HIV drug resistance: brief report 2024
This brief report summarizes recent information on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in the era of integrase-strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) for HIV prevention and treatment. In this report, WHO documents
AIDS
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4 HIV/Aids infected kids driven out from home
Local health workers have rescued four children infected with HIV/AIDS from remote Belapur VDC after they were they were thrown out from their home. Four children of a family-- Laxmi BK, 15, Suni BK, 13, Tej BK, 11 and Karishma BK, 6-- were driven out from their house after they were found to be patients of HIV/AIDS. Jahare Luhar, the grandfather of the destitute children drove them out from the house mercilessly. The children, whose parents died of HIV/AIDS , were pushed into grave difficulty after their grandfather took such a decision.
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Over Rs3bn allocated for health schemes
: The Sindh government has allocated Rs3027.936 million for 21 new and 62 ongoing health schemes under the annual development programme in the 2007-08 budget. Last year it had made allocations for 19 new and 61 ongoing health schemes. The government has allocated Rs50 million for the Enhanced HIV/Aids control programme and Rs2.5 million for the reproductive health project against the ongoing foreign project assistance in the new fiscal year.
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School AIDS education programme in Mankachar
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AIDS awareness camp organized
A Dibrugarh based social organisation called Devoted Ethical Society Towards Integrating National Youths (DESTINY) organised an AIDS awareness programme at Sri Durga Mandir High School, Paltan Bazaar, Dibrugarh on June 7. Dr Kharga Nanda Handique and Md Abidur Rahman, counselor, Assam Medical College and Hospital (AMCH), Dibrugarh attended the programme as resource persons. More than hundred people participated in the awareness programme, a press release stated.
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UN calls for lifting travel restrictions on HIV carriers
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called for an end to discrimination against people carrying the AIDS virus, including travel restrictions imposed on them by some countries. "I call for a change in laws that uphold stigma and discrimination, including restrictions on travel for people living with HIV," he said at the opening of a two-day, high-level meeting in the General Assembly on UN targets set in 2001 to roll back the disease worldwide.
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Eagle's Eye: Will India reaffirm commitment to TB/HIV in NY?
India continues to have the highest TB burden in the world. Research needs to be stepped up to deliver a new generation of effective anti-TB drugs and diagnostics to keep co-infected people alive -Bobby Ramakant On June 9, for the first-time government, public health and business leaders, heads of UN agencies and advocates are coming together at United Nations (UN) Headquarters to acknowledge HIV/TB as an urgent priority. This first HIV/TB Global Leaders' Forum, convened by Dr Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Stop TB, seeks to galvanize leadership at all levels.
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Evaluating drug resistance in HIV positive people
R. PRASAD The presence of drug resistant strains may be found even in HIV infected people who have never been on antiretroviral drugs Drug resistance may arise even when there is good compliance as the virus keeps mutating Of the 60 patients tested so far in a hospital in Chennai, 45 failed for the first-line drugs Transmitted resistance: In a study conducted at YRG Care, Chennai, of the 50 volunteers who had never been on antiretroviral drugs, about 14 per cent were found to have viruses with mutations that may lead to drug resistance.
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Waging war on AIDS
WHO meets its ambitious '3 by 5' target, although a tad late, writes Maria Cheng from London In 2003, the World Health Organisation began its ambitious '3 by 5' initiative to treat AIDS, promising to put three million infected people worldwide on anti-retroviral drugs within two years. According to a report issued on Monday, the WHO finally succeeded last year. Despite missing their deadline, officials were upbeat. "If every UN health target was met just two years late, the world would be a much better place," said Dr Kevin De Cock, director of WHO's AIDS department.
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Healing The World
Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in health conditions that have taken place over the past century. Indeed, millions of deaths in impoverished nations are avoidable with prevention and treatment options that the rich world already uses. This year, 10 million children will die in low- and middle-income countries. If child death rates were the same as those in developed countries, this figure would be lower than one million. Conversely, if child death rates were those of rich countries just 100 years ago, the figure would be 30 million.
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HIV centre in TN gave expired' pills to 60 patients
V Mayilvaganan | TNN Thanjavur: An anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre at the Thanjavur medical college has given expired drugs to at least 60 people living with HIV/AIDS. While experts say it isn't dangerous to take such drugs after the expiry date, some HIV positive people have complained of itching, vomiting and giddiness.