Bank's world

AIDS bill put on fast track

Non profits object to provisions in the changed draft

WHO highlights growing HIV drug resistance to dolutegravir, urges global action

WHO recommends routine surveillance of HIVDR to track prevalence & patterns of resistance, critical for shaping treatment guidelines and …

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Closing the gaps in coverage of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa will require, among other things, a massive investment in health systems in …

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,…

Native problems

From developed countries like USA to the developing African nations, indigenous communities constitute the most poor and neglected sections

WHO recommends faster and cheaper treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant TB

This is a critical step forward in tackling the MDR-TB public health crisis, says organisation

Neem gains honour as India's wonder tree

Known in ancient India as a tree with many wondrous properties, the neem tree is slowly drawing the attention of the country's scientific and …

Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

Preventing HIV-AIDS in women: How drug-releasing vaginal ring can help

Girls and women make up more than half of 38 million people living with HIV-AIDS as of 2019

HIV-associated tuberculosis on the rise: India TB Report

Pediatric and drug-resistant TB major concerns for India

AFRICA

The road ahead

AIDS threatens students

The virus within

It may never be possible to eliminate HIV from infected people

Punished for good

SOUTH AFRICA

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

If the earthquake wasn't enough

Survivors in Pakistan now risk unsafe blood transfusion

AIDS vaccine under trial

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

An engineer’s enduring struggle with Long Covid: ‘Various organs of my body were affected at random’

‘Our leaders chose not to prepare us for post-COVID-19 complications and continue to dismiss symptoms as anxiety’

Hypocrisy of the west

A legitimate tool to meet any public health crisis, rich countries, particularly the US, have resolutely opposed its deployment by developing …