Protecting the rights of HIV positive job seekers and those already employed, a policy document has asserted that their HIV screening should not be required at the time of giving jobs or extending other benefits.
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday said the Centre would enact legislation to eradicate discrimination against HIV/AIDS-affected people in the country.
The 50-year-old, who has had a troubled history with drugs, alcohol and prostitutes, said he paid out "enough to bring into the millions" to keep the illness a secret.
Vatican leaders claim HIV, being several times smaller than the sperm, can pass through tiny holes in condoms.
The final of the ICC Champions Trophy will be dedicated to the highly successful HIV awareness campaign, THINK WISE, which is a partnership between the ICC, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Bringing bad news to the fight against HIV/AIDS, a new study has shown that people in India do not have natural or genetic protection against the deadly virus. A study by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has found that a known genetic marker against HIV-1 is virtually absent in Indians, implying lack of natural or genetic protection against HIV/AIDS. The study also makes an effort to tabulate a genetic landscape of the Indian people for various diseases.
Southern Naval Command Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral Sunil K Damle on Thursday said though preventive efforts were taken to check the spread of HIV/AIDS in the armed forces from the 1980s, it has continued to haunt the forces.
To mark World AIDS Day today, we bring you the most common myths regarding causes and symptoms of HIV.
A United Nations report says it exhibits sensitivity towards People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).
The state government was committed to achieve zero HIV positive rate among new-born babies by having effective screening of pregnant women to prevent vertical transmission of the disease, he said.
"The homeopathy compound screened in vitro at NARI against HIV has been found to have a lot of potential in effectively killing the virus," Dr Ganguly told UNI. However, he refused to name the compound as there were Intellectual Property Rights issues involved. Moreover, there was a memorandum of understanding with the company which had given the compound, which is already being used in treatment of some other disease.
The map shows the change in HIV deaths per 100,000 population over 2005, 2009 and 2013.
Licenced drugs used for treating HIV/AIDS could be a possible tool for prevention the infection, according to researchers.
The girl has been allegedly denied the right to stay in the hostel of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalay residential school since past one year, though the school authorities allowed her to continue studies.
The third NACP is very participatory and democratically developed. The plan was chalked out keeping in mind that the earlier initiatives have started showing results.
The armed forces have not reported any AIDS death since 2005 and, at present, 32 cases of HIV are being treated.
India had the third-largest number of people living with HIV in the world at the end of 2013 and accounts for about four out of 10 people living with HIV in the Asian region.
Phoenix-based Andrew Pulsipher, 33, who has been HIV-positive since birth, recently posted a photo on Facebook which became a rage on the social media.
Cipla has got tentative approval from the USFDA for its abbreviated new drug application for anti-HIV/AIDS drug Slamivudine.
On the eve of World AIDS Day 2011, the World Bank has released groundbreaking new evidence from India that demonstrates major advances in the understanding and prevention of HIV/AIDS of up to 3 million HIV/AIDS cases.
Their most important finding is a small-molecule compound that can occupy a gap in a human cell ordinarily attacked by the HIV virus, experts from the University of Science and Technology of China were quoted as saying in China Youth Daily.
A lot of AIDS vaccine research is going on, but it is hard to say when it will be available, says Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
26 years after the first HIV+ case in Tamil Nadu, patients continue to be shunned and discriminated against. Shobha Warrier brings you the plight of such women from across the state.
Charity associations have urged the mission to help in the repatriation of Vadla as soon as possible.
For the first time, a once-a-day pill which reduces the chance of contracting HIV among high risk groups "significantly" has got green signal in the United States, where 1.2 million people are infected by the deadly disease.
'The figure is based on data collected since 1991 and the number of such cases could be more,' Joint Commissioner of Police P K Jain said.
Eight-year-old Akshara and her brother six-year-old Ananthu wanted to join a primary school near Kottiyoor in Kannur district of Kerala.
Expressing concern that over 7000 women become become HIV-positive everyday worldwide, the United Nations has called for enhancing women's access to sexual health services and commended India's efforts in controlling the spread of the disease.
The company has entered into an 'in-licencing agreement' with Gilead Sciences Inc to produce and sell, under licence, three new HIV/AIDS drugs which are currently in late stages of clinical development, Ranbaxy Laboratories said.
The pilot initiative will provide Rs 30,000 insurance cover for 250 people living with HIV in Karnataka's six districts of Bellary, Mangalore, Mandya, Kolar, Mysore and Udupi. The insurance cover entails the beneficiary Rs 15,000 assistance for hospitalisation and a similar sum to his family in the event of his death, Sanjay Rao Chaganti, programme director of Population Services International, an NGO behind the project, said.
A three-and-half-year-old child, who was being treated for burn injuries at Gauhati medical college and hospital, allegedly contracted HIV positive virus after transfusion of blood.
Most of the drugs now used to fight HIV, which is the retrovirus that causes AIDS, target the virus' own proteins. But those viral targets change quickly and lead to emergence of drug-resistant viral strains. But the scientists found that when they interfered with a human protein called interleukin-2-inducible T cell kinase (ITK), they inhibited HIV infection of key human immune cells called T cells. ITK activates T cells as part of the body's healthy immune response.
DMK deputy general secretary and Lok Sabha MP A Raja has likened Sanatan Dharma to disease like leprosy that had social stigma.
They may be rivals on the field of play, but India opener Virender Sehwag and Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara have joined together to star in a new 'Think Wise campaign' launched by the ICC on Tuesday, educating people about HIV/AIDS and how to avoid contracting the disease.
An interview with Indrani Sarkar, one of the scientists who engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell.
Over 20 children suffering from Thalassaemia have tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis C allegedly after transfusion of infected blood at a hospital in Jodhpur, two years after a similar incident had prompted an inquiry by the Rajasthan government.
Thrown out of her matrimonial home, an HIV-infected woman has knocked the doors of a Delhi court seeking custody of her 17-month-old son, allegedly snatched away from her by her in-laws, 13-days after her husband succumbed to the deadly disease.
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