Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …
WHO seeks increase in AIDS funds
The World Health Organisation has called for enhanced spending and a joint UN initiative to combat the threat of AIDS.
Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient
Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug -- Azidothymidine (AZT) -- of its side-effects.
Post-election squabbles widen rift at WHO
Hiroshi Nakajima's re-election as WHO's director general is being challenged on grounds of high-handedness.
New kit speeds HIV testing
Dipstick, an inexpensive and quick HIV test developed in the United States, is now being manufactured in India.
Return of the drug
Anti- and pro-lobbies lock their horns over the renewed use of the much maligned drug thalidomide
Light from an area of darkness
Strange but true. Health workers in Africa are successfully using antibiotics to slow down the spread of AIDS
Aids against AIDS
In a monumental decision, the American government approves the world's first large-scale testing of an AIDS vaccine
HIV fears
HIV -infected persons with low virus levels in their blood are less likely to pass the virus to partners
Mpox, AIDS & COVID-19 show challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma
Racial, sexual stigma around monkeypox spurred World Health Organization to rename the disease to mpox
New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected
While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks
Here’s where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus
HIV remains a major global public health challenge and the COVID-19 pandemic has added to it
HIV, TB, malaria prevalence will reduce with fewer inequalities in healthcare: WHO
A recent WHO report takes a look at 32 health indicators from 186 countries on HIV, TB and malaria, that kill 2 million annually
Ensuring home for those abandoned with HIV: Meet Noori Amma
A transgender woman diagnosed with HIV in 1987 has run a home for children living with the disease for nearly two decades now
Manipur: the bejewelled land shrouded in conflicts, resource scarcity
Sense of deprivation, lack of basic necessities and fear of falling out of government's favour perpetuate ethnic clashes
Funds for research on neglected diseases lowest in 2015
Over 1 billion people in 149 countries worldwide suffer from one or more neglected diseases
Developed nations should invest in healthcare of poorer countries: WHO
The Addis Ababa conference from July 13 to July 16 will also pave the way for the new set of Sustainable Development Goals
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
Indian AIDS research takes big step forward
With the expertise for HIV culture now available in the country, scientists will be better equipped to tackle AIDS.
'Squeamish' attitudes hurts AIDS efforts
Third World countries warned at Amsterdam recently that even if more effective vaccines and drugs become available, they may not be afford them.
Dignity at the end of life: a Malawian nursing study shows the impact of food
Food security emerged as a critical concern in the study, that has significant consequences for dying women’s dignity. There are …
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Father of South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’
Archbishop Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically …
People with past exposure to antiretroviral drugs thrice as likely to resist them: WHO
Minimising spread of HIV drug resistance is one of the important aspects of broader global response to antimicrobial resistance
SDG remains a distant dream in Sub-Saharan region
Africa's progress is crucial to the world achieving the 37 health-related indicators under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by …
38 years on, AIDS now a successful public health story
The convergence of multiple factors have ensured that almost four decades since the epidemic broke in the US there are now several ways of …