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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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
