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 …
Tough measures to curtail the incidence Of AIDS have helped Cuba win what often seems a losing battle in many parts of the world. The methods, adopted a decade ago, include the quarantine of people infected with DIV and an extensive screening programme for pregnant women, blood donors, people with …
RESEARCHERS are now preparing a Unique"cocktail" to cure those unfortunate me ones stricken by the deathly dis, AIDS. Scientists working with the Vju' scheme, sponsored by medical 0stch agencies in Australia and 7 mpean countries - Britain, Ireland, pice, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands d Switzerland - have come up with …
THE lethal human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) may yet be vanquished. Two teams of researchers in the Netherlands and the us have simultaneously unveiled 3-dimensional structures for part of the enzyme that helps the virus infiltrate human dna. The Dutch have also discovered a compound -- hiv integrase -- that can …
THE Asian tigers are imperilled; the booming economies of Asia are facing imminent collapse due to the threat of an AIDS epidemic. Medical experts, academics and social workers attending the Third International Conference on AIDS in Asia in the Thai city of Chiang Mai predict that by the end of …
APES might come to the rescue Oour AfDS-infected planet. After a pro- longed period of deliberations, the us Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green signal to a revolutionary experiment that might lead to the discovery of a cure for this deadly disease. The process involves injecting baboon …
A new device to detect the much feared AIDS virus, is now available in Malaysia. The test is done on the oral fluid of the suspected patient, instead of the usual procedure of testing the blood. This could be of help to children and people who object to have their …
SOS: AIDs, a play being staged in Bombay by Spotlight, a group of concerned theatre professionals, gets across the " .. message: AIDS IS not Just a disease that happens to someone else. It can happen to you. And as there is no cure, it is pretty obvious that vigilance …
AFTER holding up obstinately Lrgainst a volley of criticism for 3 long months, the Russian government has finally buckled down and scrapped its plans of introducing a law which would require foreign visitors staying in Russia for more than 3 months to undergo a compulsory screening for the HIV virus. …
Marcel Sony Labou Tansi. a novelist known for his satire and criticism of colonist Africa and the dictators who followed independence. died of complications due to AIDS. He was 48. His wife Pierrette Tansi, a nurse, died 4 days earlier, also from AIDS. Tansi's novels have made a strong impact …
In the wake of the frightening revelation that infected blood was supplied to 10 city hospitals in Bombay between February 1992 and July 1994, by the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), Bombay -a leading blood bank of the country -the question today is whether blood banks are any longer the …
Low levels of important nutrients like selenium can turn a benign virus into its virulent form, claim American scientists. Researchers Melinda Beck and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, say that Keshan disease - a fatal virusinduced disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscles …
A US company, T Cell Sciences, has developed a cheaper and easier diagnostic test for people infected with AIDS. Called TFAx CD4, the test measures levels of critical white blood cells, known as CD4 cells, that steadily decline in people with HIV. Current techniques are not only expensive, but can …
Indonesia's National Family Planning Board has opened a 24-hour AIDS telephone information line -- the AIDS/HIV Information and Consultancy Service -- for Jakarta residents. According to the daily Jakarta Post, the line will provide expert advice and a recorded message giving information on the dangers of the dreaded disease and …
Many of the Caribbean's hiv positive patients are choosing to keep their status secret from their sexual partners; they continue to have unprotected sex. aids awareness programmes in the region have yet to wipe out the curious belief that if people look healthy, they cannot possibly be infected. The ostracisation …
The dreaded AIDS virus could sooner or later affect the organised industrial labour force in India, leading to an alarming increase in absenteeism by 50 per cent, states a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sponsored study. Conducted by the Deepam Educational Society for Health (DESH), a Madras-based NGO, the findings …
CUBA's plans to rehabilitate its hiv patients within the community rather than locking them up in hospitals has not met with much success. "Uptill now, only 170 people have joined the out-patients scheme, and I have already received several letters requesting readmission," says Jorge Perez Avila, director of the Santiago …
THE scientific community is deeply troubled. The 1st ever reported case of aids was not aids at all! That ends the certainty with which they so long had regarded the origin of the disease. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Centre, New York, claims that the original …
Pressure mounts in the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) for an HIV law. At a United Nations Development Programmeis HIV and Development Regionat Project Workshop held in Colombo in mid-February, the need for more, proactive legal responses to the increasing number of AIDS cases was stressed upon. Among …
That AIDS is a growing concern in Africa was apparent at the Ouagadauga, which hosted Africa's biennial film festival, Fespaco. In addition to its cultural theme, much of cinema there was preoccupied with the problems of urbanisation and, in particular, AIDS.
American scientists say that they now know why HIV does not spread through saliva: a protein called SLPI in human saliva acts as a "guard", binding to white blood cells and stopping them from becoming infected (New Scientist, Vol 145, No 1964). Researchers led by Sharon Wahl and Tessie McNeely …
