HIV and AIDS infections have shown a sharp rise in Jammu and Kashmir. Official records say HIV/AIDS cases have shot up from two in 1999 to 745 now, reports Grassroots Features.
Although the state lies in a low prevalence risk zone, with an infection rate among the high-risk and low-risk groups standing at 0.95 percent and […]
PFIZER, the world’s biggest drugs company, has appointed Jeffrey Kindler as its next chief executive, ushering Hank McKinnnell into early retirement.
Kindler, a former McDonald’s executive, was previously Pfizer’s general counsel. The appointment of a lawyer to the top job may indicate the changing priorities in the pharmaceutical industry. In common with many leading companies, Pfizer […]
Heat resistant anti-retroviral HIV- AIDS drugs manufactured in the United States have arrived in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders), said.
The new version of the fixed-dose combination lopinavir/ritonavir (CPV/R), marketed as Kaletra by Abbott Laboratories, was approved for use last October.
On March 15 MSF had placed an order for the […]
South African Ben Sassman admits his bid to help a lonely friend living with HIV started out as a “feel-good project for myself” but is now an online dating service reaching people around the globe.
“The Positive Connection”, in its third year, can even claim success in the matchmaking game, having brought together a few solid […]
Health authorities are calling for a repeal of a 145-year-old law that makes gay sex a crime, fearing it is causing HIV and AIDS to spread quickly in India’s homosexual community, officials said Wednesday.
The government’s main AIDS prevention agency has filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, supporting a request by an AIDS activist […]
One of the country’s top AIDS researchers and an expert in international health will lead Duke University’s new Global Health Institute, one of several recent moves that puts the school at the forefront of HIV research.
Dr. Michael H. Merson, former director of the
World Health Organization’s AIDS program and a professor at Yale University, will take […]
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan encouraged executives from nine drug companies on Monday to lower prices of AIDS medicines and step up efforts to develop AIDS drugs and diagnostics for children.
Annan for the first time included generic drug makers in his latest in a series of meetings with top drug makers at U.N. headquarters over the […]
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Contraindications include:
* When taking nitric oxide donors, organic nitrites and nitrates, such as glyceryl trinitrate, sodium nitroprusside, amyl nitrite (”poppers”)[5]
* In men for whom sexual intercourse is inadvisable due to cardiovascular risk factors
* Severe hepatic impairment (decreased liver function)
* […]
In ancient Greek society, prostitutes were independent and sometimes influential women who were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes. Some similarities have been found between the Greek hetaera and the Japanese geisha, complex figures that are perhaps in an intermediate position between prostitution and courtisanerie. (See also the Indian tawaif.) Some […]
