The Supreme Court asked the government on Thursday to explain why it had failed to meet its target of providing free drugs for 100,000 HIV-positive people by 2005 and on what basis it delayed the objective by two years.
“What’s the difficulty? Why was the target year shifted?” the three-member bench, headed by the Chief Justice […]
The city administration is expanding health services in the city for injecting drug users (IDUs) and people living with HIV/AIDS.
About 30 Puskesmas or community health centers will provide service information, voluntarily counseling and testing (VCT), antiretroviral (ARV) medicine and methadone maintenance treatment.
Currently, these services can be found only at nine hospitals in Jakarta, which are […]
Masturbating for charity – it was a new one on us. So whose idea was it? What was the purpose? Who would turn up? And what would happen in real life, when the doors to the Wank-a-thon were finally declared open? There was only one way to get the real SP on what promised to […]
As new medical treatments and drugs are developed, volunteers are needed for clinical trials to help ensure that treatments are safe and effective. A clinical trial is a research study to test a new drug, device or treatment strategy on humans. Advances in medical treatments have occurred because of the application of new knowledge gained […]
Federal health officials urged doctors Wednesday to offer HIV and other tests to patients who received transplanted tissues collected by a body parts broker in North Carolina.
The Food and Drug Administration investigation is the second involving tainted tissue this year and led the agency earlier in the day to announce the creation of a task […]
MEN who have unprotected oral sex with other men have been urged to use condoms and get regular blood tests after a dramatic rise in rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
Sexual health experts say the rate of gonorrhoea and syphilis among men have not been so high since the early 1980s. A new generation of young […]
More than 600 pregnant women and new mothers are being recalled to hospitals after it emerged that blood tests for diseases such as HIV were not carried out.
The National Blood Service (NBS) confirmed that 627 women in the north of England had been contacted about their tests for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B.
The introduction of […]
“Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me,” says John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (played by Johnny Depp), direct to camera at the start of The Libertine. The film then spends nearly two hours proving him right.
We begin circa 1678, when John is summoned from his countryside home to […]
Infectious disease spread continues to devastate many areas of the world. Many regions continue to struggle with high mortality and infection rates, as well as limited funding and resources. Healthcare programs that integrate cost-effective and manageable solutions, in conjunction with patient education, that encourage taking medications properly will inevitably lead to the reduction of disease […]
The rate of AIDS patients in the country is increasing rapidly and at present the average rate of increase is 35 per cent, heath experts said.
Among the truck and bus drivers and helpers, 80 per cent go to the brothels with floating sex workers regularly. About 20 per cent sex workers do not use condoms […]
