‘COVID-19 brought realization of scale of NTDs, but also obscured them’

July 12, 2023

Dr Kishor Wasan is a Co-Director and Co-Founder, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia. He is credited with developing an...

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Gene mutation that cures HIV

April 6, 2023

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Only 20 percent of people in the world carry CCR5-delta 32, a specific mutation that is known to make its carriers almost immune to HIV A 53-year-old German...

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‘Tuberculosis has been known to mankind since 20,000 years ago’

March 24, 2023

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Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva is the Regional Director for South East Asia of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The Union), a global...

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A woman dies every two minutes due to maternity health issues: report

March 1, 2023

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The leading causes of maternal deaths are severe bleeding, high blood pressure, pregnancy related infections, complications from unsafe abortions, and...

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Dar-es-Salaam Declaration: 12 African countries vow to eradicate AIDS by 2030

February 3, 2023

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The first ministerial meeting of the Global Alliance to end AIDS in children held in Tanzanian capital marks a step up in action to ensure that all children...

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In a first, Italian man tests positive for Monkeypox, COVID-19, HIV

August 26, 2022

The man was in Spain between June 16 and 20, where he had unprotected sex with other men. Nine days later, he developed a fever and suffered from a sore...

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Bleak lives: Women and children with HIV

April 26, 2022

Forty six percent of the 1.7 million children infected with HIV in 2020 had no access to life-saving treatments. HIV has infected more than 75 million people...

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AIDS is not a ‘chemical toxin’ or a ‘scam on gays’

December 1, 2021

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World AIDS Day: Misinformation about the infection continues to spread on several social media platforms, misleading people about the nature of this oft...