The Madurai bench of Madras High Court has ruled that venereal disease and HIV positive are the same condition while granting divorce to a man whose wife was HIV positive.
April 26 2013, 1:35 pm
Read MoreThe number of Chinese students registered as infected with HIV is on the rise, with homosexual transmission becoming the major cause of new infections, an official here said today.
March 30 2013, 5:11 pm
Read MoreA doctor has poured cold water on what was termed ‘the greatest medical breakthrough of the century’ about a Mississippi baby being cured of HIV with a dose of heavy antiretroviral treatments. Dr Mark Siedner, a research fellow in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital has raised the
March 15 2013, 11:48 am
Read MoreIn what could be termed the biggest medical breakthrough in the last century, a baby born with the AIDS virus has been cured of the diseases after following an aggressive regime of drugs. This is the second documented case of a person being completely cured of the virus after an adult known as the
March 4 2013, 10:57 am
Read MoreA city-based diagnostic clinic has been ordered by a consumer forum to pay Rs 2.05 lakh as damages to a 25-year-old youth for wrongly diagnosing him as HIV-positive.
January 14 2013, 1:34 pm
Read MoreHow is the disease diagnosed? The only way to diagnose HIV is to take a test which looks for signs of the virus in the blood. Presence of the virus in the blood is termed as HIV positive (HIV+). If no signs of the virus are found in the blood, the result is considered negative. It is diagnosed on
December 5 2012, 8:25 am
Read MoreThe Gujarat HC on Wednesday decided to suo motu proceed with a PIL seeking a change in the testing method to detect HIV.
September 26 2012, 11:57 pm
Read MoreAfter the identity of an HIV-infected member was disclosed in a letter sent by the state government a family of five has been socially ostracised in a Rajasthan village, a social activist said. The family, comprising an HIV-positive husband, his wife and three children, has been displaced from
December 14 2012, 7:22 pm
Read More"Hazaribagh in Jharkhand." These are the words HIV positive Roohi, 20, has been repeating since she was found writhing in labour pain at the New Delhi Railway Station two months ago. Abandoned by her in-laws, the woman went from the streets to the hospitals, ending up at a shelter for homeless and
November 19 2012, 8:51 pm
Read MoreA group of 150 children -- some of whom toiled in difficult labour conditions till recently and some of whom were trafficked as bonded labourers -- joined the run enthusiastically.
September 30 2012, 2:29 pm
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