Overcrowding in hospitals, malnutrition, unhygienic tropical environs heighten problem in India

Fungal infections kill close to 1.3 million people globally every year, matching the mortality rate of AIDS, cancer, malaria and tuberculosis, and also cause blindness to 300 million people annually.

Wednesday, January 01, 2014 - Islamabad—A total of 7,819 patients of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) have been registered in the country’s various hospitals during the last five years

KARACHI: Eight hundred fresh cases of HIV have been registered in the current year in Sindh, said Dr Mohammad Ahmed Kazi, Provincial Manager for Sindh AIDS Control Programme (SACP) on Wednesday.

Ten out of the 1,460 people whose blood samples were collected for tests tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS .

The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has expressed concern over the Supreme Court order that gay sex is illegal, saying the ruling will prevent vulnerable communities from accessing health facili

In 2012, the new HIV infections were 338 while the number of patients with AIDS was 103. Some 65 patients died of AIDS last year.

There has been an overall reduction of 5.8 per cent in new HIV infections in Haryana during the past five years.

GURGAON: Compared to last year, according to State AIDS Control Society, number of HIV cases in the district has seen a decline.