Palliative care not available for majority in developing countries: WHO

Only 20 countries across the world have palliative care well integrated into their health-care systems, says report

Section 377 verdict: Social media erupts with anger but misses HIV link

Section 377 makes gay community vulnerable to HIV/AIDS by making it difficult for institutions to make information and services available to …

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

Asia should spend more to tackle AIDS, says UN

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

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

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