India is witnessing a significant reduction in fresh cases of deadly HIV, which have come down by as much as 57%, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday.

Guwahati: Moved by the plight of children of AIDS victims, Governor of Assam, Janaki Ballav Patnaik, on Tuesday announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh to help Assam Network of Positive (ANP+) people, an NGO working for these children, according to a Raj Bhavan source.

The Governor along with first lady Jayanti Patnaik, on Tuesday met a delegation comprising of workers, children and officials of Assam Network of Positive People (ANP+) at the Raj Bhavan here.

The programme was started at six centres in Tamil Nadu

The Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre) has started a pilot testing programme of providing for six months isoniazid TB drug as prophylactic to HIV-positive individuals. People recruited will include those on antiretroviral therapy (ART) too. The programme was started about two months ago at six centres in Tamil Nadu (including two ART centres in Chennai) and it got under way recently in Bangalore, New Delhi and Hyderabad. The ART centres were chosen by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).

Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the worl

Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke — the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years — human mortality caused by climate change

Months after the Union Health Ministry turned down demands of a section of the medical community to devise ways to fight Totally Drug Resistant (TDR) Tuberculosis, an article in the latest issue of

The number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the state is down by 5 per cent, according to a survey by the National AIDS Control organization (NACO).

HIV positive cases in the district have gone up by about 33 per cent in the last one year.

JAIPUR: On World Aids Day, Rajasthan got a jolt when it was ranked sixth among states with high HIV prevalence. One out of every 200 pregnant women in the state tested positive for HIV in 2010-11.