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

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

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

Bad faith?

The state of regulation

Techno tracks

Emerging scenarios, new dilemmas

No Need

Requirement doesn't drive immunisation

Off Beat

Tinkering, not marking the great leap

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  

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

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 …

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 …

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 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