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Category: ART

Posted on May 3, 2017May 3, 2017

India to treat all HIV positive people irrespective of CD4 count

Two years after the World Health Organisation recommended that antiretroviral therapy (ART) be initiated in people living with HIV irrespective of the CD4 cell (a type of white blood cell)…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: Irrational prejudice against HIV

That India still has no anti-discrimination law to protect the interests of HIV positive people shows how little the nation as a whole cares about them and how callous society…

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Posted on January 12, 2016

Editorial: Too early to cheer on HIV

Published in The Hindu on March 14, 2013 It is too early to celebrate the recent news of a breakthrough in the treatment of a baby infected with HIV. Despite…

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Posted on January 12, 2016

Was U.S. baby infected with HIV at all?

Published in The Hindu on March 7, 2013 A few days after the news broke of a “functional cure” in a HIV-positive Mississippian baby aged two-and-a-half, many questions have been…

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Posted on January 12, 2016February 9, 2016

Pilot project to test TB drug as prophylactic to HIV-infected

Published in The Hindu on December 15, 2012 The Chennai-based National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly Tuberculosis Research Centre) has started a pilot testing programme of providing for six…

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Posted on January 11, 2016

Interim results of TB vaccine trial expected soon

Published in The Hindu on September 13, 2012 The preliminary results of the much anticipated Phase II TB vaccine trial conducted in 240 individuals who are HIV positive and those…

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Posted on January 11, 2016May 2, 2017

Starting ART early prevents tuberculosis

That starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in discordant couples, where one of the two partners is HIV positive, results in 96 per cent reduction in sexual HIV transmission became clear after…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Editorial: A hero — but no magic this

Published in The Hindu on November 15, 2011 If discrimination against people infected with HIV continues to be a major problem even today, despite innumerable initiatives to remove the stigma…

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