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 Data Was Released By Union Ministry Of Health Undivided Andhra Pradesh reported the highest number of pregnant mothers testing positive for HIV in 2013. According to recent data from the Union ministry of health and family welfare, 1,330 pregnant women of the nearly seven lakh carrying mothers screened in …
Over 9,000 cases of HIV have been detected so far in Assam, the State government said today. In a written reply in the Assembly on behalf of the Health Minister, State Agriculture Minister Nilamani Sen Deka said that as on March 31, 2014, a total of 9,110 cases of HIV …
PORVORIM: Not a village, not a ward in Goa, is left untouched by HIV, though HIV infections in Goa have reduced in recent years, health minister Laxmikant Parsekar told the Goa legislative assembly on Monday. Replying to a starred question by Curchorem BJP MLA Nilesh Cabral, Parsekar said that considering …
The number of newly discovered HIV cases in people aged 60 or older increased in Beijing in recent years. Men who have sex with men remain one of the key groups in which the city is intervening to stop the spread of HIV, said an official from the city's Center …
KATHMANDU, July 30: The number of HIV-infected people has touched 22 thousand and 994 in Nepal, the government latest report states. Of the HIV-infected in the country, 14 thousand and 561 are males, 8,407 are females and 26 third genders, according to the latest data provided by the National Centre …
India has over 40 million Hepatitis B infected patients, second only to China, and most people with chronic Hepatitis B or C are unaware of their infection, putting them at serious risk of developing cirrhosis or liver cancer which are life threatening. As India observes World Hepatitis Day on Monday, …
Bangladesh has made a remarkable success in reducing deaths from tuberculosis and malaria, says a study of the University of Washington. It says between 2000 and 2013, deaths from TB in the county have fallen by 6.7 percent compared to 3.7 percent globally, while deaths from malaria have fallen by …
In a startling revelation, an analysis for the Global burden of Diseases has suggested that estimates of the number of people living with HIV are 18•7 per cent smaller than UNAIDS’s estimates in 2012. The number of people living with malaria is larger than estimated by WHO. Significantly, the number …
KARACHI: Pakistan has registered accelerated decline in death rates from TB and malaria since 2000, when the Millennium Development Goals were established to stop the spread of these diseases by 2015. Although less pronounced, Malaria cases in Pakistan dropped to 2.9 percent annually between 2000 and 2013 while malaria mortality …
HIV/AIDS mortality rate rising by 11pc annually in Pakistan Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - Karachi—Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in …
Last year, more than 545,500 Indians who did not suffer from HIV died from TB, males were almost twice as likely to be victims of the deadly disease, says a new report that will be published online in The Lancet Tuesday. Fewer people in India are dying from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, …
Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/Aids) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in mortality rates from HIV/Aids in Pakistan, according to the study that examines data from …
AIDS researchers seeking to cure HIV with a one-two punch got an early hint the approach may work by successfully using an old cancer drug to kick the virus out of hiding in a pilot study in Denmark. Researchers from Aarhus University gave the medicine romidepsin to six HIV-infected people …
Imphal: The overall detection of HIV positive cases in Manipur rose from 25,919 in March 2007 to 40,855 in March 2012, indicating the serious magnitude in the state, according to a copy of the CAG report. This was in spite of incurring an expenditure of Rs 43.39 crore for implementation …
With the advent of effective antiretroviral treatment, the life expectancy for people with HIV is now approaching that seen in the general population. Consequently, the relative importance of other traditionally non-AIDS-related morbidities has increased. We investigated trends over time in all-cause mortality and for specific causes of death in people …
THE Federal Government’s efforts through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) notwithstanding, Nigeria is one of the 15 countries accounting for over 75 per cent of the 2.1 million new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infections that occurred in 2013. According to The Gap Report released yesterday by …
AIDS can be brought under control by 2030, according to a global report issued by the United Nations AIDS agency on Wednesday. The UNAIDS report said new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were falling, and the number of people infected with HIV was stabilising at around 35 million worldwide. …
There is a chance the Aids epidemic can be brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency. It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling. However, it called for far more international effort as the "current …
The number of people living with HIV worldwide has remained virtually unchanged in the past two years and AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest since peaking almost a decade ago, according to a report from the United Nations AIDS agency released Wednesday. Officials declared that ending the AIDS epidemic is …
The number of people who are newly infected with HIV is continuing to decline in most parts of the world. There were 2.1 million [1.9 million–2.4 million] new HIV infections in 2013—a decline of 38% from 2001, when there were 3.4 million [3.3 million–3.6 million] new infections. In the past …
