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 …
a recently announced attempt by India's National aids Control Organisation (naco) and unaids to collect data on hiv/aids deaths in the country might prove futile. While countries like the us , Canada and Australia do collect such data, it is not clear how much ground reality can be captured by …
there is no galloping hiv epidemic in India, the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw) asserted recently . A sharp decrease in the number of new cases of hiv infection has been observed in 2004: 28,000 as against 2003's 520,000. But the ministry's claims have been met with …
research has shown that if an Indian gets infected with the human immuno virus (hiv), the chances are that it will quickly develop into a case of full-blown aids ( acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The problem seems to be that Indians have a preponderance of susceptible genes, which increases the rate …
scientists from the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University have discovered two viruses in Cameroon, Africa, that belong to the retrovirus family, which causes several illnesses, including aids. The two
A new tax introduced by the newly formed East Africa Customs Union (eacu) will increase the prices of hiv drugs in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, accentuating the sufferings of the most vulnerable people of the region. The eacu has levied a 10 per cent duty on goods imported into the …
Two crucial components of Kazakhstan's water woes were resolved recently. Following a bilateral agreement, neighbouring Kyrgyzstan agreed to reduce water outflow from its Toktogul reservoir from 740 cubic meters a second (m 3 /s) to 650 m 3 /s, media reports said. This will reduce the possibility of overflow from …
malaria and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection are both endemic in several countries. While the effects of hiv infection on malaria have been documented, can malaria also enhance hiv transmission and accelerate disease progression? The answer is in the affirmative, according to a recently published article in The Lancet (Vol …
Calling the matter criminal neglect is a gross understatement. The National Institutes of Health (nih), the us government's premier health research agency, has been accused of risking the lives of hundreds of mothers and babies in Uganda by concealing information on flaws in a us- funded study on a drug …
Hollywood actor Richard Gere met Manmohan Singh a few days ago. Former US president Bill Clinton will be here in March. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who has already visited "incredible" India three times since 1997, might follow soon. Their common concern: AIDS. The Delhi-based Gere Foundation India Trust has spent …
two Indian pharmaceutical companies, including pharma major Ranbaxy, have voluntarily pulled their anti- aids drugs out of the World Health Organization's (who) " prequalification' list. While Ranbaxy withdrew its seven remaining drugs on the list, Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs withdrew all its six drugs on it. The reason cited was flaws …
Samoa has sown the seeds of a bitter intellectual property rights battle in the Pacific region, claiming sole rights over a gene-sequence found in the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans) used to make the aids and cancer drug prostratin. But the tree grows widely across the Pacific and has been used …
Two hundred thousand traditional medicine practitioners of South Africa will be officially recognised as health-care professionals. So says a new legislation passed on September 9. According to health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the Traditional Health Practitioners Bill received near unanimous backing in the South African parliament. Under the new law, a …
for andhra farmers: The government has formed a 13-member commission to examine the agricultural system of Andhra Pradesh and formulate an action plan to strengthen it so that the high rate of suicides by farmers can be checked. The state's agriculture minister N Raghuveera Reddy said the commission will also …
legal backing: The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and other civic agencies to permit water harvesting in as many public sector buildings as possible. In an order issued on August 25, 2004, it also directed authorities concerned to allow the activity on flyovers that have …
aids is threatening the traditional agricultural practices of Mozambique, indicates a study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (fao). The finding is alarming, as more than 1.3 million people in the country are suffering from the disease. During the fao research, about 90 men and women from three communities …
