HIV/AIDS: How can you reduce your risk of transmission?
HIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through certain body fluids – blood, semen and pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, breastmilk.
Oct 06, 2016, 10:09 AM IST
Cabinet approves amendments to HIV, AIDS Bill
The Cabinet on Wednesday here approved amendments to the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, which was drafted to safeguard the rights of people living with and affected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Oct 05, 2016, 14:06 PM IST
Breakthrough in HIV? Researchers may have found a possible cure for deadly infection
The research, being carried out by five of Britain's top universities with NHS support, is combining standard antiretroviral drugs with a drug that reactivates dormant HIV and a vaccine that induces the immune system to destroy the infected cells.
Oct 03, 2016, 11:28 AM IST
Declining trend of HIV in Meghalaya: Patel
Although Meghalaya is not high prevalence with respect to the general population but there is definitely a rise in the high risk groups.
Sep 29, 2016, 09:56 AM IST
UN high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance: Five things to know!
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the biggest threats to global health and endangers other major priorities.
Sep 22, 2016, 06:33 AM IST
Why 1.1 mn HIV+ve Indians don't get drugs they need
In India, the drug cocktail is given to patients with a count of less than 350 CD4 cells per mm3 of blood -- CD4 cells are white blood cells, a count of which indicates the health of a person's immune system.
Sep 12, 2016, 13:42 PM IST
2,234 get HIV via blood transfusion; Govt claims ignorance
The information was made available by NACO when it replied to a right-to-information (RTI) request filed by activist Chetan Kothari earlier this year.
Sep 06, 2016, 16:15 PM IST
Hong Kong records 188 new HIV cases
A total of 188 new cases of HIV infection were reported in Hong Kong in the second quarter of 2016, health officials said on Tuesday.
Aug 30, 2016, 21:29 PM IST
HIV, Hepatitis patients have higher chances of committing suicide
Study results suggest hospitalisation with infection was linked to a 42 per cent higher risk of suicide death compared to those individuals without infection. Also, the study suggested that more the infections, longer the treatment and higher the apparent risk of death by suicide.
Aug 14, 2016, 19:34 PM IST
How violence contributes to diseases among sex workers
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Aug 09, 2016, 19:23 PM IST
Parasitic worm infection may increase HIV risk
W bancrofti is a mosquito borne parasitic worm. Worldwide, it causes 90 per cent of lymphatic filariasis cases, a disease commonly known as elephantiasis, which is a neglected tropical disease as defined by the World Health Organisation.
Aug 03, 2016, 16:39 PM IST
How HIV disrupts immune system revealed
HIV-infected people whose immune systems made neutralising antibodies have similar immune alterations, or perturbations, as found in individuals with autoimmune disease, revealed a study.
Aug 01, 2016, 16:25 PM IST
Hepatitis B, C pose huge health challenge in India: Experts
Hepatitis B is 50-100 times more infectious than HIV and Hepatitis C is 10 times more infectious than the virus that can cause AIDS.
Jul 27, 2016, 16:25 PM IST
How much do you know about hepatitis - Take the quiz here
Hepatitis can also be caused by alcohol and some other toxins, certain drugs, infections, heavy alcohol use.
Jul 27, 2016, 14:17 PM IST
Types of HIV carried by chimps can infect humans: Study
A new study led by researchers have found the evidence that strains of chimpanzee-carried simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and even the forms of HIV, can infect human cells.
Jul 23, 2016, 10:37 AM IST
New forms of HIV can jump from animals to humans
The researchers found that the SIV ancestor of HIV-1 M - the strain responsible for the global HIV pandemic - and another ancestral strain of HIV found only among residents of Cameroon can jump from animals to humans.
Jul 22, 2016, 12:58 PM IST
New HIV infections steady at 2.5 mn a year worldwide: Study
Nearly 2.5 million people worldwide become new victims of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) each year although deaths from the deadly virus have been steadily declining from a peak in 2005, finds a study.
Jul 20, 2016, 22:57 PM IST
Cancer immunotherapy may fight HIV too
A type of immunotherapy that has shown promising results against cancer could also be used against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, suggests new research.
Jul 16, 2016, 15:46 PM IST
Here's why Prince Harry took HIV test Live on Facebook – Watch!
The test, which involved a pinprick and took about a minute, was broadcast live on the royal family's Facebook page.
Jul 15, 2016, 10:21 AM IST
Breakthrough in AIDS treatment? Austrian researchers find potential remedy for terrible immune disease!
The research is based on a substance known as resveratrol, that occurs naturally in grapes as a means of defence against fungi and bacteria.
Jul 12, 2016, 09:09 AM IST
