AIDS Initiative was launched in 2003 in six States

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Avahan programme may have prevented over 6 lakh HIV infections in India over 10 years, according to a report in Lancet Global Health .

As many as 45 dengue cases have come to light in the last six days. With this, the total number of dengue positive patients for the state capital stands at 169.

With 57 cases in a decade, it is far below the hardest-hit countries, Congo with 10,581 and Madagascar with 7,182.

A total of 1,497 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in August, with AIDS the top cause of death, according to figures released by health authorities on Monday.

A deadly pig virus, which first broke out in India earlier this year, has made a comeback in Mizoram.

The first death caused by dengue fever outside the city has alarmed the provincial health department and demanding the health and municipal authorities of various districts to improve their efforts

The world’s eighth Global Diseases Detection (GDD) Regional Center, which works to identify, control and combat priority infectious diseases, opened in Bangladesh yesterday.

Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its f

Medical experts yesterday said that HIV positive cases continued to show an alarming increase in Sri Lanka.

Gastroenteritis is out of control across district Rawalpindi as 1243 patients have been brought to three hospitals of the garrison city since the advent of the holy month of Ramazan.