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Tamil Nadu: Another woman alleges contracting HIV after blood transfusion
In another incident of medical negligence in Tamil Nadu, a woman has made a claim that she contracted HIV virus after undergoing blood transfusion at a government hospital. The blood was transfused while she was getting treated for low haemoglobin. The government hospital has refuted the claim. Hospital Dean Dr[Read More…]
TN: Blood donor in guilt attempts suicide after pregnant woman transfused with HIV positive blood
After the recent Tamil Nadu medical negligence case, a 19-year-old blood donor attempted suicide on Wednesday after he realised that he was HIV Positive and his donated blood has been infused to a pregnant woman in Tamil Nadu resulting her to be infected with HIV too. A resident of Ramanathapuram district attempted[Read More…]
‘HIV counselling, test centres in Delhi lack privacy’
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi: Privacy of patients who go for HIV testing and counselling in the national capital’s government hospitals remains a prime concern as many of them don’t have separate counselling rooms for males and females, a study has found. The study, titled “Integrated Counselling and HIV Testing Centres of Delhi: An Evaluation”,[Read More…]
World AIDS Day: Bihar witnesses 16% dip in HIV affected population
The HIV affected population in the state of Bihar is now low by 16%. At the national level, this figure is 27%. By 2020, nationwide, the target to lower down the number of HIV patients is 75%. At present, there are 1.15 lakh patients affected by HIV and are getting[Read More…]
Karnataka to launch ‘Treat All Policy’ for HIV patients
Karnataka is going to launch a ‘Treat All Policy’ on Wednesday considering just less than half of HIV patients are registered with anti retroviral therapy (ART) and receiving treatment. With the new policy at place, an additional 20,000 patients will be eligible for ART. Karnataka is among the eight high-prevalence[Read More…]
Chandigarh: HIV-positive women give birth to healthy babies
In Chandigarh, a number of HIV-positive women have given birth to healthy babies in a government-run hospital, a state health official has said. A multi-medicine treatment process has worked on as many as 213 women as they yielded better results having given birth to healthy babies. “The health department is[Read More…]
Father throws AIDS patient son out of house in UP
In an unfortunate incident, UP police received a complaint on Wednesday from an AIDS patient against his father who allegedly forced to leave his house along with his family due to his illness. The man who works at a mason outside the state had returned home recently when he was[Read More…]
HIV cases reduced in Goa: Survey
The number of people who are detected of HIV in Goa have hysterically reduced during the last ten years says an according to the Economic Survey 2016-17 tabled in the State Legislative Assembly. Although the number of blood samples received for testing HIV is rising, the number of people detected positive[Read More…]
HIV kids denied school admission, SC takes up case
New HIV cure on the brink after monkey study
Scientists may have found a way to suppress an HIV-like infection in monkeys, without the need for ongoing drug therapy. The researchers added antibody therapy to standard drug treatment given to macaque monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). After three months, the animals were taken off the drugs, but[Read More…]
India may allow HIV self-testing in privacy of one’s home
For the first time, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended HIV self-testing in the privacy of one’s home using HIV kit. This shift can bring about a major breakthrough in HIV treatment by improving access to diagnosis. Although India does not permit HIV self-test currently, the UN agency’s guidance[Read More…]
AIDS cases reduced by 54 percent: Govt
The government on Tuesday said that the number of AIDS related deaths in the country has reduced by 54% between 2007 and 2015. “The number of AIDS related deaths has reduced by 54 per cent from 2007 to 2015. As on October, 2016, 21,406 and 1,636 Integrated Counselling and Testing[Read More…]
Breakthrough! Vaccine against HIV closer to reality, say researchers
In a remarkable progress towards the development of a vaccine against HIV, scientists have developed a new approach to help the immune system actively fight the virus in the body. For the first time, researchers showed that a combined approach – using a common cold virus to introduce a vaccine[Read More…]
Breakthrough! Scientists create USB device for HIV test
Scientists at Imperial College London and spinout company DNA Electronics have developed a USB stick-based test to measure levels of HIV in the blood that produces results less than half an hour. The computer plug-in needs a single drop of blood to conduct the test and transmit the results to[Read More…]
AIDS: Myth around ‘Patient Zero’ busted
A combination of research, both historical and genetic in nature has revealed the error and hype that led to the coining of the term ‘Patient Zero’ and the blaming of one man for the spread of HIV athwart North America. The new study proves that a flight attendant who became[Read More…]
Hope for humanity! British man becomes first to recover from HIV
In what could be a breakthrough discovery, a 44-year-old British man is actually the first person in the history to be cured of HIV. Scientists told The Sunday Times that presently the virus is completely undetectable in the man’s blood and if it remains that way it will be the[Read More…]