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Breakthrough against AIDS

Two techniques emerge to battle the HIV onslaught

KILLER DISEASE

In Short

Killing fields

AIDS threatens subsistence agriculture in Africa

Victimised?

WHO removes Ranbaxy's HIV drugs from crucial list

Being gay in India no longer a crime

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

TB research shows a good diet can cut infections by nearly 50%

The TB community has typically looked for biomedical solutions, or “silver bullets”, for a social pathology, and we are struggling to …

Measles: Zimbabwe launches awareness campaign to fight vaccine hesitancy

This follows a sharp uptick in caseload and deaths  

Not just those infected with HIV, India’s TB patients too don’t get proper nutrition

Only 62.1% of over 2.1 million notified cases in 2021 received at least one tranche of payment under the Nikshay Poshan Yojana

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 …

People with past exposure to antiretroviral drugs thrice as likely to resist them: WHO

Minimising spread of HIV drug resistance is one of the important aspects of broader global response to antimicrobial resistance

Dignity at the end of life: a Malawian nursing study shows the impact of food

Food security emerged as a critical concern in the study, that has significant consequences for dying women’s dignity. There are …

SDG remains a distant dream in Sub-Saharan region

Africa's progress is crucial to the world achieving the 37 health-related indicators under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by …

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

"I spent three years in bed, giving company to death"

K Pradipkumar Singh was diagnosed with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2000. After suffering acute stigma for many years, Singh bounced …

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

A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials

With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …

The battle is won, but who won the war?

Hiroshi Nakajima has been re-elected director of the World Health Organisation. But the road ahead promises to be bumpy for the controversial …

TB threat as acute as AIDS

Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.

Controversy follows Russian offer

A Russian-Uzbek offer to finance the Tehri dam has sparked fresh debate over the building of the massive structure in what many contend is an …

Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS

Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.

AIDS increases TB death risk

People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.