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 …
Is the World Health Organization (WHO) targeting Indian generic drug manufacturers? The UN agency recently removed three anti-HIV drugs produced by India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited from its prequalification list. This list is used by procurement agencies to select good quality medicines. Exclusion from the list could affect the availability of …
The world's largest hiv vaccine trial in Thailand has turned out to be an expensive flop. The multi-million dollar trial involves tests on 16,000 Thai citizens and is the last hurdle before the vaccine can be registered and administered freely. The trial is a collaborative effort between the us Military …
mixed signals emanated from the xv International aids Conference 2004, held recently in Bangkok, Thailand's capital. While the meet proceeded in the desired direction by recognising the link between development and the battle with aids, it also witnessed the industrialised countries' indifference towards the less privileged sufferers of the disease. …
the us has charged India with lack of commitment in fighting aids while justifying its choice of Vietnam for its emergency hiv/aids assistance. Vietnam has now become the15th nation in the world to benefit from the us aid. It will receive us $8 million to us $10 million in the …
A Kenyan scientist has accused Oxford University researchers of stealing aids data from the African country and taking it back to the uk for illegal research. The controversy centres around an orphanage, the Nyumbani Home in Nairobi, which is said to hold the key to a likely future cure for …
The clinical trial of an Indian AIDS vaccine has been delayed because of the lack of safety data. The tests, being coordinated by the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), were to be held in July. They have now been rescheduled for the end of 2004 or early 2005. The phase-I …
Canada is on the verge of becoming the first nation to honour a World Trade Organization (wto) pledge on making available cheap generic drugs for hiv/aids-afflicted people in developing countries. The Canadian House of Commons unanimously approved a bill (c-9) that would amend the country's patent laws. The proposed legislation …
The much-awaited AIDS control programme takes off. So why are drug companies still miffed? On the first of April, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), rolled out its long-awaited campaign to reach anti-retroviral drugs to India's victims of the AIDS virus. Called the art initiative (art for anti-retroviral therapy, which …
only mother's son: Japanese and Korean scientists have created a mouse without using a sperm. The feat is akin to the birth of Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal. Bees, ants, aphids, some fish and reptiles reproduce without having sex in a process called parthenogenesis. But creating a living mammal …
Migrant Forum, a part of Coordination of Action Research on aids and Mobility (caram), Asia, an international organisation empowering migrants against aids is active in 21
circumcised men are over six times less likely than uncircumcised men to get infected by hiv. This is the finding of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, usa, and the National aids Research Institute, India. They studied 2,298 hiv-uninfected men attending sexually transmitted infection clinics in India. The …
aids-afflicted people across the country are expected to benefit from the Union government's free anti-retroviral treatment project. The first phase of the plan will commence from April 2004 and would cover six high-risk states. The objective of the project is to reach out to over 1 lakh victims and, over …
the World Health Organization (who) is toeing the Bush administration's line, proves a recent research of the premier health institute. As per the study, infectious syringes account for only 2.5 per cent of the hiv infections in Africa and unsafe sex practices are mainly responsible for the continent's aids crisis. …
On the eve of World aids Day (December 1), Union health minister Sushma Swaraj announced that aids medicine would be made available through the national aids control programme from next year. The plan hinges crucially on an agreement with the Indian generic drug industry to supply medicines cheap. Indeed, companies …
recent cases, such as the one in Uttar Pradesh in which an hiv-positive woman was denied treatment during pregnancy, or that of the woman who was killed in Andhra Pradesh on the mere suspicion that she had contracted the disease, have underscored the need for corrective action. Now, the groundwork …
