Reaffirming India’s commitment to accelerating progress toward ending Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) will observe the national-level commemoration of World AIDS Day 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, in the national capital on Monday.
HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are on the rise in the Western Pacific region, reversing years of progress in the fight against the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
Even as the Government of Tripura issued a clarification on misleading reports of HIV cases in the state, health experts on Wednesday said that it “is just the tip of the iceberg.”
An AIDS awareness programme was organised by NSS unit of Rajganj College in Jalpaiguri to commemorate Red Ribbon Day as symbol of solidarity in the fight against HIV at the college premises on Friday.
We could also save several more from getting HIV infections during the past two decades. But the country of 1.43 billion people in 28 states and 9 union territories spread over 3.3 million square km of land, has its own challenges.
In Asia and the Pacific ~ the world’s most populous region ~ UNAIDS data now shows new HIV infections are rising where they had been falling.
Uganda is striving to consolidate the country's gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS despite the impact of Covid-19, a senior health official said.
The theme for the World AIDS Day 2021 is "End inequalities. End AIDS".
Informing about this, a state government official said the government had launched a decisive campaign against AIDS with the goal of three zero which includes zero infection, zero death and zero discrimination.
Reports said the woman, a resident of Kaimur district, was returning home by the Patna-Bhabhua intercity express on Monday night when two youths got into her bogey, locked it from inside and allegedly took turns to rape her.
