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Topic: AIDS

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.

India is winning the battle against HIV, but poor sex workers are slowing it down

India has registered a steep decline in new cases as well as HIV-related deaths, but a study has warned that sex workers remain vulnerable to the deadly virus.

On Camera

After losing no.2 carmaker spot, Hyundai is betting big on the new Venue

Indian car buyers are just as tech-obsessed as their Chinese counterparts, and that obsession has taken precedence over handling and performance.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.