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 …
THE United States Government has launched a US$25million project towards HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia. The project aims at maintaining the existing HIV/AIDS services and scale-up of treatment as prevention, strengthening the health system and supporting Government priorities. Speaking during the launch of the Zambia Prevention, Care and Treatment Partnership (ZPCT …
Released on 18 November ahead of World AIDS Day, the UNAIDS report outlines new targets for the five-year window UNAIDS says is crucial to ending the global threat of HIV. The 40-page report begins with a bold quote arguing that the world has just five years to scale up HIV …
Londuimbali — At least 36 new cases of HIV/AIDS were diagnosed from January until the first half of November this year, in the commune of Alto-Hama Hospital, 66 kilometers north off Huambo city, compared to 15 recorded in the same previous period. Speaking to ANGOP, the head of the Centre …
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment strategies shape the evolution of resistance. In particular, it is not clear whether treating individual patients aggressively with high drug dosages …
Cash transfers – direct cash payments to individuals and households, often targeting the poor and vulnerable – have increasingly become a cornerstone of many low- and middle-income countries’ social protection strategies. Cash transfers help reduce poverty and can reduce economic and gender inequalities, as well as exclusion, all of which …
Ranchi: Jharkhand has seen a sharp rise in the number of deaths due to tuberculosis and AIDS between 2010 and 2013, shows National Aids Control Organization (Naco) data. The state has seen an increase in TB-AIDS deaths since 2000 and in the next one decade, the killer diseases killed about …
Addis Ababa — The UN is planning to conduct a multi-country HIV testing campaign in Africa to mark this year's World AIDS Day in a bid to set a new world record for the most number of HIV tests conducted in one day. The initiative will be conducted under the …
Timely access to considerate antenatal care could prevent the deaths of hundreds of women and girls in South Africa during and after pregnancy, a report released on Thursday showed. Amnesty International found that the majority of maternal deaths in the country were avoidable, and said the main problems were late …
New research that sheds light on the methods and machinery used by HIV to infect cells provides insight into the tricky virus that potentially could guide the development of a vaccine against the cause of AIDS, according to U.S. government and other scientists. Separate studies published on Wednesday describe in …
PARIS – In a boost for the long and frustrating quest for an AIDS vaccine, researchers on Wednesday unveiled molecular imaging of an elusive feature that helps HIV infect immune cells. In papers published in the journals Science and Nature, U.S. specialists described the structure and actions of the “spike” …
A new computer model developed by scientists at the University of Southern Denmark has proven itself to be a powerful ally in the fight against AIDS, according to recent research. The advancement speeds up the development process of anti-HIV drugs several hundred percent, effectively doing in months or even weeks …
Most of us have lost count of the number of times we have visited a doctor or health facility. It is something we take for granted: nothing exceptional, simply routine. Yet in our 21st-century world, 1 billion people have never seen a doctor or received quality health services. Furthermore, given …
KARACHI: Senior Physician of Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP), Dr Sikander Iqbal on Saturday said there are approximately 50 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS in the world and 25 million of people have died of AIDS-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic. He expressed these views while speaking …
The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, “Avoid in each country 40% of premature deaths (under-70 deaths that would be seen in the 2030 population at …
Judgement of the Gujarat High Court regarding 23 minor children suffering from thalassemia contracting HIV during blood transfusion at Civil Hospital of the city of Junagadh, Gujarat dated 10/09/2014.
High early mortality in patients with HIV-1 starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to Europe and North America, is well documented. Longer-term comparisons between settings have been limited by poor ascertainment of mortality in high burden African settings. This study aimed to compare mortality up to four years …
In a significant move, the government has decided to waive off local clinical trials in case of new drugs indicated for serious, life-threatening diseases and diseases of special relevance to Indian health scenario like cancer, AIDS etc., where the likelihood of death is high. Observing that in cases of life-threatening …
Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL; also known as kala-azar) is an ultimately fatal disease endemic in the Indian state of Bihar, while HIV/AIDS is an emerging disease in this region. A 2011 observational cohort study conducted in Bihar involving 55 VL/HIV co-infected patients treated with 20–25 mg/kg intravenous liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome) …
Number Of Women With AIDS Has Fallen In Ernakulam Though the total number of HIV cases has come down in Ernakulam district from 116 cases in 2012 to 101 in 2013, the number of men with HIV has increased. While the district had 83 men living with HIV in 2013, …
VERVENA, South Africa — A fading roadside ad for Selala Funeral Service here captures what was, until recently, the essence of South Africa’s AIDS epidemic: “Tombstones Are Available,” it reads. “Buy One, Get One Free.” Not long ago, even places like Vervena, a blip on the roadside northeast of Pretoria, …
