India tops nations burdened by TB

Absence of new drugs and vaccines, funds shortage affecting treatment and control

Current monkeypox symptoms are different from previous outbreaks, finds study

Rectal pain, penile swelling new complaints; Only a quarter of patients had known contact with a confirmed case  

HIV positive people in Sri Lanka to now get health coverage

Four insurance firms will bear HIV-related medical costs; move aimed at increasing access to treatment

Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs

Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge   

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

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

Legal framework can strengthen HIV response: UNDP administrator

Discriminatory policies hamper access to HIV services

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

World Health Statistics 2015: some achievements, many concerns

Down To Earth highlights the world’s performance on health-related development goals, where our successes lie and where efforts are still a …

Drug-resistant TB now epidemic among HIV+ people in Mumbai

Transmission from one person to another, not inadequate treatment, is major cause for spread of disease, says study investigator

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

New HIV guidelines on viral suppression unveiled at international AIDS conference

Focus on nutrition of children with HIV: child rights commission

National AIDS Control Programme urged to move beyond medicine-centric approach

Preventing HIV-AIDS in women: How drug-releasing vaginal ring can help

Girls and women make up more than half of 38 million people living with HIV-AIDS as of 2019

UN develops modules to provide safe work environment to health workers

Experts say high rate of infectious viral disease, back injuries, sharps injuries reported among health workers across the world and that it is …

UN calls for protection of rights of women, indigenous peoples

The 69th session of the UN General Assembly will see the participation of world leaders on crucial global issues

Gay sex illegal; Section 377 a valid provision, says Supreme Court

Section 377 which terms same gender sexual contact a criminal offence is often used to harass the gay community—in the process making them …

The natco-pfizer test

Natco’s demand for a voluntary licence from Pfizer will establish how well the compulsory licence process works in India

Ethics before profits: What it will take to have global access to COVID-19 vaccine

Experts worry that any COVID-19 vaccine is likely to have a high price tag and, as a result, be unequally distributed 

HIV treatment centres run short of CD4 kits

AIDS control organisation assures protesting activists that kits needed for initiating anti-retroviral treatment will be made available in a day

Most comprehensive study on HIV, malaria, TB shows major progress in the millennium

Funding and policy have had real impact in combating the diseases, although challenges remain

Government withdraws NPPA’s power to fix prices of non-essential medicines

Prices of cardiac, diabetes, HIV/AIDS drugs likely to be affected

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