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
Global Fund withdrawal
New gene editing technology may not fully eliminate HIV, finds study
Scientists had been optimistic that CRISPR could annihilate the deadly disease
Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists
Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006
MDG final report highlights the success of strategic intervention
Human society has achieved several milestones on all eight goals: Report
World AIDS Day: Communities can lead way to ending public health threat, says UNAIDS
Suggests integrating, elevating and engaging communities at all stages of HIV-related decision-making
AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic
In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance
What caused HIV/AIDS to explode?
Social forces drive viral pandemics, say scientists
World risks spending $250 billion on simply monitoring UN development goals: report
The number should be reduced from the current 169 targets
New cure raises hopes for MDR-TB patients
PaMZ regimen showed better results among HIV-infected patients
AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections
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
A patent triumph of public interest
New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights
Coffins for the EU Delegation in Delhi
Health activists protest against the EU-India investment treaty under negotiation now
Antiretroviral therapy coverage for HIV in low- & middle-income countries to grow 25% by 2025, says WHO
Presently, only half the children living with HIV receive ART; may fall short of UNAIDS treatment coverage target for 2025