Nagpur: 1 child dies, other 4 contract HIV following blood transfusion procedure
India | May 26, 2022 14:13 ISTThe doctor treating these patients said tainted blood was supplied to patients.
The doctor treating these patients said tainted blood was supplied to patients.
As many as 85,000 of HIV have been reported in India during the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdown due to unprotected sexual activity. Therefore, it is important to understand the importance of having sex in a safe manner so that you don't catch HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease or STDs.
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 new "VB variant" (for virulent subtype B) was first identified in 17 HIV positive individuals from the BEEHIVE project, an ongoing study which collects samples from across Europe and Uganda.
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 surgery was performed by a team of spine surgeons using modern technology like O-arm and navigation, and was witnessed online by 25 international and over 50 Indian experts, besides around 200 delegates, the statement said.
She raised an alarm when she found the doors of her room locked from outside.
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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.
Like HIV and hepatitis, Covid-19 cannot transmit to the new born babies even if the mother had tested positive for the deadly virus, as around 250 nCoV positive women were found to have delivered healthy babies in Tripura, doctors and experts said.
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 COVID-19 vaccine, which was being developed by the University of Queensland (UQ) and biotech firm CSL, have been scrapped, the company said in a statement released to the Australian Stock Exchange, CSL said it would halt the further trials.
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.
The screenings for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have dropped by over 40-45 per cent approximately since April, just around the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, as compared to previous years, said a senior doctor.
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.
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