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

AIDS virus weakening

Claims Belgian study

Asia should spend more to tackle AIDS, says UN

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

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-…

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

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

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 …

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

Defective blood-test kits in West Bengal

Monkey genome provides insight into humans

Bytes

HIV positive people in Sri Lanka to now get health coverage

Four insurance firms will bear HIV-related medical costs; move aimed at increasing access to treatment

HIV more deadly compared to similar viruses

What makes HIV lethal

Hepatitis afflicts many HIV/AIDS patients, but there is no policy for them

Health ministry and AIDS control body keep shifting responsibility; no statistics available on patients with co-infection

Medicinal tree survives tissue culture process

Tissue culture technique for medicinal tree succeeds