Is HIV harmless?
A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Crying out for aid
With one of the highest growth rate of AIDS cases in the world, India sees a boom in 'opportunistic infections' baffling doctors
Two hoots to AIDS
A controversial marrow transplant operation in the US, a faulty gene in a dormant strain of the HIV isolated in Australia, the Zinc Finger …
Hope for the living
Documentary film maker, Doordarshan newscaster, theatre artist and radio broadcaster, Ramesh Venkataraman's latest docu-fiction video, Zindagi …
AIDS messages: tell-all, or nothing?
What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the …
Azad calls for support from ministries, civil society to fight HIV
Civil society calls the move an eyewash; NACO seeks more budgetary allocations by ministries and signing of MoUs before March next year
Rural South Africa has a high burden of undiagnosed non-communicable diseases: Study
A health-screening programme in KwaZulu-Natal showed that most seniors, especially women were living with a chronic health condition
Developed, urbanised districts have high HIV prevalence: Study
The research finds that there’s high prevalence of HIV in 63 districts in south and north-east regions of the country
Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …
WHO seeks increase in AIDS funds
The World Health Organisation has called for enhanced spending and a joint UN initiative to combat the threat of AIDS.
Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient
Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug -- Azidothymidine (AZT) -- of its side-effects.
Post-election squabbles widen rift at WHO
Hiroshi Nakajima's re-election as WHO's director general is being challenged on grounds of high-handedness.
New kit speeds HIV testing
Dipstick, an inexpensive and quick HIV test developed in the United States, is now being manufactured in India.
Return of the drug
Anti- and pro-lobbies lock their horns over the renewed use of the much maligned drug thalidomide
Light from an area of darkness
Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS
Aids against AIDS
In a monumental decision, the American government approves the world's first large-scale testing of an AIDS vaccine
HIV fears
HIV -infected persons with low virus levels in their blood are less likely to pass the virus to partners
Mpox, AIDS & COVID-19 show challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma
Racial, sexual stigma around monkeypox spurred World Health Organization to rename the disease to mpox
New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected
While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks
HIV, TB, malaria prevalence will reduce with fewer inequalities in healthcare: WHO
A recent WHO report takes a look at 32 health indicators from 186 countries on HIV, TB and malaria, that kill 2 million annually
Ensuring home for those abandoned with HIV: Meet Noori Amma
A transgender woman diagnosed with HIV in 1987 has run a home for children living with the disease for nearly two decades now
Here’s where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus
HIV remains a major global public health challenge and the COVID-19 pandemic has added to it
Manipur: the bejewelled land shrouded in conflicts, resource scarcity
Sense of deprivation, lack of basic necessities and fear of falling out of government's favour perpetuate ethnic clashes
Funds for research on neglected diseases lowest in 2015
Over 1 billion people in 149 countries worldwide suffer from one or more neglected diseases
Developed nations should invest in healthcare of poorer countries: WHO
The Addis Ababa conference from July 13 to July 16 will also pave the way for the new set of Sustainable Development Goals