Full Coverage: AIDS

30.11.2007 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update a joint report by UNAIDS and WHO comes as a reprieve. The new report reveals that the epidemic has slowed down in recent times and that the dreaded HIV virus has actually not infected as many people as it was earlier feared.

29.11.2007 A report by the United Nations World Food Programme, released ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, highlights links between hunger, poor health and HIV/AIDS. Life-saving drugs are more effective when people are well nourished and healthy, the report says.

28.11.2007 A new report by Oxfam says that more than 85% people in the world have no access to medicines due to high pricing. Developing medicines only for the rich is a bad business strategy, as also the scant interest shown by pharmaceutical companies in research and development of medicines for diseases that affect the poor in developing countries, says the report.

22.11.2007 Ten vans will travel to the remote interiors of Tamil Nadu, IndiaÂ’s southern state, to help people test for HIV/AIDS in a programme supported by the Red Cross Societies. According to National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), India has 2.5 million people infected by the virus.

21.11.2007 An intensive reassessment of data by India earlier this year has emerged as a single biggest reason for reduction in the global HIV prevalence figures. A report, 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update, released by the UNAIDS on November 20, says the number of people living with the dreaded virus has drastically come down to 33 million from a previous estimation of nearly 40 million.

02.11.2007 The final report of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) 2005-06 offers the first-ever comprehensive picture of the health and well-being of IndiaÂ’s men, women and children. The report was released last month by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the capital, New Delhi.

01.11.2007 A look inside a school for Ugandan AIDS orphans demonstrates how fighting AIDS is linked to efforts to fight poverty and improve education, health care, and gender rights.