Unsafe sex continues to be the most common route to HIV/AIDS in Haryana with the state witnessing a spurt in the number of AIDS cases from 189 in 2010 to 355 in 2011.

A United Nations report said on Tuesday that eradicating AIDS was in sight, owing to better access to drugs that can both treat and prevent the incurable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that cau

According to a new UN report, incidence of new HIV infections has fallen by half across 25 countries

The rate of new HIV infections in India has dropped by an encouraging 57% over the last decade thanks to increased domestic spending towards the AIDS response. According to a new UN report, incidence of new HIV infections has fallen by half across 25 countries.

New Delhi: Nearly 25 years after HIV was detected in India, travel restrictions continue to bar patients from free movement through nations. HIV-related travel restrictionsexist in 45 countries.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has failed to utilise the funds for the last three years despite increasing assistance from the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) every year.

Findings have been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

The HIV-AIDS laboratory at the city-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has found that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I (HIV-1) has been undergoing a process of evolution in India over the past decade and possibly in other parts of the world.
The study — with 165 samples — conducted from 2010 to 2011 by a group of scientists led by Professor Ranga Uday Kumar of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit of the centre has been published in the November 7th issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, accessible at http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2012/11/06/jbc.M112.397158.abstract.

A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Tuesday asked an expert committee to come up with suggestions to curb spread of malaria and dengue in the city.

The order came after government authorities filed an affidavit showing that cases of malaria had increased from 5,504 last year to 13,480 this year. The cases of dengue registered till August last year were 283, but against this, 439 cases have been registered this year.

Concerned over the ill effects of Stavudine d4T, a first-line drug against HIV for long, the Centre plans to replace it with safer and better-tolerated Tenofovir and Zidovudine.

A mysterious new disease has left a number of people in Asia and some in the US with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.