AIDS vaccine: Chennai trial results encouraging
Published In The Hindu on January 24, 2008 There appears to be a greater possibility of finding an efficacious AIDS vaccine. The preliminary results of the Phase I trial of…
Category: HIV/AIDS
Was the start of Phase II AAV AIDS vaccine trials in Africa in 2005 justified?
Published in The Hindu on December 20, 2007 During the beginning of this year, many questions were raised on why the AIDS vaccine trial in Pune was started on February…
AIDS: AAV vaccine will not undergo further testing
Published in The Hindu on November 29, 2007 The Phase I of the country’s first AIDS vaccine trial conducted at the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune, has been completed…
Editorial: A pioneering effort on HIV
Published in The Hindu on November 20, 2007 In another pioneering effort to battle the HIV epidemic in the State, the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TNSACS) will soon…
Editorial: HIV awareness in the workplace
Published in The Hindu on August 9, 2007 While the role played by the government and non-governmental organisations in creating awareness among the public and bringing HIV/AIDS under control is…
Editorial: Expanding access to HIV testing
Published in The Hindu on July 4, 2007 The new guidelines issued recently by the World Health Organisation to expand access to HIV testing mark a paradigm shift in the…
Studying the prevalence of HIV in TB patients
Published in The Hindu on March 22, 2007 Even as “Difficulties in working alongside the better-funded efforts to tackle AIDS permeate many aspects of TB prevention, treatment and research ……
Editorial: A significant pilot study
Published in The Hindu on March 21, 2007 Tamil Nadu has been in the forefront in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention and control measures since the early 1990s and the latest initiative…
