Tag: HIV
Emcure Pharmaceuticals conferred with Merit Award at HIV Congress 2023
The Merit Award acknowledges the firm’s immense contribution in the field of HIV/AIDS to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS
Early HIV detection for better care: Bridging the gap with advanced...
Innovations like point-of-care testing, which refers to rapid HIV screening performed in clinical settings by professionals, are crucial to ensure timely infection detection
Cipla & DNDi launch child-friendly 4-in-1 antiretroviral treatment in South Africa
This new formulation represents a significant improvement over protease inhibitor-containing paediatric ARV formulations that have been used in South Africa for decades
Cabinet approves MoU between India & USA to develop new biomedical...
Agreement will further strengthen relations between India and the USA within the framework of international scientific and technological cooperation in fields of mutual interest.
Scientists develop new technology platform to detect SARS-CoV-2
A highlight of the study is that it presents an entirely new strategy to target a unique, unconventional nucleic acid structure specific to the SARS-CoV-2 sequence using small molecules
Bridging the Gap: Overcoming pandemic disruptions to HIV testing
Of India’s 23.5 lac (2.35 million) people living with HIV, only 17.8 lacs (1.78 million) know their status. 13.8 lacs (1.38 million) are on antiretroviral treatment, of which 84% are virally suppressed.......................
Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar launches Phase II of awareness campaigns on...
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare appreciated the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)’s work in reaching out to a large number of youth throughout the country during the COVID-19 pandemic....................
Antiretroviral therapy effectively reduces HIV deaths: Study
Key findings of the study demonstrated the high impact of antiretroviral therapy and showed that the chance of death was halved among people on ART after 5 Years of treatment....................................
COVID-19: How data can help generate public health response?
Digitizing patient data at the hospitals would not take much time with the help of technological tools like scanners and spreadsheets, writes Dr Monika Chaudhary.........................
Indian scientists develop artificial enzyme to keep HIV virus in check
Made from vanadium pentoxide nanosheets, the new “nanozymes” work by mimicking the natural enzyme called glutathione peroxidase to help reduce oxidative stress levels in the host’s cells, which is required to keep the virus in check......................