A highly successful AIDS prevention programme launched in India by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has evoked great interest in Africa where over two thirds of people with the deadly diseas

A Central team from the National AIDS Control Organisation, New Delhi, which is in the State to evaluate the care, support and treatment programmes implemented by Tamil Nadu, has said that there ar

After much dilly-dallying, the Centre has finally agreed to do away with Stavudine, having long-term irreversible side-effects, with a safer drug for HIV patients, even though the switchover will c

120,000 new HIV infections were reported in 2009.

The 12th five-year plan will strive for a 60 per cent reduction in new Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections by 2017. The plan document will also incorporate recommendations of a Planning Commission working group constituted to suggest measures to strengthen AIDS control in the country.

GUWAHATI: On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi assured that the government may soon take initiatives to provide affordable treatments to the patients who have been su

UNAIDS’s World AIDS Day report for 2011, which was released on Monday, revealed a dramatic decrease of 56 per cent between 1996 and 2010 in the number of new HIV infections in India.

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The second phase of Red Ribbon Express, a 10-coach exhibition train for creating awareness about HIV/AIDS in farflung areas of the country, was flagged-off on Tuesday by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

The express is aimed at creating awareness about HIV/AIDS.