Topic: India
Tens of thousands of HIV-affected households in Asia are facing "irreversible poverty" because of the cost of living with the disease, with women and children hardest hit, a UN report said Thursday.Catastrophic healthcare costs and the loss of employment opportunities due to ...
New HIV infections are falling in Asia, with India, the country with the biggest population of infected people in the region, reporting a 56 percent plunge from the epidemic's peak, the United Nations said Monday."In South and South-east Asia, the estimated 270,000 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.The Medicines ...
A scheme in six Indian states that concentrated safe-sex campaigns on a few niche groups prevented 100,000 HIV infections over five years, according to estimates published in The Lancet on Tuesday.The so-called Avahan project was launched in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, ...
European governments are threatening to break off negotiations with India on a free-trade deal the EU had hoped would be worth 175 billion euros a year, an EU report revealed on Tuesday.Four years after talks began with New Delhi, frustrated European Union ...
India's success in slashing HIV/AIDS infection rates by 50 percent in the last decade masks a high rate of infection among homosexual and transgender people, experts say.This anomaly was highlighted last month by the country's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in a ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has promised not to link a proposed trade deal with the European Union with limiting its production of generic HIV/AIDS drugs, the United Nations said on Thursday, giving hope to millions of infected patients but underlining the ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to its trade deal with the European Union, the head of UNAIDS warned on Tuesday.The ...
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday hailed the country's success in slashing new HIV/AIDS infections by half in the past decade, but warned against complacency."Our HIV/AIDS programme can justifiably claim a measure of success," he told a conference in New Delhi ...
Radhe Shyam looks every inch the family man as he cradles his chubby, four-month-old baby in his arms and glances lovingly at his wife and two other daughters.Shyam, his wife and one of his three daughters, however, are HIV positive. The couple's ...
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