Aids
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NACO launches mobile app for HIV awareness
India | Sep 26, 2015, 12:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: In an effort to enhance the information and treatment of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), National Aids Control Organization (NACO) has launched a mobile app called ‘HELP' for AIDS awareness and prevention. It's the
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India visit inspired Paris Hilton to help orphans
Hollywood | Aug 08, 2015, 08:11 AM ISTLos Angeles: Socialite Paris Hilton has made it her goal to help orphans all over the world after a trip to an orphanage in India changed her life."There's this one orphanage in India where all
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How APJ Abdul Kalam saved HIV affected siblings
India | Jul 29, 2015, 01:45 PM ISTKendrapara (Odisha): While nation mourns the death of the "peoples' president", an orphaned girl from a far flung village of Odisha remembers the gesture of A P J Abdul Kalam towards her HIV positive siblings
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AIDS epidemic can end by 2030: UNAIDS
World | Jul 15, 2015, 12:04 AM ISTGeneva: The AIDS epidemic can end by 2030, the UN said today, highlighting the global response that has averted 30 million new HIV infections worldwide in the last 15 years including in India, which ranks
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North Korea Claims It Has Found Cure For MERS, Ebola, SARS And AIDS
World | Jun 23, 2015, 06:43 PM ISTSeoul, South Korea (AP): North Korea says it has succeeded where the greatest minds in science have failed.The authoritarian, impoverished nation better known for pursuing a nuclear program despite global criticism announced Friday it has
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Story of a man living 4 years of happy married life with HIV+ wife
India | May 25, 2015, 01:20 PM ISTJalandhar: 23rd May might be a common day for all of us but for Rajat and Geet, it carries an altogether different meaning. It was a memorable day for both of them. Four years back,
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India to host 5th meeting of SAARC Health Ministers today
India | Apr 08, 2015, 09:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: India is all set to host the fifth meeting of Health Ministers belonging to SAARC countries today to deliberate on key issues, including HIV/AIDS, prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and to strengthen
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HIV spreads like 'computer worms'
India | Apr 03, 2015, 06:39 PM ISTA recent study has revealed that HIV spreads throughout the body in a way similar to some computer worm hence early treatment may be the key to treat AIDS.The spread of HIV through the body
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Cipla to launch generic Hepatitis C drug 'Hepcvir' in India
Mar 25, 2015, 04:27 PM ISTDrug major Cipla today announced the launch of generic drug Sofosbuvir for treating chronic Hepatitis C under the brand name 'Hepcvir', in India."Following the non-exclusive licensing agreement signed with Gilead Sciences in September last year
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Anti-herpes drug may help treat HIV: Study
World | Mar 15, 2015, 04:35 PM ISTWashington: A common herpes drug can reduce the levels of HIV infection, a new study has found.The finding rebuts earlier scientific assumptions that Valacyclovir (Valtrex) required the presence of the other infection to benefit patients
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IIT graduate murders family fearing AIDS infection, later tests negative
India | Mar 13, 2015, 11:19 AM ISTNew Delhi: A 39-year old IITian from Betul in Madhya Pradesh killed his wife and kids ablaze in a car fearing of being infected by HIV virus.He also made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide
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Her baby was crying for milk, but she didn't feed him!
Life | Feb 19, 2015, 04:16 PM ISTA mother-child bond is sealed with first breast-feed, but what if someone chooses to deny it?Women are blessed to be born with 'maternal instinct', a thing which no other thing could ever replace in someone's'
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HC notice to centre, Delhi government on inmates' condition
India | Feb 11, 2015, 02:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments on the deplorable conditions of undertrial prisoners, including women, in Tihar Jail here.A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini
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Social media and behavioural psychology can help fight AIDS
Dec 30, 2014, 07:51 AM ISTNew Delhi: Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be a valuable tool in the fight against HIV, a new study has found.Researchers demonstrated social media can prompt high-risk populations to request at-home testing
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NGO intervenes after Himachal school bars HIV+ woman from cooking
India | Dec 19, 2014, 01:53 PM ISTShimla: An HIV positive woman employed as a cook in a government school in Himachal's Kangra district was barred from cooking until an NGO persuaded the authorities to take her back."For three days I was
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More than 70 percent of HIV-AIDS patients not diagnosed
India | Dec 16, 2014, 11:48 AM ISTKolkata: More than 70 percent of people suffering from HIV-AIDS are not diagnosed and are not aware that they are suffering from the dreaded disease. I S Gilada, president of AIDS society of India, said
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Over 900 new HIV cases in Pakistan
World | Nov 28, 2014, 12:07 PM ISTIslamabad: At least 994 new HIV/AIDS cases have been detected across Sindh province in Pakistan this year, according to a media report."These numbers could be alarming for everyone, but this reflects the efficiency of our
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India faces shortage of crucial HIV drug
India | Oct 02, 2014, 11:16 AM ISTNew Delhi: Many of the 2.1 million HIV-affected patients in India could be in for difficulties with the government facing shortage of a critical medicine which is distributed free.Tenofovir/lamivudine tablets may run out of stock,
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Woman's body is a temple, says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, social media outraged
National | Aug 29, 2014, 12:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: Union Health Minister seems to have developed a knack for getting into controversy through his remarks. This time he is finding himself in the firing line over her description of a woman's body
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Manohar Parrikar shares meal with HIV+ children
India | Aug 17, 2014, 11:36 AM ISTPanaji: At a time when the nation debated a controversial demand for a special ‘bikini beach' in Goa, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was fulfilling a promise lost in the hullabaloo of the two-piece bathing accessory.Parrikar