Human Immunodeficiency Virus

World AIDS Day 2021: Some medical and non-medical treatments to help HIV positive patients

There is no effective cure of HIV till now, but several medical and non-medical treatments have proved to be helpful to HIV patients

World AIDS Day 2021: All you need to know about antiretroviral therapy and how it works

Through Anti-retroviral therapy, patients effectively overpower the HIV replication that takes place in the body

COVID-19 vaccine at least a year away: Three other diseases humans learned to live with without vaccines

Here are three deadly diseases which are affecting human life severely but do not have a vaccine yet.

Scientists look for a way to neutralise the HIV threat

Researchers, in a creative leap, are looking at a different, but related, virus to find a way to neutralise the HIV threat.

There might finally be a cure for HIV

Researchers at the American Gene Technologies (AGT), a pharmaceutical company in the US, have claimed that they have developed a permanent cure for HIV.

Here's a refresher course on HIV and the drugs that can help manage it

As indicated by the name - human immunodeficiency virus - the virus attacks the immune system and makes the body more vulnerable to diseases.

CRISPR combined with new ART treatment cures HIV in mice for first time

This new development is the second biggest breakthrough in HIV medicine since antiretroviral treatment itself.

After HIV positive woman kills self in Karnataka lake, villagers demand authorities drain it of water

Villagers at Morab, about 30 kilometres from Hubballi, informed authorities they would not use the lake till fresh water was filled.

HIV patient attempts suicide, poisons daughters' food in Tamil Nadu's Erode district; girls declared dead, father critical

After the neighbours noticed the three lying unconscious, they informed Tamil Nadu police, who rushed to the spot and shifted them to Anthiyur Government Hospital

Act prohibiting discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS in effect from 10 September; law was passed in April 2017

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced the implementation of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Act, 2017 starting 10 September, 2018.