"I spent three years in bed, giving company to death"
K Pradipkumar Singh was diagnosed with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2000. After suffering acute stigma for many years, Singh bounced …
Every year 2,000 people are transfused with HIV-infected blood
While there are stringent laws to regulate blood banks, such incidents are still happening
Public acceptance of gay relationships will help control spread of AIDS: SC on Section 377
Justice DY Chandrachud told lawyers that same sex couples living in denial with no access to medical care were more prone to contracting and …
NACO says HIV/AIDS under control, but numbers and experts disagree
While the data released today shows that new infections have reduced by 80%, an expert says medicine stock-outs are a common sight
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
Hepatitis C medication remains beyond reach
Price control may ensure patients complete their course of medication
AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
India reverses HIV epidemic, but reports high number of new infections
‘Making TB a notifiable disease will benefit patients’
Tuberculosis kills around 1,000 people each day in India and more than two million people are affected by the bacterial disease. This makes India …
HIV+ patients protest months-long drug shortage outside NACO office
The patients have demanded fixing irregular supply of everyday antiretroviral therapy medication
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
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
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
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