Data showed that Maharashtra reported 1,509 deaths during the period, compared to 1,361 deaths between April 2017 and March 2018. read more

Six Indian states have HIV prevalence that is more than double the national average read more

Of the 10 million new cases reported in 2017, 2.74 million were from India, a marginal decrease from the 2.79 million that the country reported in WHO’s 2017 report. read more

Mizoram had the highest adult HIV prevalence among states in India last year with the infection being detected in 2.04 per cent of the people whose blood samples were tested, a Mizoram State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) official said on Wednesday. read more

Hepatitis B and C infections are transmitted through unscreened blood transfusion, use of contaminated blood and needles, unsafe sex and from an infected mother to her new born read more

Over the years, as the legal challenge to Section 377 winded through a maze of daily hearings and petitions, the LGBT movement branched out into diverse territories -- labour rights, Dalit rights, farmers issues and anti-communal struggles. read more

The Union health ministry, which has previously backed decriminalising homosexuality and said Section 377 acted as an impediment in making high-risk groups such as men-having-sex-with-men (MSM) come forward to access services, said it is expecting a... read more

The Delhi State AIDS Control Society, the state-level authority of NACO, has already released Rs 45 lakh for locally purchasing these medicines for Delhi centres. read more

It will take at least three to four days for supply to normalise, according to senior officials in Delhi’s health department. read more

This development raises concerns of such patients risking their own lives and inadvertently spreading the infection. read more

It will give the failing discipline the priority, energy and momentum it requires read more

The Bihar government is set to terminate the contract of yet another NGO, Wama Shakti Vahini, believed to be a front of Brajesh Kumar Thakur, the main accused in the Muzaffarpur shelter home abuse case in which 34 of 42 girls were allegedly raped. read more

The project is similar to the programme that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) runs to rehabilitate injectable drug users read more