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29 Apr 2024

DNA: Can You Get HIV From a Tattoo?

01 Dec 2023

World AIDS Day 2023: How To Prevent HIV Transmission In Pregnant Women

Dr Pooja Rana, Senior Consultant Gynecologist, Rosewalk Hospital explains how to prevent HIV Transmission in pregnant women.

01 Dec 2022

Need to provide everyone equitable access to HIV prevention: WHO

In the South-East Asia Region, an estimated 3.8 million people are living with HIV, accounting for around 10 per cent of the global burden, she said on World AIDS Day.

World AIDS Day 2022

01 Dec 2022

World AIDS day 2022: Know why 'Red Ribbon' is used as a symbol of AIDS

World AIDS Day is observed annually on December 1. This day is observed all over the world to urge people to come together in the battle against HIV. To promote awareness and support for people living with HIV, AIDS Day has its own universal symbol which is a ''Red Ribbon''

10 Jun 2022

Big HIV Aids-Spreader Gang busted in Bengaluru

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 workers without their knowledge. During the probe, the accused revealed they had visited around 90 sex workers.

16 Feb 2022

In a first, US woman cured of HIV

In a presentation at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in the US on Tuesday, the researchers reported that the woman has had no detectable levels of HIV for 14 months despite cessation of antiretroviral therapy (ART).

01 Dec 2020

Drop in HIV screening amid COVID outbreak can take collateral toll: Doctor

Screenings for HIV have dropped by over 40-45 % approximately since April, just around the time the COVID pandemic hit India. India has the third-highest number of estimated people living with HIV in the world. The estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India was 2.08 million (20.9 lakh) in 2011.

04 Jun 2019

HIV patients more likely to develop heart diseases

In the statement, published in the Circulation journal, the researchers indicated that the heart disease risk among HIV patients occurs due to interactions between traditional risk factors, such as diet, lifestyle and tobacco use; and HIV-specific risk factors, such as a chronically activated immune system and inflammation characteristic of chronic HIV.

04 Jun 2019

Two-thirds of AIDS treatment drugs supplied globally by India

India, which is described as the pharmacy to the world has a special licence the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool to manufacture anti-AIDS medicine TenofovirAlafenamide (TAF) for 112 developing countries.

28 Apr 2017

AIDS may eventually vanish from India as Centre proposes to develop national strategic plan

The Health Ministry launched a 'test and treat policy for HIV' under which as soon as a person tests positive for the disease, he will be provided with antiretroviral therapy (ART) irrespective of his CD count or clinical stage.

26 Nov 2015

Kylie Jenner's HIV fears

Kylie Jenner is worried because her boyfriend Tyga and HIV positive Charlie Sheen had once been involved with the same transgender pornstar in the past.

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