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Test, Protect, Inform: What HIV Can Teach Us About COVID-19
From being a killer in the shadows, to having its own international day and UN programme, HIV's emergence into a global reality can offer many lessons in how to respond to COVID-19, the head of the International Aids Society told AFP Thursday.
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Bengal Tops In Curbing Parent To Child HIV Transmission: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal has emerged as the No. 1 state in the country in "Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS" programme for 2017-18, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today, the World AIDS Day.
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How Mother To Baby Transmission Of HIV Can Be Prevented In India
New Delhi: Every year, 6,500 children are born with HIV in India, according to various estimates. One-third of them die before their first birthday and half of them do not get to see their second. National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO’s programme, launched 14 years ago, provides utmost care to the women during pregnancy and childbirth. At BJ...
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India's health Budget May Rise After Minister Warns Of Funding Crunch
In his letter, health minister wrote that he needed an extra $589 million to implement a programme to screen patients for cancer and other illnesses, while the HIV/AIDS treatment programme required an infusion of $74 million.
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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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HIV Infections Level Off At Worrying 2.5 Million A Year: Study
Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said today.
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Injecting Drug Users Main Reason For Spread Of HIV In North-East: JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday said injecting drug users continue to be the prime factor for the spread of HIV-AIDS in north-eastern region even as the government has increased medical facilities for testing and treatment of people living with the illness.
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ART Can Help HIV Positive Person Live Normal Lifespan: Expert
The modern anti-retoviral therapy (ART) has changed the course of treatment of HIV disease as the person diagnosed with the disease at an early age can live a normal lifespan, if the therapy is started promptly, a medical expert claimed today.
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WHO Records Highest-Ever Number of New HIV Cases in Its European Region
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that in 2014 it had recorded the highest number of new HIV cases in its European Region, which also includes Central Asia, since the start of reporting in the 1980s.
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How a Condom Shortage is Affecting India
Sex worker Shaalu is using fewer condoms when she meets her clients in New Delhi - not out of choice, but because a funding crunch and procurement delays in the state-run HIV/AIDS programme have disrupted supplies of free condoms.
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India Risks Backsliding on Success Against HIV, Says United Nations Envoy
New HIV infections in India could rise for the first time in more than a decade because states are mismanaging a prevention programme by delaying payments to health workers, the United Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific said.
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Computer 'Redesigned' Antibodies to Help Fight HIV
Researchers used the Rosetta computer programme to "redesign" a "parent" antibody that was a strong "neutraliser" of HIV in laboratory tests.
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India Set to Run Out of Critical Free Drug for HIV/AIDS Programme
India could run out of a critical medicine in its free HIV/AIDS drugs programme in three weeks due to bureaucratic bungling, a senior government official said, leaving more than 150,000 sufferers without life-saving drugs for about a month.
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Activists Praise India's AIDS Programme, But Challenges Remain
The recently concluded 20th International AIDS Conference had an important takeaway for India's - the momentum of the fight against HIV cannot be dropped.
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South Africa to Host 2016 AIDS Conference
South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...
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Test, Protect, Inform: What HIV Can Teach Us About COVID-19
From being a killer in the shadows, to having its own international day and UN programme, HIV's emergence into a global reality can offer many lessons in how to respond to COVID-19, the head of the International Aids Society told AFP Thursday.
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Bengal Tops In Curbing Parent To Child HIV Transmission: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal has emerged as the No. 1 state in the country in "Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS" programme for 2017-18, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today, the World AIDS Day.
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How Mother To Baby Transmission Of HIV Can Be Prevented In India
New Delhi: Every year, 6,500 children are born with HIV in India, according to various estimates. One-third of them die before their first birthday and half of them do not get to see their second. National AIDS Control Organisation or NACO’s programme, launched 14 years ago, provides utmost care to the women during pregnancy and childbirth. At BJ...
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India's health Budget May Rise After Minister Warns Of Funding Crunch
In his letter, health minister wrote that he needed an extra $589 million to implement a programme to screen patients for cancer and other illnesses, while the HIV/AIDS treatment programme required an infusion of $74 million.
-
Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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HIV Infections Level Off At Worrying 2.5 Million A Year: Study
Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and virus-carriers live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said today.
-
Injecting Drug Users Main Reason For Spread Of HIV In North-East: JP Nadda
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday said injecting drug users continue to be the prime factor for the spread of HIV-AIDS in north-eastern region even as the government has increased medical facilities for testing and treatment of people living with the illness.
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ART Can Help HIV Positive Person Live Normal Lifespan: Expert
The modern anti-retoviral therapy (ART) has changed the course of treatment of HIV disease as the person diagnosed with the disease at an early age can live a normal lifespan, if the therapy is started promptly, a medical expert claimed today.
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WHO Records Highest-Ever Number of New HIV Cases in Its European Region
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that in 2014 it had recorded the highest number of new HIV cases in its European Region, which also includes Central Asia, since the start of reporting in the 1980s.
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How a Condom Shortage is Affecting India
Sex worker Shaalu is using fewer condoms when she meets her clients in New Delhi - not out of choice, but because a funding crunch and procurement delays in the state-run HIV/AIDS programme have disrupted supplies of free condoms.
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India Risks Backsliding on Success Against HIV, Says United Nations Envoy
New HIV infections in India could rise for the first time in more than a decade because states are mismanaging a prevention programme by delaying payments to health workers, the United Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific said.
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Computer 'Redesigned' Antibodies to Help Fight HIV
Researchers used the Rosetta computer programme to "redesign" a "parent" antibody that was a strong "neutraliser" of HIV in laboratory tests.
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India Set to Run Out of Critical Free Drug for HIV/AIDS Programme
India could run out of a critical medicine in its free HIV/AIDS drugs programme in three weeks due to bureaucratic bungling, a senior government official said, leaving more than 150,000 sufferers without life-saving drugs for about a month.
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Activists Praise India's AIDS Programme, But Challenges Remain
The recently concluded 20th International AIDS Conference had an important takeaway for India's - the momentum of the fight against HIV cannot be dropped.
-
South Africa to Host 2016 AIDS Conference
South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in M...
