World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report

The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets

AIDS virus weakening

Claims Belgian study

International Day for Biological Diversity 2020: Why viruses are necessary

Possible solution to antimicrobial resistance, organ protection are some beneficial roles viruses play

Accidents cause maximum deaths among young population, says WHO

Road accidents and non-communicable diseases emerge as major killers according to the World Health Statistics 2017 report

Three breakthroughs on HIV this week; is cure around the corner?

Critical trial for early aggressive treatment of HIV+ babies set to begin in three months

Antibody reduces levels of HIV virus in body during clinical trial

Results considered a milestone in the search for more effective treatment of HIV

Tanzania

Access denied

Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis

Medicines Pool Swirls

Drug companies are slowly joining the UN effort to offer life-saving patented medicines to poor countries but the terms are sometimes restrictive

What price, gorilla meat

African bushmen stand the risk of contracting deadly viruses from bushmeat

Shelling out remedies

Marine organisms like bivalves hold cures for viral diseases

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

In Short

SAARC ministers adopt Delhi declaration on public health

Supra-national laboratory for TB and HIV/AIDS to come up in Kathmandu with India bearing the major cost of the project

HIV/AIDS: legal notice to health ministry for drug stock-outs

Activists say shortages of life-saving anti-retroviral drugs is compromising treatment of patients

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

Tobacco consumption rising among Indian TB patients: India TB 2020 report

Though notification of tuberculosis goes up, more than 0.5 million patients still missing  

Studies take cue from body’s defence mechanism, target HIV virus

One study recommends enhancing body’s immune response early and controllably, while the other suggests inducing uncontrolled mutation in …

HIV patients with social protection stay in jobs longer: ILO

New report calls for wider social protection net to include HIV patients

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

75% emerging infectious diseases zoonotic: UN Report

Document emphasises on importance of a ‘One-Health’ approach to manage and prevent zoonotic disease outbreaks and pandemics

HIV/AIDS Bill introduced in Rajya Sabha

Activists demand its early passage to check discrimination against affected people in education, healthcare, employment, travel and insurance

‘Making TB a notifiable disease will benefit patients’

Tuberculosis kills around 1,000 people each day in India and more than two million people are affected by the bacterial disease. This makes India …