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

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

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

Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006

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

Over half the HIV infected people globally do not know their positive status: UN

Gap Report calls for scaling up efforts to end the disease by 2030

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

Poor countries increase domestic funding for AIDS control programmes

Eighty-one countries increased their domestic investment for AIDS by over 50 per cent between 2006 and 2011

Dosage of HIV drug may be too low for African-Americans: study

Half of African-Americans have high levels of a protein that helps remove HIV drug maraviroc from the body

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

HIV's ability to cause AIDS weakening, says new research

The virus might gradually become almost harmless, say virologists

HIV can be edited out of genome

Unlike currently available drugs, a new technology provides tool to target dormant HIV in the body

Poor access to healthcare hits HIV eradication goal

UNICEF says its global goal of reducing new HIV infections in children by 90 per cent between 2009 and 2015 is still out of reach

What caused HIV/AIDS to explode?

Social forces drive viral pandemics, say scientists

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 …

Antibody reduces levels of HIV virus in body during clinical trial

Results considered a milestone in the search for more effective treatment of HIV

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

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 …

Hepatitis C medication remains beyond reach

Price control may ensure patients complete their course of medication

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

HIV positive people in Sri Lanka to now get health coverage

Four insurance firms will bear HIV-related medical costs; move aimed at increasing access to treatment

Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs

Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge