Lack of certified centres to provide training in skin piercing and no support from the government and the medical association poses difficulties for a newbie to take up tattooing as a career. This not only affects the artists but makes the industry remain an unidentified and latent source of the spread of infections.
Additional Chief Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, PK Mohapatra in an official letter to the District authorities asked the Collectors, Municipal Commissioners, Chief District Medical (CDM) and Public Health Officers (PHO) to vaccinate all eligible people living with HIV (irrespective of CD4 count and viral load).
The initiative is supported by National Health Mission (NHM).
The plea, listed for hearing on March 12 next year, has contended that the two governments and NACO had assured the high court that there would be no shortage of ARV drugs in future.
Rajya Sabha passed the bill in March that criminalises discrimination against patients suffering Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a condition caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) , which attacks and weakens the body’s immune system. Here is all you need to know about the act:
Doctors have called for greater efforts to stop the spread of an ancient virus infecting residents across Australia's Northern Territory, the media reported on Tuesday.
An ingestible “mini pill box”, which releases a cocktail of HIV drugs in the stomach over several days, is a potential step towards reducing the burden of daily pill-taking, scientists
Neighbouring Karnataka has set up a NAT lab where samples from all government hospitals are collected and rewports are emailed 247.
Researchers from University of South Carolina (USC) in the US identified a novel human protein variant that can be targeted to prevent the human immunodeficiency virus from harming HIV-positive individuals.
The regime, aimed at newly diagnosed TB and human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients, will be launched within the next couple of days in the district.
Up to 45 per cent of HIV-infected mothers will transmit the virus to their child, usually through breastfeeding, researchers said.
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