Science and Technology - Briefs

Patent claim on hepatitis C drug questioned in many countries

With hepatitis C killing at least 700,000 people every year, civil society has strengthened efforts to make the drug accessible

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

A demon slumbers

Perhaps the largest potential AIDS factory in the world, India remains blissfully apathetic to a scourge that could rip its social fabric apart

Catching viruses

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …

Blame it on the foreign hand

The government's policy of screening long-staying foreigners for AIDS is an attempt to find a scapegoat for a national health problem

A question of ethics

What does a doctor do when confronted with an hiv -positive case

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

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

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 …