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
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
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
New cure raises hopes for MDR-TB patients
PaMZ regimen showed better results among HIV-infected patients
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
AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections
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
In a first, immunotherapy that pulls HIV virus out of hiding to kill it
Latest findings offer relief to HIV-positive patients taking medicines daily
HIV+ patients protest months-long drug shortage outside NACO office
The patients have demanded fixing irregular supply of everyday antiretroviral therapy medication
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
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
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 …
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