In a relief to pharma majors, the Delhi high court today held as "illegal and unsustainable" the Centre's decision to put a ceiling on the price of condoms, including the luxury variety.
The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
The trial in India is part of a multi-country initiative of the same vaccine candidate. Trials are already on in Germany and Belgium and initial results have given excellent safety data.
India is all set to sign a treaty with the United Nations' agency on AIDS for implementing a comprehensive programme for checking the pandemic's spread in the country.
They will jointly launch AIDS prevention programmes targeting the youth and high-risk groups.
The Baywatch actress will endorse a lipgloss for AIDS awareness.
The condom is made of polyurethane and designed to fit the female body, Dr Shilpa Merchant, national HIV/AIDS coordinator, PSI, said during it launch in Mumbai on Wednesday evening.
Anita Datar is the sole US citizen to have been killed in the attack.
A hospital in north China's Shanxi province has set up an unique spa for HIV/AIDS patients where they can receive treatment and make a living too.
Hyderabad-based pharma company Hetero Drugs Ltd said on Monday that it had been chosen by the Clinton Research Foundation as one of the four Indian pharmaceutical companies.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd launched an anti-retroviral product, ABACAVIR, in India. The product, bioequivalent to the innovator brand, will be marketed in India under the brand name VIROL as 300 mg tablet formulation.
The Libyan court found six Bulgarian medics an a Palestinian doctor guilty of infecting 426 children with the HIV virus during blood transfusions at the Al Fateh hospital.
China has started producing five drugs that can be used in four different cocktails to treat AIDS patients, whose numbers are rising alarmingly.
The US government is threatening to obstruct low-income countries from accessing generic HIV/AIDS drugs approved by the World Health Organization, a human rights group charged on Friday.
The United Nations secretary general also sought international assistance to contain the epidemic, which was killing 8,000 people daily.
Two HIV infected children's desire to attend school has divided Kottiyoor, a small town in Kerala.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Friday launched a major medical initiative to make available Anti-Retroviral Drugs to millions affected by HIV/AIDS around the world at almost one-third of the existing market costs.
Right now, there are 273 full-blown cases of HIV infection in J&K, including 40 in six districts of the Kashmir valley, defence sources said.
India Association chairman Balwant Singh Grewal, who is based in London, wants to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS and cancer.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS hailed its expansion from 17 to 114 companies and praised member firms like Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Tata Steel and Daimler-Chrysler.\n
'I hope that by adding my voice to the cause of children, it will make a difference in the lives of boys and girls here at home and across the region,' he said.
On July 16, 1991, the world's first hospital on a train chugged out of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on its maiden journey. Twenty-six years later, the Lifeline Express (also called Jeevan Rekha Express) continues to take a multitude of medical services, from major surgeries to dedicated cancer treatment, to the people of India.
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Chilaveri Bhoomeshwar and A M Krishna have moved the Delhi high court challenging the provisions of the Drug and Cosmetics Rules that prevent them from getting a license for marketing the medicine.\n\n\n\n\n\n
Indian companies, key players in the field of generic medicines, especially for AIDS, may benefit from a $15-billion US programme aimed at combating the deadly disease in 14 countries.
"Such horror is not acceptable in any society in the world and must be condemned in the strongest possible and public manner," Brian Haill, president of the Australian AIDS Fund Inc said.
He was in news after the then DIG (Prisons) D Roopa recently alleged that Telgi was among several prisoners who received special treatment in the jail.
'Every disease has traits and we have found out that actually 99 per cent of people who have got COVID-19, should recover.'
Director of Operations Christopher Stokes said the non governmental organisation was withdrawing for "operational and human resources reasons".
With sales of over Rs 12,240 crore in nine months of the current financial year, it is ahead of Rs 11,580 crore recorded by Lupin but behind Sun Pharma, which reported Rs 19,350 crore sales.
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