The COVID-19 virus got mutated 223 times in the world and its harmful effects have come down substantially over time, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in Lok Sabha on Friday.
Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and his team may have found a way to attack the weakest link in HIV. According to a paper in the journal Autoimmune Reviews, the team has found an unchanging part of the virus that can be attacked using abzymes -- that is, antibodies that have enzymatic activity.
Sri Lanka's World Cup team members took time out on Tuesday from their practice session at the Brabourne Stadium to show their support for the Think Wise campaign -- a partnership between the International Cricket Council, UNAIDS and UNICEF.
The global epidemic continues to grow with 2.9 million deaths last year.
The country had the third-largest number of people living with disease.
The United States administration has fined a school in Pennsylvania for barring admission to a 13-year-old with HIV saying it violated American law.
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The company has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Abacavir Sulfate Lamivudine, and Zidovudine Tablets, Lupin Ltd said in a statement.
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Jogender Singh, a resident of Agra, approached the court stating that he was not recommended for training after\nappointed as Executive Training (Technical) as HAL on the basis of medical report declared him unfit for the job.
The Assam government will file a criminal case over the shocking incident of several patients getting infected with the AIDS virus after receiving blood from the blood bank in a government civil hospital at Mangaldoi in North Assam.
The known cases of AIDS are only 91,080 as the practice before 1998 was to report only confirmed cases.
The refusal by the hospital on Sunday forced the 25-year-old woman to undertake a 50-kilometre journey to Bareilly. Precious time was lost and it was too late as my wife delivered a stillborn at the Bareilly district hospital, her husband alleged.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said on Monday it has entered into a licensing agreement with US-based Gilead Sciences Inc for manufacturing and marketing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient and formulations containing anti-HIV drug Tenofovir.
Until now, it has been unclear what effects hypervaccination such as this would have on the immune system. Some scientists were of the opinion that immune cells would become less effective after becoming used to the antigens.
Police said the incident took place outside a tavern in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town where 21-year-old Lorna Mlosana was sitting with a friend.
Criticising the state's police, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry in a case where 23 children suffering from thalassemia contracted HIV, allegedly during the routine blood transfusion procedures at the Junagadh civil hospital.
Sister Alpho Drace of 'Asha Kiran' said the centre would not like to see the children being discriminated in the school.
At present, it is mandatory only for nationals to undergo the tests for HIV/Aids, Hepatitis B and sexually transmitted diseases, as a prerequisite for getting married.
Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Baroda cities top with the most number of AIDS-affected people.
Alkesh Wadhwani is the head, India programs, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks to Shobha Warrier on the Avahan India Project.
BJP leader Diya Kumari, who was elected deputy chief minister of Rajasthan along with Prem Chand Bairwa, is a member of erstwhile Jaipur royal family and a two-time MLA.
The Kerala high court on Thursday issued notices to the authorities and Parents Teachers Association of a school in Kottayam, where five HIV positive children were facing 'boycott' by other students.
A Delhi based NGO had claimed that Pavnamma, 30, was stoned to death near Kuppam for carrying the disease.
'I am not ashamed that I have AIDS. I once announced that I am HIV+ on national TV.'
The poll also found that 25 per cent of people in developed countries believe that the problem of HIV/AIDS has been greatly exaggerated by the media.
Strides Arcolab Ltd has signed an agreement with US-based bio-pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences, for manufacturing and distributing generic versions of anti-HIV drugs Truvada and Viread.
'90 per cent of India's population is vaccinated; they are immunised. We need not worry.'
While nation mourns the death of the "People's President", an orphaned girl from a far flung village of Odisha remembers the gesture of A P J Abdul Kalam towards her HIV positive siblings ten years ago.
Disapproving the remarks made by Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sanatan Dharma', Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut has said it is not right to attract the anger of the entire country and that no one agrees with his statement.
Victim Saraswati Vaidya's live-in partner Manoj Sane, 56, has been arrested for allegedly killing her and dismembering the body in their 7th-floor rented apartment in Mira Road of Thane district.
'The first duty of the government is to learn lessons from a bad experience and course correct. It's a pity that the government is making policy without looking at evidence and differentiating between immediate and urgent.'
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'The foul smell is still experienced in the premises and we are now sanitising the entire complex'
Fauci, 81, has been the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director since 1984, and the chief medical adviser to the US President Joe Biden.
'Some of the longer-term implications of COVID-19 are not related to the virus itself.' 'They are actually related to immune responses from the virus.'
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