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 -
India's success in polio eradication has infused positive energy into the global campaign against the disease, Bill Gates, founder-chairperson of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said on Thursday.
Apart from slashing 20 per cent VAT on the price of petrol in the city to bring it down by `1.26 per litre, the Delhi government, in its `33,436-crore Budget 2012-13 announced on Monday, gave the highest allocation to social sector spending. The huge significance to social sector spending in the Budget is apparently a step to win over sections disgruntled with the Congress as the party prepares for 2013’s Assembly polls.
Blood collection and transfusion services in India need urgent attention. (Editorial)
KOLKATA, 17 MAY: Manas Bangla ~ a network of 13 community-based organisations engaged in the distribution of medical and social support to approximately 10,000 homosexual men, transgenders and Hijras in
A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS
Drug maker Lupin Ltd is expected to soon launch its generic version of the anti-HIV drug, Combivir, in the United States. The move was likely to lend a significant upside to the Mumbai-based company’s bottom line in the forthcoming quarters, a source said. Lupin’s drug, a combination of lamividine and zidovudine tablets, is a generic version of Viiv Healthcare’s Combivir that is prescribed in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. “Lupin is likely to launch generic Combivir in the US as early as this month,” the source said. The 1968-founded company is waiting for the final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A total of 175 people have succumbed to the dreaded AIDS in Punjab during the year 2011-2012. These facts were revealed in the data supplied by the SMO Civil hospital. The disease is spreading at a fast pace in the border districts of Punjab as per the data. According to official annual data report prepared by the District Civil Surgeon Office, the total number of HIV positive cases registered in Amritsar during the period from 2011-12 were 1,243 from which 749 were males, 425 females and 69 children.
Every 17 seconds a person in the world is diagnosed with diabetes, it kills more people than HIV/AIDS and breast cancer combined, and an estimated 183 million people are unaware that they have diabetes.
Alarmed over the fact that there are more than 8,000 HIV positive people in the state, expecting mothers, particularly in rural pockets, will soon be offered an HIV test as part of the pre-natal care by
Punjab is among the states least affected by the problem of HIV/AIDS, while Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra are the worst-hit by the infection, the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) informed the
