Union Cabinet approves amendments to HIV/AIDS Bill

The amendments seek to protect those living with HIV/AIDS from discrimination

Health in news on June 8

Here's a round-up of today's news reports and debates in health

HIV-associated tuberculosis on the rise: India TB Report

Pediatric and drug-resistant TB major concerns for India

Look back at the decade: Generic drugs

Fifteen years after it rose and went limp, the biotech sector saw a bull run of sorts

In a first, immunotherapy that pulls HIV virus out of hiding to kill it

Latest findings offer relief to HIV-positive patients taking medicines daily

Being gay in India no longer a crime

Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court repeals Victorian Era law criminalising gay sex

Developed, urbanised districts have high HIV prevalence: Study

The research finds that there’s high prevalence of HIV in 63 districts in south and north-east regions of the country

Ensuring home for those abandoned with HIV: Meet Noori Amma

A transgender woman diagnosed with HIV in 1987 has run a home for children living with the disease for nearly two decades now

Manipur: the bejewelled land shrouded in conflicts, resource scarcity

Sense of deprivation, lack of basic necessities and fear of falling out of government's favour perpetuate ethnic clashes

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Father of South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’

Archbishop Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically …

38 years on, AIDS now a successful public health story

The convergence of multiple factors have ensured that almost four decades since the epidemic broke in the US there are now several ways of …

NITI Aayog’s Health Index: Kerala on top; Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh among worst performers

However, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan are among the states that have shown progress in overall health outcomes

Will gene editing provide succour to HIV patients?

There are plenty of problems with the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) used to treat HIV/AIDS patients

Three decades on, stigma still stymies HIV prevention and treatment

Unless stigma is addressed, the aim of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 is unlikely to become a reality

Every year 2,000 people are transfused with HIV-infected blood

While there are stringent laws to regulate blood banks, such incidents are still happening

Health interventions can help reduce burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The challenges to NTD elimination in Africa are multifaceted, but political commitments and the financial support is enabling the continent to …

South Africa faces highest risk of deaths from non-communicable diseases

South Africans are more likely to die from NCDs even though the country is threatened by a prolific HIV epidemic 

Gut bacteria are a reservoir of drug resistance genes: study

Friendly gut bacteria from individuals who had not consumed antibiotics for past 6 months harbored resistance against multiple antimicrobials,…

NACO says HIV/AIDS under control, but numbers and experts disagree

While the data released today shows that new infections have reduced by 80%, an expert says medicine stock-outs are a common sight

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to COVID-19 could have lethal consequences

We are putting in place measures that will lead to malnutrition and starvation for millions of people, and for these horrors, children and …

Health in news on May 10

Sugar industry sees red over FSSAI's draft regulations, HC slams government hospital for discrimination of HIV patient

New vaccine could end three-decade-long wait for an effective prevention of HIV

Clinical trial of the vaccine has kicked off in South Africa where 1,000 people are infected with HIV every day

Highlights of 2016 International AIDS Conference in South Africa

South Africa has the highest infection rate in the world with about seven million affected

Designer babies can lead to growth of homogenous individuals

A Chinese researcher has claimed that he helped make world’s first genetically edited babies but the development may come at a heavy cost

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks