World AIDS Day 2024: AIDS and HIV are often confused as the same disease. Debunking the popular mythWorld AIDS Day 2024: Thanks to advancements in treatment, HIV is no longer a death sentence. By adhering to antiretroviral therapy, people ...
01 Dec, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
HIV treatment: Can cancer medicine cure HIV patients? Here's what researchers, doctors have foundScientists at a Melbourne research institute in Australia have found that a medicine used to treat blood cancer can kill HIV cells. Know in...
04 Sep, 2023, 05.23 PM IST
This is how doctors cured a German HIV-positive patient, check hereIn Germany, a man became the third person to be completely cured of the HIV virus after receiving a stem cell transplant, also known as a b...
24 Feb, 2023, 07.04 PM IST
Covid boosters leading to positive HIV test? Experts debunk claim"I don't see why would a booster lead to a positive HIV test. We should not be carried away by misinformation and information that are not ...
21 Feb, 2022, 09.58 AM IST
Scientists identify second HIV patient whose body likely rid itself of virusThe researchers noted that some people, known as elite controllers, have immune systems that are able to suppress HIV without the need for ...
16 Nov, 2021, 04.07 PM IST
Vaccine against HIV infection may soon be a realityScientists have developed a new approach to help the immune system actively fight the virus in the body.
21 Nov, 2016, 01.40 PM IST
Combined HIV, Hepatitis C vaccination in the offingScientists have for the first time found that it is possible to generate simultaneous immune response against Hepatitis C virus and HIV, ra...
13 Apr, 2016, 05.02 PM IST
World AIDS Day: Major signs and early symptoms of HIV infectionThe early signs of HIV may show after a month or may appear after 10 years. Here are some of the major signs experienced by infected patien...
01 Dec, 2015, 03.43 PM IST
New breakthrough may lead to HIV relapse cureScientists are now better able to predict how quickly the HIV virus will return after individuals stop treatment.
11 Oct, 2015, 04.20 PM IST
New antibody may fight HIV virus more effectivelyProteins called broadly neutralising antibodies (bNAbs) are a promising key to the prevention of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AI...
13 Sep, 2015, 12.44 PM IST
'Tweezer' compound can help fight HIVA compound shaped like tweezer can block HIV & break up proteins in semen that boost infection. It may lead to the development of a safe va...
18 Aug, 2015, 06.54 PM IST
How to stop common cold, HIV virus in their tracks foundScientists have cracked the code used by a major group of viruses to spread infections such as the common cold, HIV, hepatitis C and polio ...
09 Feb, 2015, 03.07 PM IST
Proteins that inhibit HIV, Ebola release identifiedResearchers have found that the same protein possesses a unique ability to block the release of HIV-1 and Ebola virus.
26 Aug, 2014, 01.59 PM IST
New therapy may offer HIV cureScientists used radioimmunotherapy to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus -infected cells in the blood samples of patients treat...
04 Dec, 2013, 01.25 PM IST
Research suggests HIV 'invisibility cloak' may lead to new AIDS treatmentThe innate immune system is the body's first line of defence against infection and incorporates an alarm system present in all cells of the...
07 Nov, 2013, 02.18 PM IST
- Hazare fast: 'Fear of HIV through needle unfounded'
Ahead of Anna Hazare's fast, the AIDS Society of India has dubbed as "misinformation campaign" the threat to inject the Gandhian and his su...
25 Dec, 2011, 09.52 AM IST
- Hi-tech lab in Gurgaon to design vaccine for HIV
Gurgaon will now be home to the country’s first state-ofthe-art laboratory that will exclusively work to design an effective vaccine agains...
03 Mar, 2011, 12.21 PM IST