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 …
An aids epidemic is just waiting to explode behind the locked doors of Brazil's prisons. And the situation is worsening every minute. Medical facilities are on the brink of a total breakdown, the jails face near-endemic overcrowding and the authorities are indifferent to the pathetic conditions inside these prisons. Take …
the Maharashtra government has withdrawn a controversial circular seeking to isolate hiv -positive women in the state and carrying out compulsory Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (aids) tests on them. Several non-governmental organisations (ngos) had opposed the government's move. According to these ngo s, the order violates constitutional provisions. The health …
researchers have managed to prepare a mighty arsenal of drugs to combat aids as the global war against the disease nears its third decade. Studies have led to the development of potent cocktails of anti- hiv drugs that unleash a powerful counter attack, pounding down billions of virus particles to …
researchers in France have found a secondary genetic mutation that could help provide resistance to the aids virus. Alberto Beratto of St Joseph's hospital, Paris, and Luc Montagnier of the prestigious Pasteur Institute
In their battle against AIDS, HIV-positive people of Nepal have found a new ally: the government. Recently, the ministry of health and ministry of women and social welfare announced an extensive HIV / AIDS education programme that plans to increase the students' access to non-discriminatory medical services. The number of …
Surendra Rohtagi, a Kanpur-based medical expert, is on the verge of a breakthrough for a treatment for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The fight against the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has received a shot in the arm, thanks to this Indian doctor. Rohtagi was recently granted a patent for …
according to a recent study, one in every 500 bottles of voluntarily donated blood in Mumbai, screened for the hiv virus could transmit aids . The study could pose fresh problems for the State Health Department, already struggling to comply with the Supreme Court's ban on professional blood donors. The …
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or sexually transmitted infections (STIs), have been recognised as a major public-health problem for a number of years. In 1912, Prince Morrow, chair of the US committee looking into the problem of venereal diseases, was quoted as saying "it is a conservative estimate that fully one-eighth …
two prostitutes in Kenya have a surprising resistance to aids . Researchers at a clinic in the Majengo slum on the outskirts of Nairobi say that Hawa Chelangat, 34, and Hadija Chemutai, 31, are immune to hiv . They are cousins, divorced, desperately poor and have been working as prostitutes …
as much as 0.4 per cent of India's population has aids . The country has the sixth highest incidence of aids in Southeast Asia, says a World Bank ( wb ) report titled Confronting aids : Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic . The report adds that the problem is …
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the us have abandoned plans to use dummy pills in an experiment on Ethiopian women who are pregnant and infected with the aids virus. The use of the dummy pills as a placebo has renewed the intense debate over the ethics …
a group of activists and health professionals in the us have offered to test a controversial aids vaccine on themselves. Their offer is a part of a calculated effort to break the deadlock that has frustrated researchers since the start of the aids epidemic. Scientists know vaccines are the best …
AUTOMATIC vending machines for condoms will be available at street corners throughout the country by December. The scheme has been finalised by the Union health ministry as part of its AIDS control programme. The ministry has asked for prototypes of the machine from indigenous manufacturers, which can accommodate different types …
aids cases in Cuba has increased to an alarming proportion during 1997. Jorge Perez, director of the aids Sanatorium of Santiago Las Vegas says, during the first half of 1997, nearly 234 cases of hiv infection were detected that are equal to the total cases reported during 1996. Till today, …
in st Louis, Missouri, usa , hundreds of healthy people are leasing their bodies to medical research and contributing to the development of a vaccine for aids . They are receiving injections containing canarypox viruses that cause disease in birds but are harmless to humans. After being genetically-engineered, the viruses …
the us has been conducting experiments for the past two years on pregnant women infected with hiv in Africa, Thailand and the Dominican Republic. These women were given drugs that can prevent transmission of the deadly aids virus to their babies. Some of them received dummy pills only. The studies …
latest data collected from all the surveillance centres under the National Aids Control Organisation ( naco ) indicates that one in every 10 persons from high-risk groups, such as commercial sex workers, are infected with the aids -causing hiv virus in Maharashtra and Manipur. According to naco , a total …
Intentionally infecting another person with HIV may become a criminal offence in England and Wales under proposals being considered by the government. A draft bill due to be published later this year, to amend the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, will be based on a Law Commission report from …
public health officials in west Africa say the hunting and consumption of bushmeat (meat from hunting wild animals) leads to the transmission of hiv related virus among local villagers. The major outbreak of Ebola virus in Gabon last summer that claimed the lives of 13 villagers has also been linked …
