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 …
The Indira Gandhi National Open University is going to launch several courses and formal study programmes on social work and HIV/AIDS, masters in social work (MSW) from July 2008. Besides, a PG diploma in social work may also be launched from January 2009. At the first annual Mother Teresa Memorial …
The AIDS bomb is ticking fast in the hill state, already struggling with diseases like TB and cholera. With more than 2,622 HIV positive cases already detected in the state till December 31 last year, it is time for the authorities to sit up. Ironically, 60 per cent of the …
Haryana is on the rise and so is AIDS in the state. The number of HIV positive patients in the state has more than doubled in 2007. A worried government has taken major steps to curb the disease, including opening of 24 STD clinics, besides running target intervention programmes as …
The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) has signed an agreement with pharmaceutical company Pfizer under which the pharma major will give IPM a royalty-free license to use maraviroc, its newly approved HIV treatment, as a microbicide for the prevention of HIV infection. Maraviroc is one of a new class of …
In conservative Jammu and Kashmir, the AIDS epidemic is spreading fast with 42 deaths in 2007 and 211 fresh cases detected. "A total of 211 fresh cases were registered in Jammu and Kashmir in 2007, showing a sharp increase in the number of AIDS patients in the state. However, the …
Riding on the back of a populist Budget, Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram today reiterated UPA Government's commitment for economic uplift of the north eastern region (NER), announcing a hike of Rs 2082 crore in Central allocation. The NER will continue to receive special attention and enhanced allocations. "I propose to …
Congress and the White House are preparing to ramp up spending on programs to combat AIDS and related diseases around the world while removing some of the ideological blinders that have long undermined the effort to slow the spread of the AIDS virus. It will be a welcome strengthening of …
Japan will provide $184 million of fresh aid to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Friday. This will bring Tokyo's total contribution to $850 million since the fund was established in 2002 to combat the three diseases that kill 5 million people …
Chandigarh, February 17 Members of the People living with HIV AIDS, a centre for the AIDS infected people that is being managed by the State AIDS Control Society, Chandigarh, are fighting a lone battle for medical and other facilities that are quite expensive for the families enrolled with the centre. …
some of India's critical public health schemes have a long track record of corruption. The World Bank has a long record of hiring expensive consultants to tell us so. In this cynical theatre arrives another review by the bank of health programmes funded by its loans. It tells us how …
The number of people reported infected with HIV in a year in Japan reached a record high of 1,048 in 2007, while that of people reported to have developed AIDS came to 400, bringing the total to 1,448, preliminary data released Tuesday by the government's AIDS Surveillance Committee showed. It …
SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 11: US Government scientists have discovered a new way that HIV attacks human cells, an advance that could provide fresh avenues for the development of additional therapies to stop AIDS, they reported on Sunday. The discovery is the identification of a new human receptor for HIV. The …
Abeneficial bacteria, widely found in yogurt, might help the scientists to stop or slow down HIV transmission rate, a recent study has revealed. The research, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston this week, was conducted by physicians and scientists of the University of Washington and …
In a small room, in a modest, but well-maintained building in Central Cairo, a phone rings. The caller, a woman, suspects that her husband has been having sex with someone else. She is concerned that she might be at risk of catching hiv. The call that lasts no more than …
Hundreds of millions of people live and work in forests across the world. One vital aspect of their lives, yet largely unexamined, is the challenge of protecting and enhancing the unique relationship between the health of forests and the health of people. This book is the first comprehensive introduction to …
The objective of this report is to monitor global progress in the health sector as it scales up HIV prevention, treatment and care interventions towards universal access . The current report is the second in a series of annual progress reports developed by the WHO, the joint UNAIDS and the …
the us has found a new target. Now it says aids came to its shores from Haiti. Researchers from the University of Arizona say gene sequences from the blood specimens collected in 1982
Wanted: medicine for a group whose voice is still too small to be heard IMAGINE a class of human beings, amounting to about one-third of world's population, whose needs are barely noticed by the people who are dealing with all the most pressing public-health problems. In fact, such a group …
The final report of the third National Family Health Survey (nfhs-3) is out, but doubts remain whether it will be used to improve national health policies. Although 100-odd research papers have been written using data from the previous two national family health surveys
kala-azar is spreading. Two cases of the disease, usually found in eastern parts of India, have been reported from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The pathogen could spread in the area because sandflies, which transmit it, are already present in the region. The treatment for kala-azar is generally expensive and has …
