Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025.

But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will add some $2 billion a year to the bill to fight the 32-year AIDS epidemic, they acknowledged.

In yet another twist to the Ranbaxy scandal, the drug regulatory authority of the UK government has issued a statement clarifying that they have found no evidence that any of Ranbaxy’s products in

The national and international nongovernmental organisations in collaboration with the relevant government departments on Monday launched the ‘Mother and Motherhood through Advocacy and Awareness (

The Global Fund (The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria) offered a grant of US $ 1.9 million to the Sri Lankan government for use on TB control activities.

June 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka is committed to be "a champion in the AIDS response" towards achieving zero new HIV/AIDS infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, the President of S

The country’s inability to achieve all the tenets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the established deadline has prompted various City-based volunteer organisations to compile recommenda

Officials of District Aids Programme Control Unit (DAPCU) swung into action following the report filed by National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) terming around 132 villages as sensitive to HIV t

‘State has 36,000 HIV+ people in the grey zone who are unaware of the infection’

Of the 6.51 lakh units of blood collected in Karnataka from April 2012 to March 2013, 1,096 were found to be HIV positive and therefore discarded. Shockingly, of these, a mere 236 (21.5 per cent) HIV+ people were referred to Integrated Testing and Counselling Centres (ICTC) for further counselling and treatment.

Testing every person in India’s billion plus population for HIV will be cost-effective.

A recent study has revealed that a total of 302 people of the district have been suffering from HIV.