Tag: Hiv

In the first such case, a 36-year-old man in Italy has simultaneously tested positive for monkeypox, Covid-19 and HIV, media reports said.

Although stem cell transplantation is not a therapy for HIV, its effects in patients living with HIV and undergoing therapy for blood or lymph cancers provide researchers with insights and potential targets in HIV treatment.

Bhubaneswar: Like every year hundreds of people gathered early in the morning today at OSAP 7th battalion ground in Bhubaneswar to run for a common cause of creating awareness about HIV AIDS among common people at OTV Mini Marathon organised on the occasion of World AIDS Day. Many well known personalities of Odisha from different […]

Bolangir: Even if Odisha Government claims to have up with several amenities for improvement of health care delivery system, free drugs still eludes HIV patients including children in Bolangir district. It is now over two months that the Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART) centre at the district headquarters hospital (DHH) has no medicine stock for AIDS […]

Berhampur: A five-member doctors’ team visited the blood bank of the MKCG Medical College and Hospital here to begin its probe into the alleged transfusion of HIV-infected blood to a four-year-old thalassemia patient of Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district recently. The team is headed by Berhampur City Hospital ADMO Dr Saroj Mishra. The minor boy, who […]

The Orissa High Court today quashed the agreement between the state government and Rose Medical for supply of five Nucleic Acid Test (NAT) machines to the three government-run medical colleges and hospital in the state and the Capital Hospital here to ensure safety in blood transfusion and thus prevent spread of HIV and Hepatitis through infected blood

New York: Researchers have found that computer simulations can accurately predict the transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) across populations, aiding in preventing the disease. The study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, found that the simulations were consistent with actual DNA data obtained from a global public HIV database. “We looked for special genetic […]

London: Scientists have discovered how HIV virus avoids elimination from the immune system, a finding which could pave the way for the cure for over 40 million people infected worldwide. Currently, HIV can be treated with anti-retroviral therapy, which merely prevents its progression to AIDS, but does not offer the cure. The researchers found that […]

Johannesburg: Scientists have uncovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) directly impacts the brain in the early stages of the infection. It has long been known that many people with HIV also experience negative cognitive symptoms, such as depression and forgetfulness. However, it was unclear whether it was caused by such patients’ physical illness, or […]

New York: Scientists have shown that a novel compound effectively suppresses production of HIV in chronically infected cells and prevents viral rebound. The findings published online in the journal Cell Reports could open the door to a new approach to curing HIV infections. “No other anti-retroviral used in the clinic today is able to completely […]

New York: People living with HIV who adhere to antiretroviral therapy but smoke tobacco cigarettes are more likely to die from lung cancer than from AIDS, a study led by an Indian-origin researcher has revealed. The findings showed that overall people with HIV who take antiviral medicines but who also smoke are six to 13 […]

Washington: US researchers have successfully removed HIV DNA from the genomes of living animals using a gene-editing tool, boosting the confidence of scientists to eliminate the AIDS virus infection in humans. In a new study published in the journal Molecular Therapy, researchers at Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh on Monday reported performing the […]

New Delhi: HIV has taught mankind how to improve its health systems and this knowledge can be used to counter other diseases, professor of medicine at AIIMS, Naveet Wig, has said. Speaking at an interactive session here yesterday, on the eve of the World Aids Day, Wig said: “There is a need to integrate all […]

Scientists studying the evolution of HIV in North America have found evidence that the virus is slowly adapting over time to its human hosts

In patients infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a diabetes drug may have benefits which go beyond lowering blood sugar