Under the revised value-added tax law, consumers will pay a 13% levy on items that had been exempted since 1993, when China enforced a strict one-child policy.
Getting quick access to PEP is important because the course must be started within 72 hours of a potential exposure to HIV to be effective. That's the gap the directory aims to fill.
Bengaluru: Eliminating AIDS is a Sisyphian challenge. Treatments mostly miss the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that are hidden in the body. But in a...
Granting patents to US firm Gilead Sciences for lenacapavir could hinder global efforts to end AIDS & restrict access to affordable generics in India, warn civil society organisations.
Lenacapavir, developed by Gilead Sciences, was tested as a pre-exposure prophylaxis in African women & is now being tested in other groups who are among the most vulnerable to HIV.
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.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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