-Press release by World Health Organisation dated 27 October, 2022 An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from TB (including 187 000 among HIV positive people), according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3% between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases...
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‘Playing with the lives of HIV patients’: Drug shortages force many to change medication regime -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in Taking available medicines instead of what has been prescribed could lead to drug resistance and even death. Nongmeikapam Dusmanta, a retired government employee from the water resources department in Manipur, has battled with HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, for over two decades. He has seen the evolution of India’s battle against AIDS – acquired immune deficiency syndrome, an HIV-led disease that severely damages the immune system – from a time when there...
More »On Covid patents waiver, health cannot be held hostage to profit -Rajshree Chandra
-The Indian Express Innovation in vaccine production can have an impact only if it is accessible to all. Patents and access to life-saving drugs has always been an emotive and contentious issue. The right to healthy life is a moral minimum, and to find a rational basis to deny it is deeply offensive to the idea of life itself. At the same time, pharma corporations and institutions claim patents are a just...
More »Coronavirus: China trial found no benefit in HIV Drugs, says study -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express At 22.1 per cent, the mortality reported in the trial was substantially higher than the 11 per cent to 14.5 per cent mortality reported in initial studies of patients hospitalised with novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a study. The results of a 199-subject trial in China on the efficacy of HIV Drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir that India was looking at eagerly, has come out negative. At 22.1 per cent, the...
More »Punjab: After drugs, AIDS scare; In 5 years, 34 per cent rise -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express The increase has been continuous with 5543 cases detected in 2015-16, followed by 5987 case in 2016-17. In 2017-18, the figure stood at 6730. These numbers of HIV patients are as per Punjab State AIDS Control Society. Ludhiana: In five years, total number of HIV cases detected in Punjab have seen a 34 per cent rise, with the number increasing with each passing year. The National AIDS Control...
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