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.

Access denied

Doctors are withholding HIV therapy from some patients fearing their irresponsibility could harm others

A mutating monster

Some strains of the AIDS-causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available

Book review: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine

Indian systems of medicine could receive a big boost if they could yield a cure for just one major disease. And, theoretically, there can be a …

HIV+ patients protest months-long drug shortage outside NACO office

The patients have demanded fixing irregular supply of everyday antiretroviral therapy medication   

As told to Parliament: 75% cropland treated with chemical fertilisers

All that was discussed in the House through the day

New gene editing technology may not fully eliminate HIV, finds study

Scientists had been optimistic that CRISPR could annihilate the deadly disease

Prevention is cheaper than cure

SOUTH AFRICA

Secret revealed

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

Exporting expertise

AIDS set to strike with a vengeance

Blissfully unaware India and China to be hardest hit

Missing link

A newly discovered HIV-like virus in monkeys provides clues about the origin of AIDS in humans

Ravaged future

Fudged AIDS of USA

AIDS ain't so big

Number of new infections dips in 2004, but is it false relief?

Look out

Two viruses from the infamous retrovirus family found

Bloggers rally to free medical workers in Libya

AIDS awareness campaign in West Bengal embarrasses many

Drug curdling problem solved

10 good news we got in 2018

As this year nears its end, here’s a look at stories by Down To Earth that brought some relief to an otherwise climate change-ravaged period