Home » hiv

You Searched For "HIV"

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Microbirthing can harm babies

23 Aug 2017 2:42 PM IST

A scanning electron micrograph of multiple round bumps of the HIV-1 virus on a cell surfaceRepresentational Image. (Photo: AP)

New method to track HIV infection developed

This could help scientists what the virus needs to do to infect a cell.

21 Aug 2017 1:12 PM IST

Approach from the Northwestern Medicine scientists allowed the behaviour of individual virions, infectious particles, to be connected to infectivity. (Photo: Pixabay)

Better therapies may be in offing with novel HIV tracking approach

Research used novel live-cell fluorescent imaging system that allowed them to identify individual particles associated...

19 Aug 2017 10:29 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Vaginal bleeding taboo endangers women's health: study

Here are some of the facts women need to be aware of.

1 Aug 2017 2:23 PM IST

Its not necessary for the baby to get HIV if the mother has the disease.

Only 21 babies of 1000 HIV+ moms affected

HIV diagnosis in adults is done as per strategy III of National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) guidelines.

1 Aug 2017 2:38 AM IST

Twenty-three countries currently have national regulations that support HIV self-testing (Photo: AFP)

Self testing for HIV patients promoted by WHO

HIV self-testing involves the use of oral Fluid or finger pricks to determine an individual's personal HIV status in a...

30 Nov 2016 6:23 PM IST

Despite treatment advances that have slashed AIDS deaths, around 1.9 million people still catch HIV each year (Photo: AFP)

Implants to prevent HIV for a year being tested

Injections to protect vulnerable groups such as gay men and women in Africa for at least two months also being...

30 Nov 2016 11:11 AM IST

On average it takes almost four years before an HIV infection is diagnosed and reported. (Photo: AP)

1 in 7 with HIV in Europe unaware of infection

People who do not know they are infected cannot benefit from life-saving treatment, and can continue to transmit the...

29 Nov 2016 3:31 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

It's raining needles': Drug crisis creates pollution threat

Syringes left by drug users amid the heroin crisis are turning up in open spaces across the US.

17 July 2017 12:39 PM IST

The woman had earlier appealed to the government to grant her permission to terminate the pregnancy when it was 17 weeks. (Representational Image)

SC rejects abortion plea of HIV+ rape victim, orders Bihar to pay...

Earlier the apex court had directed AIIMS to examine the woman, who is 26 weeks pregnant.

9 May 2017 3:19 PM IST

A vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS has come closer to reality after a recent study found that the immune system may keep body from neutralizing HIV-1 virus (Photo: Pixabay)

Body's immune system helping HIV?

Researchers say body's own immune system might be getting in the way of neutralizing the HIV-1 virus.

12 July 2017 2:48 PM IST

The team coated nanoparticles with the antibody to BSA, or bovine serum albumin, which is commonly used as the basis of a variety of diagnostic tests to help detect AIDS and Syphillis faster. (Photo: Pixabay)

New method may lead to faster diagnosis of HIV

Using nanocience and a magnetic phenomenon can give faster results to patients

20 Jan 2017 1:53 PM IST