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HC directs Delhi govt to give free food, treatment to HIV-positive persons

Delhi High Court has directed the city government to ensure free food and medical treatment to HIV-positive persons living below the poverty line and strictly comply with the law dealing with the affected patients' grievances. A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma observed that several rehabilitative schemes and measures, including affordable treatment, had been put in place by the Delhi government to provide aid and assistance to HIV-positive patients and it was ensuring strict compliance under the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017. "It is abundantly evident that the GNCTD is ensuring strict compliance under the statutory provisions of the 2017 Act. Further, the GNCTD has taken all possible steps to ensure that affordable treatment is available to individuals afflicted with HIV/AIDS, who do not possess the financial wherewithal to do so," the bench also comprising Justice Subramonium Prasad said in

Adequate stocks: Govt says amid HIV patients' protest over drugs shortage

A group of HIV patients have been protesting before the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) office in Delhi over the shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at government centres

IIT Madras researchers show the way for more effective drugs to treat HIV

Using molecular dynamics simulations, the research team have shown that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of the antiviral

No cure for HIV yet, but early diagnosis may help lead longer lives

An HIV patient who has received timely treatment can live a normal and long life without progressing to late stage HIV

Johnson & Johnson says no evidence of HIV drug working against Coronavirus

The company said it was aware that HIV treatments are being considered as options to treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19, a disease caused by the coronavirus

Treating HIV+ infants early may substantially improve health: Report

HIV infections in newborns pose a huge health burden in developing countries. One study estimated that 300 to 500 infants are infected every day in sub-Saharan Africa

A cure for HIV? Case studies show feasible treatments not yet realised

The treatment involves destroying a person's own immune system with high doses of chemotherapy or radiation. Then the patient receives a transplant of new stem cells from either themselves or a donor

Major breakthrough in treatment of AIDS: Second patient cured of HIV

London HIV patient's doctors found a donor with a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to HIV

India has highest number of children, teens with HIV in South Asia: Report

In India, an estimated 120,000 children and adolescents aged 0-19 were living with HIV in 2017

Researchers look for answers to HIV

Centralised repository of samples from AIDS patients being set up

Three decades on, stigma still stymies HIV prevention and treatment

For instance, a woman living with HIV could choose not to go back for more medication because she's scared someone from her community will see her and learn her status

Scientists develop experimental vaccine to prevent HIV

"Our method addresses this problem by designing a vaccine component that mimics a protein-sugar part of this shield," said Wang.

India, China, Pak among 10 nations with 95% HIV in APAC last year: UN

Sex workers and their clients, gay men, people who inject drugs, transgenders largely affected

Trial starts to test new, potent HIV vaccine

The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) is conducting the trial at 15 sites across South Africa. Results are expected in late 2020

Effective vaccine against AIDS in the offing

An emerging vaccine strategy involves immunising people with a series of different engineered HIV proteins as immunogens

Over 21 lakh Indians living with HIV: Nadda

The country has the 3rd largest number of people living with HIV in the world.