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

Bloodless ban

Health activists demand removal of ban on unbanked direct blood transfusion

HIV patients with social protection stay in jobs longer: ILO

New report calls for wider social protection net to include HIV patients

Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Defective blood-test kits in West Bengal

Monkey genome provides insight into humans

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HIV more deadly compared to similar viruses

What makes HIV lethal

Medicinal tree survives tissue culture process

Tissue culture technique for medicinal tree succeeds

Direct cash transfers reduce risk of exposure to HIV, says UNDP report

Cash payments help tackle poverty and improve access to education and healthcare

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

Kala-azar spreads to Gujarat, MP

Integrate mpox with HIV, STI prevention & control programmes: WHO

New HIV guidelines on viral suppression unveiled at international AIDS conference

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

National Family Health Survey out

The Gates accounts

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Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health