This comprehensive report has been prepared with the objective to map the available evidences on impact on climate change on HIV responses and identify key research priorities through an evidence gap -
New Delhi: Nearly 25 years after HIV was detected in India, travel restrictions continue to bar patients from free movement through nations. HIV-related travel restrictionsexist in 45 countries. The Global
According to a new UN report, incidence of new HIV infections has fallen by half across 25 countries The rate of new HIV infections in India has dropped by an encouraging 57% over the last decade thanks to increased domestic spending towards the AIDS response. According to a new UN report, incidence of new HIV infections has fallen by half across 25 countries.
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has failed to utilise the funds for the last three years despite increasing assistance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) every year. According to the
Findings have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry The HIV-AIDS laboratory at the city-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has found that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I (HIV-1) has been undergoing a process of evolution in India over the past decade and possibly in other parts of the world. The study — with 165 samples — conducted from 2010 to 2011 by a group of scientists led by Professor Ranga Uday Kumar of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the centre has been published in the November 7th issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, accessible at http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2012/11/06/jbc.M112.397158.abstract.
<p>Joseph Amon and colleagues discuss the challenges of conducting human rights research in settings where local research ethics committees may favor the interests of the state over the interests of research
A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Tuesday asked an expert committee to come up with suggestions to curb spread of malaria and dengue in the city. The order came after government authorities filed an affidavit showing that cases of malaria had increased from 5,504 last year to 13,480 this year. The cases of dengue registered till August last year were 283, but against this, 439 cases have been registered this year.
Concerned over the ill effects of Stavudine d4T, a first-line drug against HIV for long, the Centre plans to replace it with safer and better-tolerated Tenofovir and Zidovudine. Stavudine has been linked
A mysterious new disease has left a number of people in Asia and some in the US with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The disease affects the immune system of the patient
India had witnessed a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases — a 56 per cent drop — in the past 10 years. “HIV infections have declined by 56 per cent during the last decade from 2.7 lakh in 2000 to 1.2 lakh in 2009 in our country,” Indian Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said in the national capital. “This has been possible due to political support at the highest levels to the various interventions under National AIDS Control Programme, including Parliamentarians and elected leaders at the state and local levels and cooperation received from NGOs, civil society, etc” the minister said at a symposium while addressing an international HIV vaccine symposium.
Upcoming patent expiries stand to make medicines cheaper — although less convenient.
