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’…
Category: HIV/AIDS
Editorial: A step closer to HIV prevention
Published in The Hindu on January 11, 2012 Time and again, HIV vaccine trials have proved right the dictum, ‘monkeys lie and mice do not always tell the truth’.…
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…
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…
Phase-I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial shows modest immune response
Published in The Hindu on September 12, 2011 The final results of the Phase I prime-boost AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) vaccine trial started in February 2009 and conducted at…
Editorial: What ails public health research?
Published in The Hindu on May 2, 2011 Why has the incidence of tuberculosis in India remained around 170 per 100,000 people for the last 20 years despite DOTS, the…
Dedicated lab for HIV vaccine design
Published in The Hindu on March 3, 2011 After conducting a couple of AIDS vaccine trials in India, the New York based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is shifting its…
AIDS vaccine trial: prime-boost elicits modest immune response
Published in The Hindu on September 30, 2010 The preliminary results of the Phase I prime-boost AIDS vaccine trial started in February 2009 and conducted at the Tuberculosis Research Centre…
