New HIV cases down by 44% since 2010: Anupriya PatelNew annual HIV infections in India have decreased by 44 per cent since 2010, surpassing the global reduction rate of 39 per cent. Union Min...
25 Sep, 2024, 04.37 PM IST
The changing tides of time, how life with HIV is no longer a death sentenceLiving with HIV is as simple as taking a single pill a day to keep the virus undetectable in your blood.
30 Nov, 2022, 07.34 PM IST
Over 17 lakh people contracted HIV in India in last 10 yrs by unprotected sex: RTI replyAmong the states, Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest number of such cases of HIV transmission at 3,18,814 followed by Maharashtra at 2,84,...
24 Apr, 2022, 12.55 PM IST
How India can 'PrEP' better for fight against HIVIndia experienced a surge of HIV cases in the 1990s and early 2000s. According to the National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC), during 2001-...
01 Oct, 2021, 11.47 PM IST
Payment delays by NACO causing HIV drugs scarcityCipla, the sole producer of lopinavir/ritonavir, a combination HIV drug prescribed for paediatric patients, has stopped manufacturing it ov...
07 Mar, 2017, 12.41 AM IST
Cabinet approves amendment to HIV/AIDS billThe Union Cabinet approved amendments to 'The HIV and AIDS Bill, 2014' drafted to safeguard the rights of people living with HIV and affect...
05 Oct, 2016, 01.48 PM IST
How modern medicine is keeping HIV in checkThe stigma of HIV remains. But with modern medicines, Charlie Sheen and others infected by the virus can lead a normal life.
19 Nov, 2015, 09.18 AM IST
India recorded largest number of TB cases in 2014India, Indonesia and China had the largest number of cases at 23 per cent, 10 per cent and 10 per cent respectively of the global total in ...
29 Oct, 2015, 10.42 AM IST
Anti-AIDS medicine project likely to take off at SonagachiUnder the project PrEP, regular medicine would be given to an HIV-negative sex worker engaged in sex with an HIV-positive person.
01 Jan, 2015, 02.11 PM IST
Four states in south India make up 50% of HIV casesTamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka account for 3.6 lakh HIV cases, about 50% of the patients in the country.
01 Dec, 2014, 11.35 AM IST
- HIV/AIDS testing services to be set up at major sea ports
Government plans to set up counselling and testing services for HIV/AIDS at major sea ports for the prevention and management of the diseas...
22 Mar, 2013, 08.28 PM IST
- TB drops globally, wreaks havoc in India
The number of people who fell ill with tuberculosis globally dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, the disease still wreaked havoc in India
13 Oct, 2011, 12.45 PM IST
- PM wants NREGS facility extended to HIV+ people
On Monday, Dr Manmohan Singh officially called for linking the country's HIV programmes and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gu...
05 Jul, 2011, 04.50 AM IST
- New test identifies infants’ HIV status early
A simple blood test is now helping India identify the status of children born to HIV positive mothers as early as six weeks after their bir...
19 Jul, 2010, 12.16 PM IST
- India to develop microbicides at earliest: Ramadoss
India on Sunday said developing microbicides was on the top of its priority list and they will be developed in the earliest possible time t...
24 Feb, 2008, 09.27 PM IST
- HIV Patients are spared from Dementia
HIV patients are said to live a better life compared to their US counterparts.
25 Jan, 2008, 07.01 PM IST
- Govt to reduce mother to child HIV transmission by 2011
With a whopping number of over 23,000 children getting HIV from their mothers every year, the government has planned several steps to drast...
02 Aug, 2007, 11.40 PM IST