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Topic: AIDS

New hope for HIV cure as third patient shows signs of remission after stem cell transplant

Senior physician Björn-Erik Ole Jensen says allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant is a strong answer to curing HIV-1

Manforce AIDS campaign is confused about what to market—awareness or social responsibility

In 2020, Manforce campaign asked Indians to use condoms without thinking about the brand, a clever way to build goodwill. This time it has fallen short.

New drugs mean AIDS is no longer life-limiting. But here’s why elderly will be left out

The threats and implications of HIV infection for older people are as serious as they are for younger age groups.

World AIDS Day: 57% Indians don’t use contraception, Ahmedabad ranks lowest, survey finds

The survey findings come the same day UNAIDS warns of possible '7.7 million more AIDS-related deaths' in next 10 years.

Moderna backtracks to now open Covid vaccine trial to HIV-positive people

The move came after advocacy groups pushed Moderna, noting that people with health conditions are among the most at-risk from the novel coronavirus.

How decades of work on elusive HIV vaccine has given hope for a ‘quick’ Covid vaccine

A Washington Post report says with $14.5 bn funnelled into hunt for HIV vaccine, scientists today have access to infrastructure that has allowed them to aim for a Covid vaccine by 2021.

On World AIDS Day, we shouldn’t let homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt us

We must consider what AIDS meant to people in the 1980s and 1990s, and what HIV means today, at a time when antiretroviral therapies are being used successfully.

More HIV cases surface in Pakistan, 31 test positive in Sindh

Last month 215 cases of HIV, including 181 children, were reported in Pakistan's Ratodero district.

Most probable HIV cure is still far from being the ultimate one

The HIV virus, which infects about 1.8 million people worldwide annually, keeps surprising researchers. So it's best to keep up the fight on all fronts.

This new blue pill is stopping HIV like never before, study shows

An anti-viral pill cut new HIV cases among men by almost a third to the lowest on record, study published in Lancet shows.

On Camera

‘Trade, not aid’—Narasimha Rao’s 1991 reforms speech that changed India’s economic landscape

On 9 July 1991, then-PM PV Narasimha Rao addressed the nation days before the Budget presentation, admitting that the job of repairing India's sick economy won't be easy, quick, or smooth.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.