Health in news on May 10

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

Why Modi's razzmatazz diplomacy isn't serving African interests

Missing from Modi’s foreign trips is a focus on issues most pressing for Africa’s people

Look back at the decade: Generic drugs

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

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BRAZIL

Growing killer

As the menace of AIDS spreads in India, there is an interest in traditional cures

AIDS project

Blood row

HIV positive haemophiliacs sue US pharma giants

NEWS SNIPPETS

In Court

Blame's on chimps

Sustainable peatland management can prevent future pandemics: Study

Peatlands harbour a variety of disease-spreading hosts; flora and fauna in them are also being harvested, increasing contact with humans

Sustainable Development Goals: A paradigm shift in United Nations' fund flow

A report cites the changing funding patterns of the UN and its reliance on corporate partners

Terminated abruptly

Toeing the US' line appears to be an essential prerequisite for receiving aid from it. The 'Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium' for aids …

HIV treatment centres run short of CD4 kits

AIDS control organisation assures protesting activists that kits needed for initiating anti-retroviral treatment will be made available in a day

Most comprehensive study on HIV, malaria, TB shows major progress in the millennium

Funding and policy have had real impact in combating the diseases, although challenges remain

SOUTH AFRICA

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

HIV's ability to cause AIDS weakening, says new research

The virus might gradually become almost harmless, say virologists

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UNITED NATIONS

A palliative gesture

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Health ministry rubbishes AIDS headcount

Fewer men aware of HIV/AIDS in most states: NFHS-5

Significant decline in proportion of women aware of HIV / AIDS in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala and Tripura