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Category: HIV infection

Posted on July 2, 2019

More to be done for self-care in sexual and reproductive health in India

India has some distance to go before self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health becomes freely available to women in need. Unlike home-based pregnancy testing, hurdles remain in accessing abortion…

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Posted on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019

Explainer: Why is China laying down gene editing rules?

Dr. He’s experiment violates the 2003 guidelines that prohibits the use of gene-manipulated embryos for reproductive purposes. China has posted the draft regulation requiring researchers to obtain prior approval from…

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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 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 11, 2016December 1, 2016

HIV self-testing: ‘The benefits far outweigh the risks to society’

    The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test was recently approved by the FDA advisory committee for sale over the counter. FDA regulators will take a decision in a few months’…

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Posted on January 7, 2016

Editorial: Gene therapy offers fresh hope

Published in The Hindu on December 14, 2011 While a quarter century of single-minded effort to find an efficacious HIV vaccine has met with only a limited success, a team…

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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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Posted on January 7, 2016

Editorial: AIDS vaccine – a ray of hope

Published in The Hindu on September 24, 2011 The search for an effective AIDS vaccine began a quarter-century ago and after a series of failures, there finally appears some reason…

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