In a shocking incident, at least 44 male prisoners and one female inmate were found infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in a jail in Uttarakhand's Haldwani district.
The victim said that she had been told that the injection given to her was to ensure good health during her pregnancy.
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The innovative treatment was developed to defeat the virus with a one-time injection, with the potential of bringing about tremendous improvement in the patients' condition.
Maraviroc could be used off-label to help restore middle-aged memory loss in mice, as well as reverse the cognitive deficits caused by HIV infection.
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) informed that 85,268 HIV cases were reported due to unprotected sexual activity across the country during the period of the first COVID lockdown in 2020-21.
Researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada have revealed a possible answer to the mystery of why infected people can't get rid of HIV altogether. The team found that in HIV patients, killer T cells -- a type of white blood cells responsible for identifying and destroying cells infected with viruses -- have very little to none of a protein called CD73.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared December 1 as World AIDS Day in 1988. Over 36 million lives have been lost to HIV or AIDS-related diseases so far, and an estimated 37.7 million individuals are suffering from it, at the end of 2020. World AIDS Day 2021: From causes, prevention to treatment, here's everything you should know about HIV AIDS.
The goal of the trial is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of the HIVconsvX vaccine -- a mosaic vaccine targeting a broad range of HIV-1 variants, making it potentially applicable for HIV strains in any geographical region.
In a groundbreaking study, a team of University of California- Davis Health researchers have uncovered the stem cells' ability to restore immunity and repair gut damage caused by HIV.
The pre-existing conditions among people living with HIV/AIDS may contribute to the severity of their Covid-19 cases. The beneficial effects of antiviral drugs, such astenofovir and protease-inhibitors, in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and death from Covid-19 in people living with HIV/AIDS remain inconclusive, according to the researchers
A new research has found that when people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develop high blood pressure, the type of medication chosen for their initial treatment may influence their risk of heart disease, stroke and heart failure.
The human immunodeficiency virus infects the cells that can either exploit them to start making more copies of itself or remain dormant, a phenomenon called latency.
The ICMR released its findings from a case-control study conducted on the sudden increase in the detection of HIV among attendees of an Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre (ICTC) located in a district hospital in Unnao in 2017.
India's HIV prevention model can be adopted and scaled up in many countries by tailoring the targeted interventions programme as per local settings and can also be replicated in other prevention and disease control initiatives, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday.
Researchers at the renowned Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in this tech city are developing vaccines to treat Covid-19 and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), an official said on Tuesday.
Brown, 54, who was born in the US, was diagnosed with HIV while he lived in Berlin in 1995. Then in 2007 he developed a type of blood cancer called acute myeloid leukaemia.
In a bizarre incident, a 9-year-old has undergone an HIV test after accidentally stabbing himself with a syringe in the beach sand at Boscombe, near Bournemouth, UK. According to his dad, he was taken to the hospital to have tests done to see if the needle was contaminated and it’ll be eight weeks until they get the results.
In a rare incident, a patient has cleared functional HIV infection without outside help. This may the first known instance of a spontaneous cure. According to reports, over 1-5 billion cells of this patient was analysed and it showed no functional HIV copies in any of them. However, the person still has some non-functional copies of the virus.
Scientists have predicted a surge in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria deaths in low- and middle-income countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but add that this toll can be reduced by prioritising the most critical services, such as timely diagnosis and treatment for these diseases.
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