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

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

The natco-pfizer test

Natco’s demand for a voluntary licence from Pfizer will establish how well the compulsory licence process works in India

Global Fund withdrawal

Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists

Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006

Centre to bear most of the expenses on AIDS control programme

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad announces major steps for improved AIDS treatment to enhance longevity and productivity of patients

What caused HIV/AIDS to explode?

Social forces drive viral pandemics, say scientists

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

New cure raises hopes for MDR-TB patients

PaMZ regimen showed better results among HIV-infected 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

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

Coffins for the EU Delegation in Delhi

Health activists protest against the EU-India investment treaty under negotiation now

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

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

Hepatitis afflicts many HIV/AIDS patients, but there is no policy for them

Health ministry and AIDS control body keep shifting responsibility; no statistics available on patients with co-infection

MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention

Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report

AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS

India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections 

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

World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report

The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets

Novartis loses patent appeal in landmark suit

Supreme Court upholds amended law that bars patents for insignificant improvements to an existing drug—in this case anti-cancer drug …

AIDS: how far the world has come and how far it needs to go to get to zero

Globally, the health community is moving to a point where there could be zero new HIV infections or deaths. But it has been a long road

New gene editing technology may not fully eliminate HIV, finds study

Scientists had been optimistic that CRISPR could annihilate the deadly disease

WHO recommends faster and cheaper treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant TB

This is a critical step forward in tackling the MDR-TB public health crisis, says organisation

South Africa's remarkable journey out of the dark decade of AIDS denialism

Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around

Why Modi's razzmatazz diplomacy isn't serving African interests

Missing from Modi’s foreign trips is a focus on issues most pressing for Africa’s people