-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For bringing down prices of medicines for critical diseases like cancer, HIV and diabetes, the government has revised the national list of essential medicines (NLEM) to add 106 more drugs while 70 other drugs, which are not prescribed frequently or where better alternatives are now available in the market, have been taken off the list. This means, the total number of essential medicines, prices of which...
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HIV cases dip, high-risk groups still a worry -Malathy Iyer & Sumitra Deb Roy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: When World AIDS Day is observed across the globe on December 1, India will enter the third, and perhaps the most perplexing decade of its HIVAIDS epidemic. The first 29 years were marked with victory as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) metamorphosed from being the deadliest word in public health to just another chronic disease such as diabetes or hypertension. that can be managed well with medicines....
More »Hepatitis C cure may cost as low as Rs 67k -Reema Nagarajan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a move that comes as a huge relief to patients of chronic Hepatitis C, the apex committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted a waiver of local trials for crucial new direct-acting antiviral drugs treating the disease. The waiver for sofosbuvir and ledipasvir co-formulation and for daclatasvir is expected to bring the generic version of these drugs, which cost a fraction...
More »Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, UNAIDS, speaks to Vidya Krishnan
-The Hindu We need to take AIDS out of isolation and look at it in a broader framework, with links to maternal and child health, says Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS. Speaking on the sidelines of the India Africa Forum Summit, Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, UNAIDS, admitted to being ‘scared’ as pressure mounts on India to relax norms, allowing patent protection. In a conversation with Vidya Krishnan, Mr. Sidibe also spoke...
More »26 lakh TB patients in India; Nearly 42,000 died in 2013-14
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: There are around 26 lakh tuberculosis patients in India while the estimated mortality attributable to the disease is 2.4 lakh, minister of state for health Shripad Naik told Rajya Sabha on Thursday quoting estimates of World Health Organisation. He also said the numbers of patients who died at Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) centres during the 2013-14 was 41,956. "According to the World Health Organization, the estimated number of...
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