AIDS bill put on fast track

Non profits object to provisions in the changed draft

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

HIV-associated tuberculosis on the rise: India TB Report

Pediatric and drug-resistant TB major concerns for India

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 …

Bihar faces shortage of HIV drug

Activists blame it on poor coordination between NACO and state; say 20,000 patients at risk

Thirst for profits rises as disease spreads

Even as AIDS spreads throughout the world, Australians are determined to get their share of the profits from the use of a shrub that halts …

AFRICA

The road ahead

AIDS threatens students

The virus within

It may never be possible to eliminate HIV from infected people

Punished for good

Tropical pill

Medicines are for the rich, not for fighting tropical diseases afflicting millions in developing nations. Pharmaceutical companies seem to have …

SOUTH AFRICA

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

Blow to anti-AIDS campaign as condom turns taboo subject

The paanwallah-doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan will show a village council member warning …

AIDS transmitted through artificial insemination

Subha (not her real name), 35, had been married for over 10 years, but was still childless. Doctors attributed this condition to her husband's …

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  

HIV bill at risk

Health ministry keeps draft bill under wraps. Activists fear provision of free treatment is diluted

In AID(S) of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government's health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Baywatch

Goa's 'army' fights drugs, AIDS, nudism and the various other ills of tourism that threaten to snuff out the local traditional lifestyle

The natco-pfizer test

Natco’s demand for a voluntary licence from Pfizer will establish how well the compulsory licence process works in India

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 …