Category Archives: HIV/AIDS
World AIDS Day 2012
December 01, 2012 
Every 1st December is marked as Worlds AIDS Day which is dedicated to raise awareness of AIDS and HIV infection. In year 1995 the President of United States made proclamation of World AIDS Day. Governments of many nations followed the
Truvada approved by US as HIV prevention drug
Truvada has been given approval by the US health regulators as an approved drug for prevention of the HIV infection. Truvada is to be used by those people who are at high risk of contracting the HIV infection. People who
STDs: Sexually Transmitted Diseases to be aware of
Diseases spread through air, water, food, from one person to another, via insects like mosquitoes and flies. Well the point is diseases can spread easily. The environment that we are living, makes us more vulnerable towards catching diseases thus knowledge
F.D.A. Advisory Panel Recommends Approval of Simple H.I.V. Home Test
May 16, 2012: Giving themselves a simple and rapid test for the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS may soon be possible for Americans, as a panel of the experts recommended the approval of the first rapid test for HIV on
HIV prevention pill’s treatment: An issue leading to split between Experts
May 9, 2012: The consumption of Gilead Sciences’ Truvada every day can protect the healthy people from the death causing HIV virus. However, will the patients take the pill daily – is an issue that has divided the AIDS advocates
Obama Appoints Grant Colfax to Lead National AIDS Strategy
March 15, 2012: San Francisco’s top HIV public health administrator, Dr. Grant Colfax was appointed to take charges of the Office of National AIDS Policy as head by the President Obama on Wednesday. Now, Dr. Colfax is accountable for carrying
Joint Efforts of Health Services saved 910,000 lives from HIV, TB
March 7, 2012: The joint efforts of the health services have saved lives of about 910,000 people globally from AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) over a period of six years, according World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO reported that the period
HIV Treatment Become More Easy By HIV Prevention Pill – Truvada
HIV Prevention pill could this be catastrophic? Currently there is a row ongoing in US regarding marketing a drug as HOV prevention pill. Pharmaceutical company which is producing medication Truvada that is already used in HIV treatment, they want it
Groundbreaking Discovery in HIV
American Scientists have unraveled that Human Immunodeficiency Virus appropriate the body’s own defense such that it promotes the disease Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), this is a groundbreaking discovery which can help in curbing the spread of the AIDS. At
