Access denied

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

Unconventional approach to AIDS control

Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue-collar workers and …

Ridding Delhi's brothels of HIV

An organisation of sex workers struggles to combat the spread of AIDS in Delhi's red-light areas.

Playing with life

An ayurvedic researcher's forays against the dreaded AIDS virus unmasks a tale of greed and un-Hippocratian behaviour

Puritanism will not cure AIDS

Union health minister Sushma Swaraj is brandishing a new poultice to wrap around the AIDS menace. It is a purifying prescription called '…

Positive rights

RBI frames HIV/AIDS workplace policy, experts want national law

Home is where AIDS care is in Uganda

Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes

Immune virus

HIV bringsscience down on its knees

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 …

Positive partnership

Parenting new-age untouchables

Organising to check AIDS

Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.

Did the polio vaccine start AIDS?

The origin of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has generated considerable interest and controversy amongst scientists the world over. Flaming …

Dharna to defecation: The Indian art of protest

Through the centuries, Indians have evolved several novel ways to protest injustice. Many are still practised in India and some have even been …

Anti-AIDS treatment aims at tolerating virus

Ayurveda practitioners in Kerala are experimenting with a novel approach to tackling AIDS: herbal medicines that increase the patient's immunity …

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 …

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

Dying in stages

Thirty million HIV-infected people in the world live in developing nations. With no cures in sight, all they can do is wait for death. And lack …

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

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

Vaccine Eloquent

Universal vaccination became part of government policy in 1978. A quarter of a century since, progress has been fitful. In some parts of the …

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights