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 …
Chagas' disease kills nearly 50,000 people in Latin America every year. It is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which can permanently damage heart and nervous system. Till now, all the treatment attempted to cure the disease have been unsuccessful. Recently, the doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, …
The next generation of anti-AIDS drugs could be based on a chemical extracted from green coffee beans, US researchers claim. Edward Robinson and his colleagues from the University of California made extracts from over 60 plants routinely used by medicine men of the Kallawaya tribes in Bolivia. They discovered that …
Counsellors in Heera Mandi, Pakistan's well-known red light district in Lahore, have proved very effective in spreading HIV/AIDS awareness among the largely illiterate sex workers. The results of a recent survey carried out for UNAIDS-Pakistan shows that an overwhelming 93 per cent of the commercial sex workers are aware of …
THE cases of mv infection in Russian soldiers have quadrupled in the past one year. Half of these soldiers are in Moscow's military district itself, say army officials. They blame the rise of drug abuse among the country's abused and hungry soldiers. Mikhail Kislitsyn, Moscow military district prosecutor, says that …
People with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a surprisingly active thymus, an organ at the base of the neck that sends out immune cells but winds down with age. Researchers assumed that anyone with HIV would have an inactive thymus due to attack by the virus and normal ageing. …
ONE of the biggest threats that we face as we take the last few steps towards the new millennium is from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Spreading more rapidly than the proverbial wildfire, this universally-feared disease infects over 16,000 new victims every day. And in developing countries, the situation is …
INDIA will start clinical trials this year of the anti-HIV drug, AZT, on pregnant women, despite high costs and doubts about its efficacy. The trials will be conducted in Mumbai, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, say officials at the Union government's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), The government has identified these …
twenty years ago, the world received a major jolt when reports about the existence of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) virus was confirmed. It has spread so fiercely over the years that it now rivals history's deadliest epidemics
The world's 12,000 top researchers believe that HIV-infected mothers can protect their babies from the killer virus. Recent studies reveal that if the infected mother is administered the anti-HIV drug, AZT, and gives birth by caesarean, chances of the virus transfer to a baby is virtually eliminated. The studies are …
a california-based company, VaxGen, has received permission from the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) to conduct the world's first large-scale test of aidsvax
• The ministry of environment and forests has banned setting up of new units to manufacture aerosols products using ozone depleting substances (ODS). Aerosols use ODS such as Chlorofluorocarbons as propellants to spray chemicals or fragrances. • Two of the three artificially reared Siberian cranes that visited Keoladeo National Park, …
an estimated 3.5 million people in India are infected with the acquired immune-deficiency syndrome ( aids), according to the World Health Organisation and the United Nations aids Programme. About 2.4 per cent of the population in Maharashtra, and 1.2-1.6 per cent in the southern states and Manipur are infected with …
the acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome ( aids ) is widely believed to have resulted from infection by a virus known as the human immuno-deficiency virus ( hiv ). Two aids viruses have been identified so far, hiv -1 and hiv -2. It is clear that both came from Africa, where the …
South Asia, the world's most populous region, may be the worst HIV/AIDS hit area by the next millennium. If concerted efforts are not taken in time, AIDS will soon be killing more people annually than an atom bomb. These views were expressed at a meeting of the South Asian Association …
Burma may have the world's highest rate of HIV infection and AIDS contracted from dirty needles, say medical experts. The government has reported registering only 60,000 drug addicts, with as few as 17,000 infected with AIDS. Foreign medical experts put the total number of addicts closer to 5,00,000 and estimate …
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa are at a critical turning point in their effort to address the problems of rapid population growth and poor reproductive health, says a study of Population Action International (pai). The economic growth of countries such as Kenya, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe largely depend on …
a confidential database of people being treated for hiv and their medical regimes will be set up in Australia later this year, to address concerns that thousands of hiv patients are not on medication. One of the first in the world, the database will record the number of patients who …
social and economic upheaval in Russia, along with the influx of heroin and other illegal drugs, have led to a rapid increase in the number of drug addicts. This rise is shadowed by a steep increase in the incidence of hiv
the number of hiv positive cases in India is currently estimated at three million, says a study. The risk of vertical transmission of aids to new born children has also greatly increased, says the report which was recently presented at meeting between representatives of the government and the United Nations …
