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The dissonance between medical success in treating HIV and social acceptance of people living with HIV must be addressed

A young woman from Medchal-Malkajgiri district died by suicide after allegedly being assaulted and injected with blood by her former fiancé following a cancelled engagement. The accused has been arrested, and police have registered a case and are investigating.

The National AIDS Control Organisation is rolling out an AI-based early warning system nationwide to predict HIV infections before diagnosis. The initiative under NACP Phase-V aims to enable early testing, prevention and reduced transmission among high-risk groups.

The report revealed that India is one of seven high TB-burden countries, along with Brazil, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia, to achieve over 80% treatment coverage in 2023. India also made significant progress in providing preventive therapy to household contacts of TB patients and people living with HIV, the report noted.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended HIV self-testing as part of HIV care cascade as it is an important approach to address gaps in HIV diagnoses, especially among key populations, in 2019.

The study, published in the journal Nature Immunology, showed that Covid virus persistence appears to be linked to a failure of innate immunity

One of the symptoms of HIV is a suppressed immune system, which makes patients more likely to contract infections like TB.

The dosing was deemed reasonable, considering the concentrations of each medicine in the blood.

Studies have shown that chronic Hepatitis virus infection can increase the risk of someone developing diabetes.

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has held that a person suffering from HIV, who is otherwise fit, cannot be denied employment or promotion.

The saliva-based test named Morcheck is currently the only third generation HIV test that uses oral fluid instead of blood

Hyderabad: A three-year-old boy, a thalassemia patient who was regularly undergoing blood transfusion, tested positive for HIV with the Nallakunta police now booking a case against a blood bank at Vidyanagar on charges of transferring HIV-infected blood to the boy. According to the police, a three-year-old boy from Rampally village in Ranga Reddy district was […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Police have nabbed a gang of three HIV-infected chain snatchers, who had entered into physical relation with the several sex workers in Bengaluru, police said on Friday. The investigations have revealed that the accused persons in the age group of 20-30 years, despite being infected with HIV, established physical relations with sex […]

Hyderabad: In the last few years, the gene-editing tool CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) has quickly emerged as a powerful technique that has the potential to end many diseases in the coming decades and even have a profound impact on the evolution of the human race. Through CRISPR, geneticists can alter the human […]

New Delhi: Sex is a vital part of human existence as it’s the process that leads to the birth of future offspring. That being said, it’s not the only reason why people do it as pleasure is also involved, however, if not practiced safely engaging in sexual activities can also lead to sexually transmitted diseases […]

New Delhi: Over 17 lakh people contracted HIV in the country in the last 10 years due to unprotected intercourse, according to the data provided by National AIDS Control Organization in response to an RTI query. However, the number of people contracting HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in the last 10 years has come down significantly. […]

New York: US scientists are using new advances in CRISPR gene-editing technology to uncover new biology that could lead to long-lasting treatments and new therapeutic strategies for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The HIV epidemic has been overlooked during the Covid-19 pandemic but represents a critical and ongoing threat to human health with an estimated 1.5 […]

Hyderabad: A patient from United States suffering from both cancer and HIV has become the first woman and third person in the world to get completely cured of the AIDS causing virus. While the treatment technique to cure HIV among all the three patients was risky, experimental and expensive, it sure has raised a lot […]

The woman dubbed as the New York patient is also the third person in the world to be cured of HIV disease, after receiving a stem cell transplant.

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad has been granted patent for ‘High active antiretroviral combination drugs loaded lactoferrin nanoparticles for first line and second line therapy’. This has been developed in the laboratory for molecular therapeutics, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Anand K. Kondapi for targeted delivery […]