka ranks third amongst the five high HIV prevalence states after Manipur and Andhra Pradesh according to Karnataka State Report of the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) released on Tuesday. The prevalence in the State is more than twice as high as the national average …
A total of 1,207 people have been found HIV positive across the country while 12,000 are believed to be carrying the virus, says a surveillance study report. The rate of HIV positive among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dhaka city is seven percent, it added. Quoting the government's 7th round …
Nearly 60 million women will give birth without any medical assistance this year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday in a report calling for an overhaul of how health care is financed and managed globally. The United Nations agency said in its annual World Health Report that the …
CAPE TOWN, Oct 13 (Reuters) - South Africa's Health Minister said on Monday Thabo Mbeki's government wasted time in fighting HIV/AIDS and vowed to step up efforts after years of controversy when her predecessor advocated beetroot and garlic as treatment. South Africa, which has one of the world's heaviest HIV …
Prizes for research on HIV, cancer, symmetry and fluorescent protein SOMETIMES the absence of something can be as telling as its presence. So it is with this year
