In a bizarre incident, a 9-year-old has undergone an HIV test after accidentally stabbing himself with a syringe in the beach sand at Boscombe, near Bournemouth, UK. According to his dad, he was taken to the hospital to have tests done to see if the needle was contaminated and it’ll be eight weeks until they get the results.
In a rare incident, a patient has cleared functional HIV infection without outside help. This may the first known instance of a spontaneous cure. According to reports, over 1-5 billion cells of this patient was analysed and it showed no functional HIV copies in any of them. However, the person still has some non-functional copies of the virus.
Scientists have predicted a surge in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria deaths in low- and middle-income countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but add that this toll can be reduced by prioritising the most critical services, such as timely diagnosis and treatment for these diseases.
A group of HIV-infected persons has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include them in the Centre's flagship health protection scheme -- Ayushman Bharat.
Marking World Aids Day, the WHO on Sunday called for a broader public awareness campaign in Afghanistan to deal with the issue, reports TOLO News.
The researchers from the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) noted that the average age of menopause in Canada and the United States is between 50 and 52 years. Based on earlier studies, they said that women living with HIV are at an increased possibility of experiencing early age (between 40 and 45 years) and premature age (less than 40 years) menopause
The dental surgery department of the hospital was shut down for disinfection on Monday after the incident was reported.
Cases of rape of minor girls and missing children rocked the Odisha Assembly on Monday as the opposition demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the issue.
A city civil court has directed the dean of the Institute of Child Health and Hospital here to pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to a boy for transfusion of HIV-infected blood after surgery.
Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane, who is also a Minister for Law, said that the proposal to make HIV testing compulsory before marriage was being vetted by the Law Department.
Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the study analysed information from a large health insurance database.
"Between April 1 last year and February this year, 2,460 people have died (of HIV infection) in Maharashtra.
"These affordable generic medicines have helped scale up access to treatment across developing countries," Tripathi, a First Secretary in India's UN mission, told the General Assembly on Monday.
As of Monday, 700 people including 576 children were tested positive for HIV since the outbreak was first reported on April 25.
A UK-based male patient's HIV has become "undetectable" following a stem cell transplant -- in only the second case of its kind in the world, scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher reported on Tuesday in a study published in the journal Nature.
Similarly, an American man Timothy Brown, who came to be known as the Berlin patient when he underwent a similar treatment for HIV in 2007, which led to similar results. Brown has been HIV-free ever since.
The affected woman, said to be in her 20s, told a Tamil TV channel Friday she underwent the transfusion in April while being pregnant.
World AIDS Day 2018: From causes, prevention to treatment, here's everything you should know about HIV AIDS.
Previous study with female sex workers showed that the HPV vaccine still provided protection to high-risk groups.
According to the report, Andhra Pradesh (2.70 lakh), Karnataka (2.47 lakh) and Telangana (2.04 lakh) were the other states with high prevalence of PLHIV.
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