Activists demand access to affordable oral hepatitis drugs
Giving patents to foreign-made medicines will add to patients’ woes, they urge
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
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
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
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
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
Being gay in India no longer a crime
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court repeals Victorian Era law criminalising gay sex
New gene editing technology may not fully eliminate HIV, finds study
Scientists had been optimistic that CRISPR could annihilate the deadly disease
Humans susceptible to viral strains borne by chimpanzee
SIV strains mutate upon entering cells to overcome human-specific barriers to infection
Union Cabinet approves amendments to HIV/AIDS Bill
The amendments seek to protect those living with HIV/AIDS from discrimination
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
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
Health in news on June 8
Here's a round-up of today's news reports and debates in health
Global Fund withdrawal
AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections
Bring HIV/AIDS Bill in Parliament this winter session, demand activists
Bill has been shuttling between health and law ministries since 2006
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